Quotes about shelter
A collection of quotes on the topic of shelter, people, use, food.
Quotes about shelter
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
As quoted in Stories in His Own Hand: The Everyday Wisdom of Ronald Reagan (2001) https://books.google.com/books?id=9ut8fnmwVkwC&pg=PA91 edited by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Graebner Anderson, and Martin Anderson. p. 91 <br class="br">Post-presidency (1989&ndash;2004)
“I wanted my heart to bloom
and shelter a shadow of love”
Suman Pokhrel (1967) Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
<span class="plainlinks"> The Tajmahal and my Love http://www.best-poems.net/love_poems/the_taj_mahal_amp_my_love.html/</span> <br class="br">From Poetry
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath
Source: Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore
Marjorie Holmes (1910–2002) American columnist and best-selling Christian author
Seymour Papert book Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas
Source: Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (1980), Chapter 2, Mathophobia: The Fear of Learning
U.G. Krishnamurti (1918–2007) Indian philosopher
Stopped in Our Tracks, Book Two: Excerpts from U.G.'s Dialogues http://www.well.com/user/jct/chandra.htm (2005) by K. Chandrasekhar
Julian Assange (1971) Australian editor, activist, publisher and journalist
[Mark, Tran, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/12/iceland-haven-freedom-speech-wikileaks?KeepThis=true&TB_iframe=true&height=600&width=990, Iceland plans future as global haven for freedom of speech, The Guardian, February 12, 2010, 2010-06-17]
“For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
“I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?”
R.L. Stine (1943) American writer and producer
“The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.”
Paul Bowles (1910–1999) American composer, writer, translator
Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye
What Happened To Goodbye (2011)
Source: What Happened to Goodbye
“A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology
"Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype" (1939) In CW 9, Part I: The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious P.172
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
"The Stranger Song" (1966)
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2011, Address on the natural and nuclear energy disasters in Japan (March 2011)
Fanny Kemble (1809–1893) English actress and writer
Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839, ch. 1 (1863).
“I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.”
Nullius addictus iurare in verba magistri,
quo me cumque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes.
Book I, epistle i, line 14
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)
H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author
Hitherto it has grown out of the secure, non-struggling life of the aristocrat. In future it may be expected to grow out of the secure and not-so-struggling life of whatever citizens are personally able to develop it. There need be no attempt to drag culture down to the level of crude minds. That, indeed, would be something to fight tooth and nail! With economic opportunities artificially regulated, we may well let other interests follow a natural course. Inherent differences in people and in tastes will create different social-cultural classes as in the past—although the relation of these classes to the holding of material resources will be less fixed than in the capitalistic age now closing. All this, of course, is directly contrary to Belknap's rampant Stalinism—but I'm telling you I'm no bolshevik! I am for the preservation of all values worth preserving—and for the maintenance of complete cultural continuity with the Western-European mainstream. Don't fancy that the dethronement of certain purely economic concepts means an abrupt break in that stream. Rather does it mean a return to art impulses typically aristocratic (that is, disinterested, leisurely, non-ulterior) rather than bourgeois.
Letter to Clark Ashton Smith (28 October 1934), in Selected Letters V, 1934-1937 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, pp. 60-64
Non-Fiction, Letters
Ali book Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
Kurt Vonnegut book God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
"Eliot Rosewater" to a group of volunteer firemen.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
Mr. Muhammad teaches that as soon as we separate from the white man, we will learn that we can do without the white man just as he can do without us. The white man knows that once black men get off to themselves and learn they can do for themselves, the black man's full potential will explode and he will surpass the white man.
Playboy interview, regarding the ambition of the Black Muslims
Attributed
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809–1865) French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and socialist
Ch. III: "Labor as the Efficient Cause of the Domain of Property" http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/proudhon/property/ch03.htm <br class="br">What is Property? (1840)
José Ortega Y Gasset book The Revolt of the Masses
Source: The Revolt of the Masses (1929), Chapter XIV: Who Rules The World?
