Shelter Quotes - Page 13

• The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it was born, as strong as the mountains that give it shelter, as universal as the stars themselves.

  Ben Bova

  Strong, Stars, Sea

  Ben Bova (2008). “Mars Life”, p.313, Macmillan

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

  Samuel Mockbee

  Rich Or Poor, Soul, Environmental

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• So great becomes the fear of losing what we have that many of us rush back to hide under the temporary shelter of convention rather than follow the path of self-discovery wherever it might lead. Given adequate time and sufficient fear, we may hide so long that we hardly notice we're slowly suffocating.

  Arianna Huffington

  Discovery, Self, Long

  Arianna Huffington (2006). “On Becoming Fearless...in Love, Work, and Life”, p.30, Hachette UK

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• I honestly try to have the approach that this is real life, this is the real world that we live in, and I don't really try to shelter [my son] from a lot of things that he's gonna see when he looks out of the window.

  Solange Knowles

  Real, Son, Trying

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". Interview with Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. February 12, 2014.

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• 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

  Government, Germany, Fifty

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• We live in a world of energy. An important task at this time is to learn to sense or see the energy of everyone and everything -- people, plants, animals. This becomes increasingly important as we draw close to the World of the Fifth Sun, for it is associated with the element ether -- the realm where energy lives and weaves. Go to the sacred places of the Earth to pray for peace, and have respect for the Earth which gives us our food, clothing, and shelter. We need to reactivate the energy of these sacred places. That is our work.

  Carlos Barrios

  Animal, People, Giving

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• 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

  Mother, Running, Bucks

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• Each thing organizes the space around it, rebuffing or sidling up against other things; each thing calls, gestures, beckons to other beings or battles them for our attention; things expose themselves to the sun or retreat among the shadows, shouting with their loud colors or whispering with their seeds; rocks snag lichen spores from the air and shelter spiders under their flanks; clouds converse with the fathomless blue and metamorphose into one another; they spill rain upon the land, which gathers in rivulets and carves out canyons.

  David Abram

  Rain, Blue, Color

  "Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmolog". Book by David Abram, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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• 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

  Mother, Eugenics, Earth

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

  Paul Shaffer

  Dog, Should Have, Soul

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• 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

  Children, Land, Architect

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

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

  Dick Armey

  Average, Libertarian, Pay

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• 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

  Sleep, Eight, Comfort

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

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• Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems. It is the harmonious integration of landscape and people providing their food, energy, shelter and other material and non-material needs in a sustainable way. Without permanent agriculture there is no possibility of a stable social order.

  Bill Mollison

  Agriculture, Order, Ecosystems

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• They say people are fundamentally interested in only three things - food, sex and shelter. I can't say I'm authoritative on the first two, although I'm in favor of both. It's shelter that concerns me, and it's nice to be doing something people are interested in.

  Edward Durell Stone

  Sex, Nice, Two

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• Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for itself. Resting in the heart of words, seeing clearly into the cell of a word, feeling that the word is the seed of a life, a growing dawn... The poet Vandercammen says all that in a line: "A word can be a dawn and even a sure shelter."

  Gaston Bachelard

  Life, Tired, Heart

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• Now there are a few things with a shelter - like with noise control, don't face dog runs facing each other that tends to encourage barking. The problem you've got is that the kind of materials that absorb noise are difficult to clean. One of the biggest problems in the design of animal shelters is that animals are barking and it's like the sound of a jet plane taking off.

  Temple Grandin

  Running, Dog, Animal

  "Interview with Dr. Temple Grandin". Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Giving those animals [in shelter] quality time - now, I have been in some of the shelters where the cats have been in group housing. Well if you have a cat that never gets out of sternal recumbency, now what that means is that [inaudible] - that's a stressed cat. If they lay on their side, then they are not stressed out.

  Temple Grandin

  Mean, Cat, Animal

  Source: www.floppycats.com

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• There [in Afghanistan ] is a tremendous need for selter. So I am focusing most of the efforts of the foundation to building shelters for refugees in northern Afghanistan and we have already begun doing so.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Effort, Foundation, Needs

  Source: www.diablomag.com

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

  Khaled Hosseini

  Effort, Problem, Building

  "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.

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• On social welfare the Church does so much good around the world - nuns running schools and homeless shelters, priests ministering to people who are in crisis.

  Anna Quindlen

  Running, School, People

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

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Men, Important, Needs

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• 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

  Animal, May, Halls

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• I was telling somebody about in grammar school we used to have the duck-and-cover drills where we'd have to go down to a fallout shelter in the basement. We'd sit on our butts on the ground next to the wall with a textbook over our heads and our knees sort of drawn up to our chest. I don't think they still do that. They're sort of sobering. You leave recess and come in for the apocalypse drill.

  Adam Reed

  Wall, School, Thinking

  Interview with Vlada Gelman, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2011.

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• We must strive to encourage East and West not only to move towards each other but also to encourage them to find a new philosophy, a philosophy which will serve as a tool determining the future of Planet Earth - our common and only shelter.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Philosophy, Moving, East

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