Sheltered life Quotes

I never had to grow up. Everybody did everything for me. I was the first generation in my family to have money, and I had no idea what to do.

A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.

In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

I feel like I've lived quite a sheltered life, like my mom and dad were quite protective of me.

I know there's a big bad world out there, but I rarely come across it.

I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

I’m beginning to think I’ve led a much too sheltered life.

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living.

Maybe I've had a sheltered life and career, but I have so many role models to look up to. It's normal that I would strive to build my own career.

A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

There are a million moving parts to raising kids, and you can't always anticipate them all, especially when they are teenagers and their peers play such a huge role in their lives. If you offer independence, there is one kind of pitfall; if you shelter them too much, there is another. And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.

I led such a sheltered life I didn't go out with girls until I was almost four.

I didn't grow up in public life. I lived with my mother in Boston, not in Washington, DC, so I was somewhat sheltered from that.

Living safe behind a wall, never tasting life at all.

My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about.

I was raised orthodox Muslim. Very sheltered, very conservative.

I've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day?

Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.

You show me a perfect person and I'll show you somebody who has lived a very closed life.

After a sheltered life, I went the other way. I wanted to prove how tough I was.

He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.

I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works.

They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch.

Shoot, I must have lived such a doggoned sheltered life as a normal, independent American up there in the Last Frontier, schooled with only public education and a lowly state university degree, because obviously I haven't learned enough to dismiss common sense.

I lived a very, very Middle Eastern life until I was in my early 20s. It was very sheltered.