Sheltered Quotes

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 was sheltered by my parents, work and school. I walked out into the world and saw things I`d only read about. I learned the hard way. It was scary, but I saw I had two choices - sink or swim. I swam. And discovered I could actually make it to the shore, all on my own. Not that I wasn`t frightened or didn`t experience moments of panic. I did.

I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you`re 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.

As an artist, you`re pretty sheltered backstage. You often don`t know what`s going on out there.

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.

My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don`t have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant`s knee or something like that.

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`m not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence.

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.

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers` blood.

Our birds are all sheltered in indoor structures that are climate-controlled.

The truth is that while men, in our society, are encouraged to have strong egos and to function in competitive, aggressive, intellectualized modes that may indeed cause them pain, for most women the ego is like a fragile African Violet, grown in secret from a seed, carefully nursed and fertilized and sheltered from too much sun.