Refuge

Famous quotes containing the word refuge:

“The great advantage of a hotel is that it’s a refuge from home life.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“Man’s feeble race what ills await!
Labour, and Penury, the racks of Pain,
Disease, and Sorrow’s weeping train,
And Death, sad refuge from the storms of Fate!”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)

“When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)