Herman Melville Quotes

… prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

A man's house is his castle.

What the United States has done is to be open to people who are fleeing tyranny, who are fleeing danger, but we have done it in a very careful way that has worked for us.

Every year, thousands of immigrants, asylum seekers and migrants assume great hardships to find safety in America. They choose our country because they see the United States as a land of justice, as a place of safety, and a beacon of hope.

The United States is a safe harbor.

People are not trying to get into China, they're trying to get out of China. The United States is the only great country where people are trying to get into to this country for obvious reasons.

Do not give back to his master a servant who has gone in flight from his master and come to you: let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him.

Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers.

I think that lyrically, 'Safe' is a very positive song: it's very strong; it's about keeping somebody safe and protecting people. I think everybody anywhere in the world can relate to it. I think everybody wants to feel safe; everybody wants to feel protected.

I escaped from my home country, Bulgaria, to Czechoslovakia and then to the West.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.

We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.

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

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.

You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe.

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.

For a man's house is his castle.

They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid.

A refuge for the oppressed from every land and clime.

Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.

Israel is an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.