Shelter Quotes:

When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.

- Alice Morse Earle

source: Alice Morse Earle (2012). “Home Life in Colonial Days”, p.1, Courier Corporation

topic: Shelter, Firsts, Unbearable, Settlers

A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.

- Alice Munro

topic: Stories, Shelter, Sturdy

What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.

- Aloe Blacc

source: "Aloe Blacc Discusses His Grand Scheme to Get Some Dollars". Interview with Brandon Deroche, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2011.

topic: Needs, Shelter, Entertainment

Come! let us take a moment's shelter under some roof Look! there - before you, a little way off There is an empty space Between truth and falsehood.

- Amrita Pritam

topic: Space, Looks, Shelter

It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple.

- Anatol Rapoport

source: "Architecture and Order: Approaches to Social Space" by Michael Parker Pearson, ‎Colin Richards, (p. 49), 2003.

topic: Dwelling, Purpose, Shelter

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

- Armistead Maupin

topic: Fiction, Shelter, Recycling

A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.

- Barack Obama

topic: Dog, Mutts, Shelter

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

- Barbara Tuchman

topic: Library, Shelter, Muse

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.

- Ben Nicholson

topic: Book, Body, Shelter, Huts

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

source: Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.247, MIT Press

topic: Eye, Shelter, Bricks, Bricks And Mortar, General Public

The ultimate goal of Bhakti is to get Krishna and we get it by taking shelter of the holy name.

- Bhakti Charu Swami

topic: Names, Goal, Shelter, Bhakti, Ultimate Goal

The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.

- Bill Mollison

source: "An introduction to permaculture". Book by Bill Mollison, 1991.

topic: Garden, Needs, Shelter, Productions, Systemic Change

Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !

- Bruce H. Lipton

topic: Survival, Shelter, Instinct

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

- Charles de Gaulle

topic: Strong, Silence, Shelter

The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of a control-based life, protected by walls of cynicism, judgment, and blame.

- Charles Eisenstein

source: Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.32, North Atlantic Books

topic: Wall, Shelter, Lovers, Interbeing

God presents the Sabbath rest as a shelter we can enter. (Hebrews 4:1-11)

- Charles R. Swindoll

topic: Shelter, Hebrew, Sabbath

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Music, Clothes, Shelter, Art And Music, Christian Music

Of course, one of the main legitimate functions of thought has always been to help provide security, guaranteeing shelter and food for instance. However, this function went wrong when the principle source of insecurity came to be the operation of thought itself.

- David

topic: Insecurity, Principles, Shelter

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

- David Duchovny

topic: Essentials, Shelter

Nothing that has value, real value, has no cost. Not freedom, not food, not shelter, not healthcare.

- Dean Kamen

topic: Real, Cost, Shelter

Welcome thy neighbor into thy fallout shelter. He'll come in handy if you run out of food.

- Dean McLaughlin

topic: Running, Shelter, Welcome, Fallouts, Handy

Mo Nighean donn," he whispered," mo chridhe. My brown lass, my heart." Come to me. Cover me. Shelter me. a bhean, heal me. Burn with me, as I burn for you.

- Diana Gabaldon

topic: Heart, Shelter, Brown

The average family pays more in taxes than it spends on food, clothing, and shelter combined.

- Dick Armey

topic: Average, Shelter, Libertarian

The woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.

- Edith Stein

topic: Soul, Shelter, May

Trees that, like the poplar, lift upward all their boughs, give no shade and no shelter, whatever their height. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us, when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits, the lower drop their boughs.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Giving, Tree, Shelter

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

- Emma Thompson

topic: Rights, Needs, Shelter, Basic Human Rights

Marriage to Fernando offered shelter and security, but the shackle was the price I'd pay.

- Esther Williams

topic: Marriage, Shelter, Pay, Shackles

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection

- Frederick Douglass

topic: Covering, Shelter, Deeds, Barbarity, Slaveholders

If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

topic: Deep Thought, Earth, Shelter, Brothers Karamazov

The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

topic: Destiny, Storm, Shelter

The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

- George Eliot

topic: Sympathy, Heart, Shelter

If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.

