Quotes About Sheltered Life

#1. She looked at me for a second and said, "Oh, never mind. I guess it's true what Mom said? That you've led a sheltered life?"
I said I thought the description fairly apt.

Susan Hubbard

#2. Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.

Sarah Palin

#3. I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of playing football.

John Cale

#4. But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado,sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life,and dropping her down in the midst of this still,haunted desolation.

Margaret Mitchell

#5. A sheltered life knows no risk or consequence.

Jeremiah Cross

#6. I led such a sheltered life I didn't go out with girls until I was almost four.

Bob Hope

#7. I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

R.L. Stine

#8. I'm the first to admit I've had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business - be nice to everyone and all that.

Adam Rickitt

#9. My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about.

Anita Hill

#10. It's easy to thank God and to be happy when you live a sheltered life and have no concept of suffering; Suffer and then do all of the above.

Donna Lynn Hope

#11. I'm beginning to think I've led a much too sheltered life.

Diana Wynne Jones

#12. No, Lewis. Unlike you, I've lived a very sheltered life. I have tried to get invited along to one of these porno-parties, but everybody seems to think I'm above such things.

Colin Dexter

#13. I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.

Leona Lewis

#14. Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

John Stuart Mill

#15. So every dollar of income that I have that is potentially taxed away is a dollar I can't put in my company to create a job. My entire company is around job creation.

Curt Schilling

#16. That Gilbert of yours is a darling, Anne,

L.M. Montgomery

#17. I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered rich girl collides with great books and is devastated by her own banality.

Elizabeth Kostova

#18. For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know

Theodore Roosevelt

#19. Kahlan guide me. Kahlan teach me. Kahlan protect me. In your light I thrive. In your mercy I am sheltered. In your wisdom I am humbled. I live only to love you. My life is yours.

Terry Goodkind

#20. I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that.

Alexandra Kerry

#21. Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.

Walter Kaufmann

#22. The writer doesn't write for the reader. He doesn't write for himself, either. He writes to serve ... something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness - those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.

Joy Williams

#23. My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures in my life, really. I had my godfather, but he's more like a grandfather, so I was quite sheltered. I've never tried to find my father.

Catherine Tate

#24. The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.

Deborah Meier

#25. I flew aeroplanes, parachuted, walked on my own across the Himalayas - you name it; if it was dangerous, I did it.

Scilla Elworthy

#26. Don't keep all your feelings sheltered - express them. Don't EVER let life shut you up.

Steve Maraboli

#27. Most people don't understand performers are really sheltered and protected so much sometimes that they don't get a chance to live their lives.

Diana Ross

#28. We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia.

Thomas Sowell

#29. When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.

Martin H. Fischer

#30. The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.

Alain De Botton

#31. I was pretty sheltered growing up. I just started getting into heavier music with the Tooth & Nail/Solid State era, which really kind of brought this whole thing to life for me, so I am really thankful for that label.

Matty Mullins

#32. This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again.

Daphne Du Maurier

#33. Sweeping from butcher's stalls, dung, guts, and blood,
Drown'd puppies, stinking sprats, all drench'd in mud,
Dead cats, and turnip-tops, come tumbling down the flood.

Jonathan Swift

#34. Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

Federico Fellini

#35. Somewhere, someone is search for the pieces of you that mold well with theirs.

Nikki Rowe

#36. Let's face it: None of us are ever going to get to the place in life where we have no more disappointments. We can't expect to be sheltered from every little thing. Disappointment is a fact of life
one that must be dealt with.

Joyce Meyer

#37. Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

Stephen Sondheim