Roof Quotes

• If you run from a leaking roof you'll end up with a flood.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Running, Ends, Flood

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• The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.144, Best Books on

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• Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love brought together under one roof.

  Nate Berkus

  Love, Home, Together

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• Look for happiness under your own roof.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Looks

  FaceBook post by Gretchen Rubin from May 15, 2016

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• The sky's the limit if you have a roof over your head.

  Sol Hurok

  Sky, Roof Over Your Head, Limits

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• No known roof is as beautiful as the skies above.

  Micheal O Muircheartaigh

  Beautiful, Sky, Known

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• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

  James Russell Lowell

  Compromise, Poor, Umbrella

  1884 'On Democracy', speech in Birmingham, 6 Oct.

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• There's something about a roof isn't there? It makes you feel like it doesn't matter what's going on below. All of those things that get in the way of your dreams - you're above them. Anything is possible.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Dream, Matter, Way

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• Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Laughter, Roof Over Your Head

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Fall, Might, Happens

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• Another roof, another proof.

  Paul Erdos

  Collaboration, Proof

  "A Tribute to Paul Erdos". Book edited by Alan Baker, Bela Bollobas and Andras Hajnal, December 13, 1990.

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• I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.

  Enid Blyton

  Kind, Knows, Exploring

  "The Rubadub Mystery". Book by Enid Blyton, www.theguardian.com. 1951.

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• If it's raining you can't fix the roof, if it's not raining it doesn't need to be fixed

  Jim Rohn

  Rain, Needs, Fixed

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• The shelter of excuses has a leaky roof.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Shelter, Excuse

  "Lift Me UP! Service With A Smile". Book by Ron Kaufman, 2005.

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• Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

  Willa Cather

  Sky, World, Earth

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.232, Vintage

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• When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this?

  Rumi

  Night, Sky, Climbs

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.82, Lulu.com

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• Like a cat on a hot tin roof.

  Tennessee Williams

  Cat, Hot, Tin

  "Fictional character: Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt". "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", www.imdb.com. 1958.

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• When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.

  Robert Pinsky

  Audacity, Made

  Robert Pinsky (2015). “Jersey Rain: Poems”, p.5, Macmillan

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• When you are caught in the heavy rains of anger, open the umbrella of mind, take refuge under the roof of reason!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rain, Anger, Mind

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• Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps' nest.

  Matsuo Basho

  Spring, Rain, May

  Matsuo Basho, “Spring Rain”

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• The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dream, Hope, Life Lesson

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, 1990.

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• One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Wall, Moon, Sun

  Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.347, A&C Black

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• Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

  Confucius

  Snow, Complaining, Neighbor

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• Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Chef, Cholesterol, Mines

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• Come! let us take a moment's shelter under some roof
  Look! there - before you, a little way off
  There is an empty space
  Between truth and falsehood.

  Amrita Pritam

  Space, Looks, Shelter

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