Quotes with shelter

  • We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.

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  • Buddha On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Alexander Cockburn A ''just war'' is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • Adam Sedgwick As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
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  • Victor Hugo Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Armistead Maupin I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel If we had no hope - for a cure, for winning the lottery, for falling in love, for the end of war, for being free of abuse, or for having food, warmth, clothing, and shelter - we would have no reason to go on. What you hope for doesn't matter, but rather the essence of hope itself.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robert South It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done.
    Robert South
    English churchman (1634 - 1716)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Bob Harper It just kills me when people buy a dog when there are dogs in shelters. I still get emotional when I think of Karl sitting in that shelter. I wasn't looking. I didn't even think I had time for a dog, and then I met this little one and he needed help. It's been so amazing to see him transform into a happy and confident companion.
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Aldous Huxley Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • William Cowper Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Bruce Springsteen People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Brande Roderick That's why I wanted to be part of this AIDS Project Los Angeles party. We help raise funds for those who are having a tough time with some very basic necessities, like shelter, food, and medical care.
    Brande Roderick
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Bernard Tschumi The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
    Bernard Tschumi
    French-Swiss architect, writer, and educator (1944 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Fay Weldon We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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  • Bruce Dickinson When you cut human beings down to size, we're really quite simple creatures; food, shelter, warmth, light, heat and you build it up from there really until you finally go Gucci shoes or whatever it is or whatever your consumer desires are. All those desires are ultimately, they're about gratification.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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