Context: Greeks and Latins appear in history lodged, like bees in their hives, within cities, poleis. … The polis is not primarily a collection of habitable dwellings, but a meeting-place for citizens, a space set apart for public functions. The city is not built, as is the cottage or the domus, to shelter from the weather and to propagate the species — these are personal, family concerns — but in order to discuss public affairs. … The man of the fields is still a sort of vegetable. His existence, all that he feels, thinks, wishes for, preserves the listless drowsiness in which the plant lives. The great civilisations of Asia and Africa were, from this point of view, huge anthropomorphic vegetations. …Socrates, the great townsman, quintessence of the spirit of the polis, can say: "I have nothing to do with the trees of the field, I have to do only with the man of the city." What has ever been known of this by the Hindu, the Persian, the Chinese, or the Egyptian?
John Locke book Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Sec. 131
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: Lying... is so ill a quality, and the mother of so many ill ones that spawn from it, and take shelter under it, that a child should be brought up in the greatest abhorrence of it imaginable. It should be always spoke of before him with the utmost detestation, as a quality so wholly inconsistent with the name and character of a gentleman, that no body of any credit can bear the imputation of a lie; a mark that is judg'd in utmost disgrace, which debases a man to the lowest degree of a shameful meanness, and ranks him with the most contemptible part of mankind and the abhorred rascality; and is not to be endured in any one who would converse with people of condition, or have any esteem or reputation in the world.
Henri Barbusse book Under Fire
Under Fire (1916), Ch. 24 - The Dawn
Context: There are all those things against you. Against you and your great common interests which as you dimly saw are the same thing in effect as justice, there are not only the sword-wavers, the profiteers, and the intriguers.
There is not only the prodigious opposition of interested parties — financiers, speculators great and small, armorplated in their banks and houses, who live on war and live in peace during war, with their brows stubbornly set upon a secret doctrine and their faces shut up like safes.
There are those who admire the exchange of flashing blows, who hail like women the bright colors of uniforms; those whom military music and the martial ballads poured upon the public intoxicate as with brandy; the dizzy-brained, the feeble-minded, the superstitious, the savages.
There are those who bury themselves in the past, on whose lips are the sayings only of bygone days, the traditionalists for whom an injustice has legal force because it is perpetuated, who aspire to be guided by the dead, who strive to subordinate progress and the future and all their palpitating passion to the realm of ghosts and nursery-tales.
With them are all the parsons, who seek to excite you and to lull you to sleep with the morphine of their Paradise, so that nothing may change. There are the lawyers, the economists, the historians — and how many more? — who befog you with the rigmarole of theory, who declare the inter-antagonism of nationalities at a time when the only unity possessed by each nation of to-day is in the arbitrary map-made lines of her frontiers, while she is inhabited by an artificial amalgam of races; there are the worm-eaten genealogists, who forge for the ambitious of conquest and plunder false certificates of philosophy and imaginary titles of nobility. The infirmity of human intelligence is short sight. In too many cases, the wiseacres are dunces of a sort, who lose sight of the simplicity of things, and stifle and obscure it with formulae and trivialities. It is the small things that one learns from books, not the great ones.
And even while they are saying that they do not wish for war they are doing all they can to perpetuate it. They nourish national vanity and the love of supremacy by force. "We alone," they say, each behind his shelter, "we alone are the guardians of courage and loyalty, of ability and good taste!" Out of the greatness and richness of a country they make something like a consuming disease. Out of patriotism — which can be respected as long as it remains in the domain of sentiment and art on exactly the same footing as the sense of family and local pride, all equally sacred — out of patriotism they make a Utopian and impracticable idea, unbalancing the world, a sort of cancer which drains all the living force, spreads everywhere and crushes life, a contagious cancer which culminates either in the crash of war or in the exhaustion and suffocation of armed peace.
