Famous quotes containing the words shelter, island and/or town:
“You will break the lie of men’s thoughts,
and cherish and shelter us.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from others lands, but a continent that joins to them.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“He builds a big town with his mouth, but not even a fly’s nest with his hands.”
—Estonian. Trans. by Ilse Lehiste (1993)