shelter quotes

Oh wert thou in the cauld blast, On yonder lea, on yonder lea; My plaidie to the angryairt, I'd shelter thee, I'd shelter thee.

-Burns, Robert
  'Oh wert thou in the cauld blast', stanza1.

Crystal sincerity hath found no shelter but in a fool's cap.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'Floris in Italy'. Collected in H House and G Storey (eds) The Journals and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1959), p.42.

Mother needs something today to calm her down, And though she's not really ill, There's a little yellow pill: She goes running for the shelter Of a mother's little helper, And it helps her on her way, Gets her through her busy day.

-Jagger, Mick and Richards, Keith
  'Mother's Little Helper'.

In the final analysis, all architecture reveals the application of human ingenuity to the satisfaction of human needs. And among these needs are not only shelter, warmth and accommodation, but also the needs, felt at every moment in every part of the world in endlessly different ways, for something more profound, evocative and universal, for beauty, for permanence, for immortality.

-Nuttgens, Patrick
  'The Nature of  Architecture', in Ben Farmer and Hentie Louw (eds) Companion to Contemporary  Architectural Thought (1993).

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

-Tuchman, BarbaraW(ertheim)
Practising History,'The Houses of Research'.

   Our God, our help in ages past Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast And our eternal home.

-Watts, Isaac
  ThePsalms of David Imitated, Psalm 90 (in1738 JohnWesley substituted'O God' for 'Our God').

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