Roof Quotes - Page 7

• It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.

  Eric Cantona

  Sacrifice, People, Places To Live

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• But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

  Carol Burnett

  Dream, Roof Over Your Head, Tables

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• When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.

  John Berger

  Wall, Book, Reading

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.15, Vintage

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• There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Long, Joy, Bird

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.64

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• As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.

  Diane Ackerman

  Wall, Cities, Space

  "Living, Thinking Houses". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. August 4, 2012.

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• It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof.

  Bill Gates

  Kind, Solar Panels

  "Q&A: Bill Gates On The World’s Energy Crisis". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. June 20, 2011.

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• Exercising with a trainer makes my quality of life go through the roof.

  Nadia Giosia

  Exercise, Quality, Trainers

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• Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction's roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever And cold sleep all my kind, For I was born to shiver In the draft from an open mind.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Lying, Sleep, Forever

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• As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.

  Mark Galli

  Religious, Reality, Wade

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• Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead, Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.

  Thomas Heywood

  Cities, Fame, Seven

  The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels (1635)

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• Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate, Gothic, Romanesque, Greek Revival standing in a long line in the rain. Roman Catholic art. Sweeping front porches, turrets, cast-iron balconies, colonnades- 30-foot columns, gloriously beautiful- double pitched roofs, all the architecture of the whole wide world and it doesn't move.

  Bob Dylan

  Beautiful, Art, Moving

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• I was sat at the bottom of the garden a week ago, smoking a reflective cheroot, thinking about this and that - mostly that, and I just happened to glance at the night sky and I marvelled at the millions of stars glistening like pieces of quicksilver thrown carelessly onto black velvet. In awe I watched the waxen moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an amber chariot towards the void of infinite space wherein the tethered bolts of Jupiter and Mars hang forever in their orbital majesty; and as I looked at all this, I thought, 'I must put a roof on this lavatory.

  Les Dawson

  Stars, Moon, Night

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• I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

  George Henry Borrow

  Sleep, People, Tables

  George Henry Borrow (1843). “The Bible in Spain; Or the Journeys, Adventures and Imprisonnements of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula”, p.344

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• We both liked the idea but couldn't figure out a way to get up to the roof. Vince had just seen the Spider-Man movie and suggested we shoot webs out of our wrists and swing up there. We asked Vince not to contribute any more ideas.

  Chris Jericho

  Men, Swings, Wwe

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• Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will become shady routes carved through the undergrowth. Roofs will become mountain tops. People will become ants.

  Tom Turner

  Opportunity, Cities, People

  Tom Turner (2014). “City as Landscape: A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning”, p.98, Taylor & Francis

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• I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in.

  Isambard Kingdom Brunel

  Engineering, Design, Fancy

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• For many of us, the computer is the means by which we earn a living. To give it a nod, then, is a way of thanking the tool for what it provides in life. It helps put bread on the table and a roof overhead. It gives us work and pleasure, exercises our minds, brings us information, connects us with other people. It is a partner helping us achieve our goals. Nodding also thanks the unseen hands and minds who helped create our machine.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Gratitude, Mean, Exercise

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• I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

  Cathy Rigby

  Hurt, Parent, Bed

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• I grew up in the South Bronx, raised by my grandmother, who scrapped and scraped to make sure I had a roof over my head and food in my stomach. I was painfully aware of what it was like to live with limited resources and a certain level of uncertainty.

  Joy Bryant

  Grandmother, Limited Resources, Levels

  "Actress + Oxfam Ambassador Joy Bryant". ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 17, 2015.

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• The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves.

  Pablo Picasso

  People, Sculpture, Athens

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• Families want their child to get an education; families want safe access to healthcare; families want a roof over their head. When we silo issues, we end up with solutions that are in conflict with each other.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Children, Issues, Safe

  "Founder of Small Works Cameron Sinclair Afghanistan, Syria, and the Architecture of Empowerment". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned.

  Ernest Hello

  Art, Blow, Caves

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• Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?

  Bernard Malamud

  Stars, Adventure, Moon

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.144, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?

  William C. Bryant

  Hands, Years, World

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Forest Hymn”

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• I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.

  Jackie French

  School, Kids, Garden

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