They pervert the most admirable of moral principles. How many are the crimes of which they have made virtues merely by dowering them with the word "national"? They distort even truth itself. For the truth which is eternally the same they substitute each their national truth. So many nations, so many truths; and thus they falsify and twist the truth.
Those are your enemies. All those people whose childish and odiously ridiculous disputes you hear snarling above you — "It wasn't me that began, it was you!" — "No, it wasn't me, it was you!" — "Hit me then!" — "No, you hit me!" — those puerilities that perpetuate the world's huge wound, for the disputants are not the people truly concerned, but quite the contrary, nor do they desire to have done with it; all those people who cannot or will not make peace on earth; all those who for one reason or another cling to the ancient state of things and find or invent excuses for it — they are your enemies!
They are your enemies as much as those German soldiers are to-day who are prostrate here between you in the mud, who are only poor dupes hatefully deceived and brutalized, domestic beasts. They are your enemies, wherever they were born, however they pronounce their names, whatever the language in which they lie. Look at them, in the heaven and on the earth. Look at them, everywhere! Identify them once for all, and be mindful for ever!
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)
Context: Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist. And he requires shelter, for there are frightful powers which continuously break in upon him, powers which oppose scientific "truth" with completely different kinds of "truths" which bear on their shields the most varied sorts of emblems.
1980
“More rogues than honest men find shelter under habeas corpus”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
1820s Gold treasure United States, 1860s
Teresa Medeiros (1962) American writer
Source: A Whisper of Roses
“May my heart be your shelter, and my arms be your home.”
Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
“I act like someone in a bomb shelter trying to raise everyone’s spirits.”
Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist
Source: The Princess Diarist
“One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.”
Lorrie Moore (1957) American writer
Source: Like Life
“The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.”
Gilles Deleuze book Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
Source: Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
“I’m beginning to think I’ve led a much too sheltered life.”
Diana Wynne Jones House of Many Ways
Source: House of Many Ways
“It’s not about finding shelter in the storm but about dancing in the rain. (Zarek - Dark hunter)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Variant: Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
Source: Acheron
Anaïs Nin book The Diary of Anaïs Nin
The Diary of Anaïs Nin , Volume One 1931-1934
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
Fidel Castro (1926–2016) former First Secretary of the Communist Party and President of Cuba
Source: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography
Gaston Bachelard book The Poetics of Space
Source: La poétique de l'espace (The Poetics of Space) (1958), Ch. 1
“When the sky’s falling, I take shelter under bullshit.”
Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves
Source: The Republic of Thieves
Abdullah II of Jordan (1962) King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Address to the European Parliament (2015)
Ela Bhatt (1933) founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA)
Quoted in in "Ela Bhatt of SEWA awarded Indira Gandhi Prize for promoting peace".
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) American women's rights activist
An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony on the Charge of Illegal Voting] (1874)
Trial on the charge of illegal voting (1874)
Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada
greenbaypressgazette.com (October 5, 2005)
2007, 2008
Randall Jarrell book Pictures from an Institution
Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Chapter 4, p. 180
J. Bradford DeLong (1960) American economist
Making Sense of Friedrich A. von Hayek: Focus/The Honest Broker for the Week of August 9, 2014 http://equitablegrowth.org/making-sense-friedrich-von-hayek-focusthe-honest-broker-week-august-9-2014/ (2014)
“The shelter of excuses has a leaky roof.”
Ron Kaufman (1956) American author and consultant
Lift Me UP! Service With A Smile (2005)
Richard Cobden (1804–1865) English manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1842/jul/08/distress-of-the-country in the House of Commons (8 July 1842) against the Corn Laws. <br class="br">1840s
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
Travels in Alaska http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/travels_in_alaska/ (1915), chapter 2: Alexander Archipelago and the Home I Found in Alaska <br class="br">1910s
William Morris (1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman
The Earthly Paradise (1868-70), The Lady of the Land