Adriaen van der Donck Quotes

You are now under the protection of the United Nations …. I will never abandon you.

What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?

Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

I see the kids and I feel like taking them all away to a safe place to hide until the war stops and the hunger stops and El Cua becomes strong enough to give them the care they deserve.

New York is the first place I have ever felt safe.

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we may dwell.

Home is your sanctuary.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

we find by experience, that without the common help, assistance, and interposition of a General Company, the people designed from hence for those parts cannot be profitably protected and maintained in their great risque from pirates, extortion and otherwise, which will happen in so very long a voyage.

… prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

Everybody needs a safe place, and it should be their home.

School was my sanctuary.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

The United States is a safe harbor.

Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms.

Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

One can give advice comfortably from a safe port.

And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...

Your home is your refuge.

A home is a kingdom of it's own in the midst of the world, a stronghold amid life's storms and stresses, a refuge, even a sanctuary.

Looks like the safest spot here for a human who doesn’t want to get eaten. (Kish)

A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.

The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they all knew and trusted. Outside this circle lay everything that was strange and frightening, and the darkness seemed to reach higher and higher and further and further away, right to the end of the world.

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection

Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.