Showing posts with label shelter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shelter. Show all posts

Friday, 15 November 2024

Quotes: Rachel Joyce

"They had offered him comfort and shelter, even when he was afraid of taking them, and in accepting he had learned something new. It was as much a gift to receive as it was to give, requiring as it did both courage and humility."

–– Rachel Joyce (b. 1962), British writer

Source: Rachel Joyce. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. Canada: Bond Street Books (Random House Canada), 2012; p. 201.

via: Commonplace Book, 2013-2014, 2014, p. 96. 

Sunday, 5 March 2023

Women's quotes: Zaha Hadid

"I don't think architecture is only about shelter. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think." 

–– Zaha Hadid (1950-2016), Iraqi-born British architect, artist, designer 

via: Sketchbook 29, 2016, p. 127.

Thursday, 14 July 2022

Quotes: Gaston Bachelard

"The house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."

–– Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962), French philosopher