Shelters Quotes

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities.

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and other resources to meet their nutritional needs.

But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea.

The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.

And now the winds are very strong and the people fear their temporary shelters will just fly away.

I just kind of keep track of the dogs that are in all the animal shelters. They (Friends for Life) seemed like they needed a donation.

A lot of the calls come from shelters where applicants just pass the phone along to the next person in line without hanging up. They're just so relieved to finally reach someone who can help them. Some of the calls involving multiple claims can last several hours - and our folks end up handing the phone off to each other just to take a break.

Existing rules and principles can give us our present location, our bearings, our latitude and longitude. The inn that shelters for the night is not the journey's end. The law, like the traveler, must be ready for the morrow. It must have a principle of growth.

This is considered a hardship assignment. Volunteers will be staying in shelters. They will be facing the same challenges the hurricane victims will. Not everybody, because of health issues, can withstand circumstances such as that.

Shelters here are less than comfortable, and poor sanitation can develop quickly. Residents who decide to stay in the county, even those who go to local shelters, are risking their health and safety.

The animals would have had a painful death in shelters.

Many homes were impacted and shelters were opened, ... In some of these neighborhoods, till the water goes down, people are not going to be able to get back in their homes and start making repairs.

In Martin County, many homes were impacted and shelters were opened, and they're continuing to provide those services as we assess what the impact is, ... And really, some of these neighborhoods -- until the water goes down -- people are not going to get back into their homes and start making repairs.

It's already well established that there's more need, more demand for homeless shelters and services than all of us are collectively bringing to bear right now. And so any additional (load) is going to stress that.

If the first wave of people come up here and fill up the rooms and shelters and everything, then those last folks that leave, they don't have any choice but to go further north and the problem is they're trying to go further north when conditions have already gone south on them.

People are going to homeless shelters with vouchers in their hands.

The food was hard rock candy, and they were in tin cans. Some of (the shelters) had complete hospital units in them, the MASH units they used in the Korean War. The better ones were elaborately set up, but most were basic.

And those who were exposed are being evaluated in the various shelters for types of exposure and monitored for illness symptoms and are getting treatment if they need it.

What our people are hearing in the shelters is that folks are afraid to sleep because they're afraid a picture of their loved ones will be posted on the shelter's bulletin board and they don't want to miss it.

We fear that if people huddle closely together in temporary shelters and crowded conditions, more measles cases could occur.

We have made significant increases in providing shelters, hot lines and restraining orders to protect battered spouses and mandatory arrest for domestic violence incidents, ... And the largest beneficiaries have been men. The biggest drop is in women killing husbands.

Many shelters conduct behavior-based evaluations on animals they take in, but there are few better descriptions of a dog's temperament than an honest assessment from its owner through a questionnaire. Shelters are not in the business of giving up on the animals they receive, and they need the best information the owner can provide to keep both the animals and potential adopters safe.

[A key problem facing the shelters here and elsewhere is that nobody knows how long they will be needed.] We are seeing some people leave already, ... But we think some are going to be here for weeks or months.