- George McGovern

topic: Winning, Bombs, Shelter, Bomb Shelters

Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap.

- Gerard Manley Hopkins

topic: Shelter, Fool, Crystals

I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter.

- Girolamo Savonarola

source: "The Life Of Girolamo Savonarola". Book by Roberto Ridolfi, 1952.

topic: Shelter, Break, Hailstorms

Be true in your relationship with the Sovereign Creator, for He is the greatest one with whom you could relate in all your affairs and states. Know that He cares for those who turn to Him; relieves difficulties for them; is there for them in every circumstance, condition and change; and He shelters them in His Mercy, Grace, Pardon and Forgiveness.

- Habib Umar bin Hafiz

topic: Grace, Care, Shelter

The man with the knapsack is never lost. No matter whither he may stray, his food and shelter are right with him, and home is wherever he may choose to stop.

- Horace Kephart

topic: Home, Men, Shelter

Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.

- Irwin Redlener

topic: Gone, Bells, Shelter, Fallouts

To shelter and to hide, they have resigned themselves.

- J. D. McClatchy

topic: Shelter, Forests

When the blessed Spirit, that bloweth where it listeth, visits you and stirs the plumage of the soul, seek no cowardly shelter from it, but fling yourself upon it, and, though its sweep be awful, you shall be sustained. Only do this, do all, not in presumptuous daring, but in divine submission; in dependence, not on any strength that can be spent, but on the ever-living stay of all that trust in Him.

- James Martineau

source: James Martineau (1905). “A Martineau year book: Extracts from sermons”

topic: Blessed, Soul, Shelter, Cowardly, Visits You

I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have.

- Jared Leto

topic: Shelter

Mister Dresden is a diplomatically challenged individual. He should be in a shelter for the tactless.

- Jim Butcher

topic: Shelter, Individual, Should

Evasions are the common shelter of the hard-hearted, the false and impotent when called upon to assist; the really great alone plan instantaneous help, even when their looks or words presage difficulties.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

topic: Looks, Shelter, Helping, Instantaneous

How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree

- John Clare

topic: Summer, Tree, Shelter

You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.

- John Darnielle

topic: Giving, World, Shelter

Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always fully capable of successfully meeting all of the complex problems of modern living.

- Joseph Pilates

topic: Mind, Body, Shelter, Complex Problems

My daughters depend on me for a lot more than food, clothing and shelter. They depend on me as an example of how to go on.

- Katie Couric

topic: Inspirational, Daughter, Shelter

If youre a vegan who ran a marathon & got your dogs from a shelter, how do you decide which thing to wedge into the conversation first?

- Ken Jennings

source: FaceBook post by Ken Jennings from Apr 19, 2012

topic: Dog, Shelter, Firsts

Allow yourself emotion-backed demands only for physical necessities such as air to breathe, food if starving, and shelter if freezing.

- Ken Keyes Jr.

topic: Air, Shelter, Demand, Freezing, Higher Consciousness

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

- Lorrie Moore

topic: Pockets, Shelter

After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.

- Martin Filler

topic: Political, Charity, Shelter, Social Obligation, Suitable

We need not join the mad rush to purchase an earthly fallout shelter. God is our eternal fallout shelter. From Strength to Love, 1963

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: God, Mad, Shelter, Fallouts

What shelter to grow ripe is ours? What leisure to grow wise?

- Matthew Arnold

topic: Wise, Leisure, Shelter

Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.

- Max Frisch

source: Max Frisch (1977). “Sketchbook 1946-1949”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

topic: Progress, Delight, Shelter

Fire may be the simplest and sometimes the only recourse in protecting yourself from the discomfort of cold, counteracting the effects of hypothermia, or in making up for inadequate clothing, bedding, or shelter.

- Mors Kochanski

topic: Fire, Survival, Shelter, Hypothermia, Making Up

Food, clothes and shelter have no politics.

