Roof Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.

  Walter Lippmann

  Ocean, Men, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.454, Harvard University Press

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• The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.

  Virginia Woolf

  War, Fighting, Clouds

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Collected Essays and Letters of Virginia Woolf - Including a Short Biography of the Author”, p.6, Read Books Ltd

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• Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.

  George Steiner

  Night, Lasts, Privacy

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.313, Oxford University Press on Demand

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

  Ernest Hello

  Art, Blow, Caves

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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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• 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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• The Indians the needed some food, and some skins for a roof. They only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the proof.

  Ted Nugent

  Baby, Animal, Skins

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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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• 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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• Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.

  Charles Dickens

  Uncles, Heart, Dark

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.429

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• They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.

  Charles Dickens

  Light, Glasses, Broken

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Mystery of Edwin Drood”, p.91, Castrovilli Giuseppe

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• And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

  Charles Dickens

  Issues, May, Stones

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales”, p.212, Courier Corporation

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• There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea.

  Charles Dickens

  Dust, Tea, Foundation

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.34

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• A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Heaven, House

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• 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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• The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.

  William C. Bryant

  Men, Silence, Sound

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Forest Hymn”

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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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• That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.

  William Shakespeare

  Cities, Foundation, Way

  William Shakespeare (2012). “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, p.67, Hackett Publishing

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• Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.

  Charles Dickens

  Night, Giving, Church

  Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, George Cruikshank, John Leech, Sir John Tenniel (1868). “Works of Charles Dickens: Dombey and son”, p.17

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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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• No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

  Alexander Pope

  Dying, Saint, Silver

  Alexander Pope, John Butt (1963). “Poems”, p.256, Yale University Press

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