Top 45 Sheltered Quotes

I was very sheltered, very bookish and, basically, skittish about life. My parents were both older when I came along and they didn’t do things like take vacations.

It’s traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that’s true of me, but it actually was.

I’m the first to admit I’ve had a sheltered life. I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business – be nice to everyone and all that.

I was in this sheltered little environment where, basically, all my high school experience was in ‘Life Goes On,’ and everyone told me where to go, what to do, how to think – I never had to do anything for myself.

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I’ve been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I’ve seen things you only read about and see on the news.

Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings – sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.

My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don’t know him at all. I had no male figures in my life, really. I had my godfather, but he’s more like a grandfather, so I was quite sheltered. I’ve never tried to find my father.

In America, we tend to be very sheltered, and I’m speaking from personal experience because I feel sheltered.

I came from a really small village outside Edinburgh in Scotland and had quite a sheltered upbringing.

You’re on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.

I wasn’t sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

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

I was a pretty sheltered kid, a slow starter. I was pretty secretive with my passion for music and, I guess, my talent and what-not.

We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we’ve developed.

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

My childhood was very sheltered. I grew up in a palace. But I lived in Morocco as a Moroccan citizen.

My parents always kept us in the house. We weren’t allowed to spend the night at other people’s houses. We were sheltered kids.

Work made me more streetwise because you can be so sheltered at home. I’d definitely encourage my kids Lillie and Karl, who are nine and seven, to get Saturday jobs in the future.

I’m interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.

The representation of the tabernacle arose out of the temple of Solomon as its root, in dependence on the sacred ark, for which there is early testimony, and which in the time of David, and also before it, was sheltered by a tent.

I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn’t sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you’re a teenager and you go to high school and you’re in the business and you are known.

My manager, my band members, we’re all good friends. You need that because a lot of times an artist will be so sheltered he will lose touch with what the fans want.

Dark books do appeal to kids because they have nice, sheltered lives – and they also appeal to children who are going through pretty hard times themselves.

The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn’t aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn’t know they existed. I was sheltered.

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn’t come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

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.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

I was a sheltered kid.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

I was kind of sheltered. I grew up in Silsbee, Texas, a town of 3,000 people.

Politicians in Washington work in a small, sheltered world where they lurch from crisis to crisis that they create, nurture and use as ideological triggers in their selfish pursuit of re-election.

Negroland is my name for a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty. Children in Negroland were warned that few Negroes enjoyed privilege or plenty and that most whites would be glad to see them returned to indigence, deference and subservience.

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.

I led a sheltered life until I went to college. But I wasn’t deprived and I can’t say I missed anything as a kid except a lot of heartaches.

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

Looking back, I can genuinely say that I am truly grateful that my parents sheltered us from the public eye. This may sound like an easy task, but it was probably the hardest thing they had to figure out as parents – how to give their kids a normal childhood even though they were always in the spotlight.

I’ve spent months living in Africa and India. So it’s not like I was sheltered when I started living in America. But my family laughed when they heard I was going to be in ‘Transformers.’ I learned a lot and got to experience Michael Bay’s mayhem. It was a very colorful experience.

The first ‘Polly and the Pirates’ is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she’s the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.

Being young and extremely naive and coming from a very sheltered place has been a slight disadvantage to me because in Edinburgh, if you meet someone and they’re nice, they just become your friend.

I was so sheltered as a kid that when I went to college, it was like taking the chains off. That’s where the trouble came from. It was the first time for me being by myself, and I got into everything you could think of.

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.

I was really sheltered growing up, with six brothers and sisters. We played together all the time, and I was living in a fantasy world, like most creative people.

We need a coordinated, citywide approach to make sure that everyone in San Francisco is sheltered and has access to the care they need.