- Mutabaruka

topic: Clothes, Shelter

Communities of every demographic (north, south, urban, rural, public animal control shelter, private shelter) have achieved No Kill success.

- Nathan Winograd

topic: Animal, Community, Shelter

No Kill may be defined by what happens to the animals within the halls of the shelter, but it can only be achieved by what happens outside of them.

- Nathan Winograd

topic: Animal, May, Shelter

I understand human needs. I grew up where far too many people lived day to day without elemental needs like food and shelter.

- Naveen Jain

topic: People, Needs, Shelter

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Dog, People, Shelter, Illiteracy

There is such a shelter in each other.

- Nick Laird

source: "Pedigree". Poem by by Nick Laird,

topic: Shelter

On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.

- Paul Murray Kendall

source: Paul Murray Kendall (1965). “The Art of Biography”, New York, Norton

topic: Men, Shelter, Biographies, Another Man, Biographers

Whenever I felt down, whenever I started wondering what homeless shelter I would die in, [my mother] would buck me up by telling me: you know, Paul, the A students work for the B students, the C students run the companies, and the D students dedicate the buildings.

- Paul Orfalea

topic: Mother, Running, Shelter

Everybody should have a shelter dog. Its good for the soul.

- Paul Shaffer

topic: Dog, Soul, Shelter

I'm very involved with PETA - People for Ethical Treatment of Animals - and Greenpeace and a lot of women's shelter and clothing giveaways.

- Pink

topic: Animal, People, Shelter, Peta, Greenpeace

Happy is the house that shelters a friend.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: House, Shelter, Human Rights, Solemnity, Positive Friendship

And invention must still go on for it is necessary that we should completely control our circumstances. It is not sufficient that there should [only] be organization capable of providing food and shelter for all and organization to effect its proper distribution.

- Reginald Fessenden

topic: Organization, Goes On, Shelter

The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies has been shaped by her in the womb of evolution. Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.

- Rene Dubos

topic: Mother, Earth, Shelter, Enviroment, Enviromental

Not surprisingly, extensive effort in Britain and America goes into finding tax shelter. the system is "efficient" for the shelter industry, not for the economy.

- Robert Kuttner

source: Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.188, University of Pennsylvania Press

topic: America, Effort, Shelter, Britain And America

Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelter, or the necessaries and comforts of life, and for the remainder of his time, every person is entitled to education, recreation and sleep.

- Robert Owen

source: "Foundation Axioms" of the Society for Promoting National Regeneration, 1833.

topic: Sleep, Eight, Shelter

Revolutionaries don't get job security. They compete with rats for cheese and with strays for shelter--after the big bullets make feet out of their knees.

- Ruby Dee

topic: Jobs, Feet, Shelter

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul.

- Samuel

topic: Soul, Shelter, Rich

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.

- Samuel Mockbee

topic: Soul, Environmental, Shelter, Environmental Change

I got the right temperature for shelter you from the storm

- Sean Paul

topic: Storm, Temperature, Shelter

I like putting my money into things like food and shelter. I'm probably a bad example of an investor.

- Simon Baker

topic: Example, Shelter, Investors

If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.

- Simon Mawer

topic: Shelter, Chance, Barricades

A home without a dog is merely a shelter.

- Stephen Huneck

topic: Dog, Home, Shelter

Indeed, happiness is nothing other than being encompassed, an after-image of the original shelter within the mother. But for this reason no one who is happy can know that he is so. To see happiness, he would have to pass out of it: to be as if already born. He who says he is happy lies, and in invoking happiness, sins against it. He alone keeps faith who says: I was happy.

- Theodor Adorno

topic: Mother, Lying, Shelter

Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.

- Thomas Pynchon

topic: Dream, Blessing, Shelter, Many Blessings

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

- Thomas Raymond Kelly

topic: Men, Important, Shelter

If you say you don't have money to help a animal shelter, why then do you have money to buy meat?

