Sheltered Lives Quotes

• I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.

  Adam Rickitt

  Country, Nice, School

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• My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about

  Anita Hill

  Parent, Embarrassing, Difficult

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• Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Encouragement, Fear

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• You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.

  Anais Nin

  Believe, World, Picnics

  "The Diary of Anais Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)". Book by Anais Nin, 1969.

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• A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

  Eudora Welty

  Happiness, Freedom, Curiosity

  1984 One Writer's Beginnings, III. 'Finding a Voice'.

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• Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Brother, Believe, Heart

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• A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

  C. S. Lewis

  Motivational, Strong, Lying

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• I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of going out there and playing football.

  John Cale

  Football, Teenage, Years

  "Of Anger and Twitching: An Interview with John Cale". Interview with Andrew Phillips, www.popmatters.com. January 09, 2006.

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• I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

  R. L. Stine

  Home, Writing, Happens

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• I’m beginning to think I’ve led a much too sheltered life.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Thinking

  Diana Wynne Jones (2008). “House of Many Ways”, p.31, HarperCollins UK

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• I led a sheltered life. I didn't know how to book a flight.

  Paul Young

  Book, Flight, Know How

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I led such a sheltered life I didn't go out with girls until I was almost four.

  Bob Hope

  Girl, Four

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.

  Leona Lewis

  Mom, Dad, Feels

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.

  Sarah Palin

  Independent, University Degrees, Common Sense

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• But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado,sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life,and dropping her down in the midst of this still,haunted desolation.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Clouds, Storm, World

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.550, Simon and Schuster

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