Take Shelter Quotes

#1. It is a true pleasure to live in a century in which such great events take place, provided that one can take shelter in some little corner and watch the play in comfort. (attributed to N. Poussin)

John Banville

#2. Travel had taught me that the world was something to engage with, not take shelter from.

Josh Lanyon

#3. For they are rebellious against You. But let all who take refuge in You be glad, Let them ever sing for joy; And may You shelter them, That those who love Your name may exult in You. For it is You who blesses the righteous man, O LORD, You surround him with favor as with a shield. (Psalm 5)

Charles R. Swindoll

#4. Madness is like an alternative residence. When sanity chases you out of home, take shelter in madness.

Munia Khan

#5. When the sky's falling, I take shelter under bullshit.

Scott Lynch

#6. If we take shelter of the lotus feet of the spiritual master, we can become free from illusion, fear and distress. If we wholeheartedly beg for his mercy without any deceit then the spiritual master bestows all auspiciousness upon us.

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati

#7. He wondered if he'd be better off staying at the bum shelter with his false bum and forgetting about his real bum. But he couldn't. His bum was trying to take over the world.

Griffiths, Andy

#8. 11 But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; let them shout for joy forever. May You shelter them, and may those who love Your name boast about You. 12 For You, Lord, bless the righteous one; You surround him with favor like a shield.

Anonymous

#9. Wind does not need translation. It speaks the language of men, of animals and birds, of rocks and trees and earth and sky and water. It does not eat or sleep, or take shelter from the weather. It is the weather.
And it lives.

Jessica Day George

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

Lenny Bruce

#11. Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.

Sarah Dessen

#12. Also remember, love inhabits more than just the heart and mind. If need be it can take shelter in a big toe.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#13. your voice is a place i want to take shelter in, a place that makes me feel safe and soft.

Zaeema J. Hussain

#14. Not only was there no traffic but the rain came down in buckets and I had no shelter. I had to run under some pines to take cover; this did no good; I began crying and swearing and socking myself on the head for being such a damn fool.

Jack Kerouac

#15. Somewhere to take shelter from the elements but not the storms of life.

Lorraine Heath

#16. If the weather is too cold or rainy, I take shelter in the Regence Cafe, where I entertain myself by watching chess being played. Paris is the world center, and this cafe is the Paris centre for the finest skill at this game.

Denis Diderot

#17. In the end, like any stray, I was conquered by the promise of continued food and shelter. Trust would take longer.

Kelley Armstrong

#18. Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing.

Ming-Dao Deng

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

Girolamo Savonarola

#20. Hundreds of years ago during the Unity, there'd been a selection to choose those who'd take shelter in the pods and those who wouldn't. It had divided their ancestors and his, but she couldn't let that happen again. How could she value one person's life over another?

Veronica Rossi

#21. The weathermen warn us for days of the impending snowstorm that's to arrive Thursday night. The grocery stores have run out of bottle water as people prepare to take shelter in their homes; my God, I think, it's winter, an annual certainty, not the atomic bomb.

Mary Kubica

#22. God has and always will remain faithful to His word. Even when my doubts and fears threaten to drown me as I thrash blindly against my Rescuer, He carries me to the other side. When fiery circumstances take my breath away, He hides me in the shelter of His wings.

Katherine J. Walden

#23. We breathe for the sake of breathing, eat and drink for the sake of eating and drinking, we take shelter for the sake of taking shelter, we study to satisfy our curiosity, we take a walk for the walk. All that's not for the sake of living, it is living. Life is a sincerity.

Emmanuel Levinas

#24. People are lucky because they have shelters, they have refuges, they have sanctuaries and they have heavens! And what are they? Nature is a refuge; music is a shelter; literature is a sanctuary and art is a heaven! Whenever you need them you can take refuge in them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. 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

#26. Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live in fear of that, I was gong to work somehow against what that vision was, and what that horror was. It was poetry, art, music.

Anne Waldman

#27. Blood is everywhere..
Vultures take shelter beneath the tanks;
for the fumed sky is unsafe for their avian flight to prey on the Palestinian flesh.

Munia Khan

#28. Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.

Benjamin Franklin

#29. God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.

George MacDonald

#30. It's interesting. People go to an animal shelter and pick a dog that's been kicked, beaten, and has lost a leg and an eye, and they'll take that dog home and give it love and support, but they don't do that with people.

Nikki Sixx

#31. Friendship is a tree to take shelter from the storm, to find shade from the blazing sun, to climb its bratches to get a better view, and to swing from when we're happy.

Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

#32. Our sages developed music from time immemorial to take shelter in one's true self. Real music is not for wealth, not for honors, or not even for the joys of the mind - it is a path for realization and salvation.

Ali Akbar Khan

#33. How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?

Yann Martel

#34. All day long, one storm then another - and I take your hands like gentle flowers that blossom into awareness

John Geddes