- Tsem Tulku

source: FaceBook post by H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche from Sep 30, 2011

topic: Animal, Shelter, Meat, Animal Shelter

Food, clothing and shelter — these are the basic needs. Beyond that, if you want anything, it is the beginning of self-deception.

- U.G. Krishnamurti

topic: Self, Deception, Shelter

Maybe you know it but it's not so easy to finance movies in total. And the reason I am able to do these kind of movies is I have a tax shelter fund in Germany, and if you invest in a movie in Germany you get basically fifty percent back from the government.

- Uwe Boll

topic: Government, Shelter, Fifty

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

- W. L. George

topic: Cat, Shelter, And Love, Solitary Confinement, Inspirational Cat

Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.

- William Bennett

topic: Home, Storm, Shelter, Sweet Home, Shelter From The Storm

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?

- William Makepeace Thackeray

topic: Men, Rocks, Shelter

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.

- William S. Burroughs

topic: Cat, Shelter, Want

You never have to be scared of the trials but of standing alone in the trials without shelter (Allah's help).

- Yasmin Mogahed

topic: Trials, Shelter, Scared, Standing Alone

This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.

- Yasmin Mogahed

topic: Storm, Shelter, This Life, Shelter From The Storm

Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.

- Yukio Mishima

topic: Kissing, Shelter, Spirit

Enveloped in Your Light, may I be a beacon to those in search of Light. Sheltered in Your Peace, may I offer shelter to those in need of peace. Embraced by Your Presence, so may I be present to others.

- Rami M. Shapiro

topic: Light, Needs, Shelter, Those In Need

I lived with my godmother and mother in New Zealand until I was seven. They were both Jungian psychologists and had a homeless shelter for street gang members in New Zealand.

- Tamaryn

topic: Mother, Gang Members, Shelter

A house is more than just a shelter; that it is a way of improving your way of life.

- William Krisel

topic: House, Shelter, Way

As I go across the country and privately visit women's shelters and counselling centres, I am appalled that the most vulnerable people in our society are still women.

- Adrienne Clarkson

topic: Country, People, Shelter

I relate to [women and children in women's shelters] on a personal level because I've been there myself.

- Nia Sanchez

topic: Children, Levels, Shelter

Electing Sudan to the UN body mandated to promote and protect human rights worldwide is like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a women's shelter.

- Hillel Neuer

source: "UN accuses Sudan's president of genocide; then mulls naming him to Human Rights Council". www.foxnews.com. July 13, 2012.

topic: Rights, Body, Shelter, Sudan, Jack The Ripper

We shelter an angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel.

- Jean Cocteau

source: "Cock and harlequin: Notes concerning music". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1921.

topic: Angel, Shelter, Guardian

Doing the big budget films really makes you appreciate doing movies like Shelter. It's because this is like doing theater, you just have to hit the ground running

- Paul Bettany

source: Source: blogs.indiewire.com

topic: Running, Appreciate, Shelter

You'll better understand the evil when top audit firms started selling fraudulent tax shelters when I tell you that one told me that they're better [than the others] because they only sold [the schemes] to their top-20 clients, so no-one would notice.

- Charlie Munger

topic: Evil, Shelter, Clients

Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.

- Lois Lowry

source: Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Quartet”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Waiting, Weapons, Shelter

You need to shelter yourself from the abrasive forces of life that drain you and keep you in a lower state of mind.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Mind, Needs, Shelter, Losing Power

Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Love Is, Shelter, Unattainable

He’d protect me and shelter me forever. But I was beginning to realize that being sheltered came at a price.

- Claudia Gray

topic: Forever, Shelter, Realizing

Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Lamps, Shelter, Refuge

Yes, I remember the bombings. Yes, I remember, because - yes, I remember being in air raid shelters. Even though I was evacuated because I was very young, I remember being in air raid shelters and the tremendous feeling of compatibility with everybody.

- Joan Collins

topic: Air, Feelings, Shelter, Compatibility

But while everything around us seems to be in a constant state of flux- people at their very core remained exactly the same. All of us still seeking the things we've sought all along—shelter, food, love, greater meaning—" He shakes his head. "A quest that's immune to evolution.

