Shelter Quotes - Page 14

• I thought of New York as a free city, like one of those prewar nests of intrigue and licentiousness where exiles and lamsters and refugees found shelter in a tangle of improbable juxtapositions. I had never gotten around to changing my nationality from the one assigned me at birth, but I would have declared myself a citizen of New York City had such a stateless state existed, its flag a solid black.

  Luc Sante

  New York, Cities, Black

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm an ambassador for Best Friends [Animal Society], an incredible organization that's devoted to the welfare of animals - in particular, trying to help make every animal shelter a no-kill shelter. My two dogs were rescues, and I'm a firm believer in finding every dog or cat a home.

  Patrick Fabian

  Dog, Home, Cat

  FaceBook post by Patrick Fabian from Jun 21, 2016

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• I've got two dogs - one's a Jack Russell and she's one year old now, and I've got another dog called Kanga, and I got him from a rescue shelter, and there's nothing I enjoy more than just walking them on the beach in Cape Town. I find that very destressing and very relaxing.

  Lewis Pugh

  Dog, Beach, Years

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• In today's world, people experience two types of poverty: the poverty caused by lack of food, clothing and shelter, and the poverty caused by lack of love and compassion. Of these two, the second type needs to be considered first because if we have love and compassion in our hearts, then we will wholeheartedly serve those who suffer from lack of food, clothing and shelter.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Heart, Compassion, Two

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• Shock waves to a tired brain, sends that hungry lady to my door again. She's my shelter from the storm when I feel the rain, entertaining white powder.

  Elton John

  Rain, Tired, Doors

  Song: White Lady White Powder, Album: 21 At 33

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• A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Children, Ambition, Mind

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper (1889). “History of woman suffrage”

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• The only reason I felt like I could sing a song like 'Blown Away' is because I have definitely lived through my fair share of trips to the cellar in the spring. We were no stranger to that. I still ask my mom, 'Is the cellar cleaned out now? Is everything OK?' Even in my new house, I had something built in it that's like a storm shelter.

  Carrie Underwood

  Mom, Song, Spring

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• where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own future when, out of negligence or contempt, it overlooks the need of children to be reared in a family ... or when, in the midst of plenty, some families cannot give their children adequate food and shelter, safe activity and rest, and an opportunity to grow into full adulthood as people who can care for and cherish other human beings like themselves.

  Margaret Mead

  Family, Children, Opportunity

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

  Rebecca West

  Law, Instinct, Arise

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

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• I did most of my volunteer work when I was in college because I knew of more ways to get involved. In high school, we'd do things like, there was a homeless shelter near our hometown and our church group decorated one of the rooms. In college, I was in a sorority, and we did a lot of things, like pick up trash on the highway.

  Carrie Underwood

  School, College, Volunteer

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• I have never met anyone who built a bomb shelter and felt protected by it. I have never met a modern military man who did not realize that military victory is a concept which became obsolete with the coming of the nuclear age, and most civilians realize this also. Wisdom demands that we stop preparing to wage a war which would eliminate mankind - and start preparing to eliminate the seeds of war.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Military, War, Men

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.115, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

  April Gornik

  Real, Fighting, Animal

  "Our Real Wealth" by April Gornik, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2010.

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• I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to make a fire with sticks and I know how to build a shelter, but I live 90 percent of my life in an urban environment, so these skills aren't really going to help me because there aren't trees that grow in Los Angeles that I can just take a branch and make fire out of, because that wood isn't conducive for that. So I started learning urban survival skills.

  Shailene Woodley

  Skills, Fire, Tree

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• We few, we happy few, we band of brothers - joined in the serious business of keeping our food, shelter, clothing and loved ones from combining with oxygen.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Brother, Oxygen, Band

  "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1965.

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• 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

  Country, People, Our Society

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• We're living in an economy where productivity is no longer the goal, employment is. That's because, on a very fundamental level, we have pretty much everything we need. America is productive enough that it could probably shelter, feed, educate, and even provide health care for its entire population with just a fraction of us actually working ... Our problem is not that we don't have enough stuff-it's that we don't have enough ways for people to work and prove that they deserve this stuff.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  America, Goal, People

  "Are jobs obsolete?". www.cnn.com. September 7, 2011.

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• 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

  House, May, Firsts

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

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• Half of NYC's homeless populations are families.Homeless people have been ignored for too long. I'll just say this: If you are a family on the brink of eviction you are 80% less likely to get evicted if you have legal counsel. However, there is no right to legal counsel in housing court.It would cost the city $12,500 to grant that family legal counsel. Meanwhile, the average stay for a homeless family in a shelter once they have been evicted cost the city $45,000. So not only does it seem like the right thing to do morally, it's also the right thing to do fiscally.

  Paul Bettany

  Average, Cities, Nyc

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's so hard to keep perspective and keep things in context, and it's so easy to get distracted. This film [Shelter] reminded me how important it is to remain aware, and to keep seeing the things that are happening around the world.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Perspective, Important, World

  "Anthony Mackie, Jennifer Connelly & Paul Bettany Discuss Making ‘Shelter’ & the State of Homelessness in NYC" by Aramide A Tinubu, www.indiewire.com. November 13, 2015.

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• I never really took into account the number of homeless families. As a kid, we used to feed the hungry at my church every other Saturday, and one day this kid from my school was there. Somewhere between that moment of realization and appreciation for what my Dad sacrificed for us to have, and me becoming "Anthony Mackie" I lost it. This movie [Shelter] really made me realize that, and it was very humbling and very sickening to see that within myself.

  Paul Bettany

  Appreciation, Dad, School

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• No, not under the vault of another sky, not under the shelter of other wings. I was with my people then, there where my people were doomed to be.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Sky, Wings, People

  "Requiem". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, 1963.

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

  Simon Mawer

  Chance, Barricades, Behinds

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• 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

  Insecurity, Principles, Helping

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• The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.

  Don McLean

  Fall, Eight, Musical

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• Houses mean a creation, something new, a shelter freed from the idea of a cave.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Mean, Ideas, House

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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