- Alyson Noel

source: Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.564, Pan Macmillan

topic: People, Quests, Shelter, Food Love

Why are we not tasting the bliss of Bhakti? Because we are taking shelter of stone boats. We are sinking and drowning in Maya & still we are further taking shelter of stone boats and this can go on life after life.

- Radhanath Swami

topic: Goes On, Shelter, Stones, Bhakti

In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.

- Thomas Brooks

source: Thomas Brooks (1820). “The privie key of heaven; or Twenty arguments for closet-prayer, in a select discourse”, p.29

topic: Wings, Storm, Shelter

Without natural resources life itself is impossible. From birth to death, natural resources, transformed for human use, feed, clothe, shelter, and transport us. Upon them we depend for every material necessity, comfort, convenience, and protection in our lives. Without abundant resources prosperity is out of reach.

- Gifford Pinchot

source: Gifford Pinchot (1998). “Breaking New Ground”, p.505, Island Press

topic: Use, Shelter, Comfort, Transport, Natural Resources

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

- Rebecca West

source: Rebecca West (2010). “The New Meaning of Treason”, p.25, Open Road Media

topic: Law, Shelter, Instinct

This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. It’s the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that.

- John Taylor Gatto

source: John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.79, New Society Publishers

topic: Children, Land, Shelter

...hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.

- John Updike

source: John Updike (2010). “Rabbit, Run”, p.302, Random House

topic: Hate, Hatred, Shelter

Staying in a hotel this time. They put me up in a little bit of a shithole. Yeah. Just this side of rinky dink. The first 7 floors are a homeless shelter, but I'm on 8.

- David Spade

source: "David Spade: Take the Hit". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1998.

topic: Sides, Shelter, Littles

We had 90 percent rates, but nobody paid them. And so you had all these exemptions, exclusions, shelters, all this kind of stuff. And that's why most Americans are saying, 'Look, let's just be honest. Let's have lower rates, but everybody pays them.'

- Rick Santorum

source: Interview with John Berman, abcnews.go.com. November 8, 2011.

topic: Looks, Shelter, Pay, Exemption

The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras.

- Barack Obama

topic: Art, Laughing, Shelter, Make You Laugh

I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.173, Xist Publishing

topic: House, Shelter, May

The shelter of excuses has a leaky roof.

- Ron Kaufman

source: "Lift Me UP! Service With A Smile". Book by Ron Kaufman, 2005.

topic: Service Culture, Shelter, Excuse

Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Dream, Men, Shelter

I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.

- Horace

source: "The Epistles" by Horace, Book I, epistle i, line 14,

topic: Loyalty, Storm, Shelter

There is no shelter in you anywhere.

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

source: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1998). “Early Poems”, p.165, Penguin

topic: Shelter

Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?

- Ingrid Newkirk

source: "What the AKC Won’t Tell You About Its Top 10 Breeds" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2013.

topic: Home, Dying, Shelter, One Of A Kind

Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.

- Ingrid Newkirk

source: "Pets Should Be Evacuated, Too" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2011.

topic: Animal, People, Shelter, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina

At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.

- Khaled Hosseini

source: "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 25, 2009.

topic: Effort, Shelter, Problem

The amazing thing is that we could live in the world together peacefully, feed the world, shelter the world. We have that capability both spiritually and technologically.

- Yoko Ono

source: Source: interviewswithicons.wordpress.com

topic: Together, World, Shelter

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

- Eric Hoffer

source: Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

topic: Struggle, Shelter, Poverty, True Believer, Borderline

My belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ and the testimony I have of the Savior and His atonement [is my personal shelter].

- LaVell Edwards

source: Source: universe.byu.edu

topic: Jesus, Shelter, Belief

Once you take away the struggle for food, clothing and shelter, work is the one four letter word that offends everyone.

- Lenny Bruce

source: "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

topic: Struggle, Shelter, Four, Four Letter Words