Roof Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• My wife said, 'Can my mother come down for the weekend?' So I said, 'Why?' And she said, 'Well, she's been up on the roof two weeks already.'

  Bob Monkhouse

  Love, Funny, Mother

  "They're not laughing now". www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2003.

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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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• How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

  William Faulkner

  Rain, Home, Thinking

  William Faulkner (1955). “Faulkner's county: tales of Yoknapatawpha county”

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• Clap your hands if you feel like a room without a roof

  Pharrell Williams

  Hands, Rooms, Feels

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• Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.

  Bonnie Hunt

  Mean, Fire, Snow

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• Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.

  Mary Catherwood

  Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

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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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• I bring truth to tha youth tear tha roof off tha ol' school.

  Tupac Shakur

  School, Rapper, Tears

  Song: Holler If Ya' Hear Me

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• Lying on the roof counting the stars that fill the sky
  I wonder if
  Someone in the heavens looking back down on me
  I'll never know
  So much space to believe

  Dave Matthews

  Stars, Lying, Believe

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• The earth is all the home I have, the heavens my wide roof-tree

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun

  Home, Tree, Heaven

  William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1921). “Poems of William Edmondstoune Aytoun”

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• We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Tree, Old Friends, Eyesight

  P. G. Wodehouse (2015). “Right Ho, Jeeves”, p.15, Booklassic

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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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• A library is infinity under a roof.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Book, Library, Infinity

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• Outside, the rain sometimes comes down so hard, we have to talk louder, and it feels like a miracle that the roof holds. It makes for a coziness and a gratefulness, too, that you have the choice to not be out in it. You can sit at the table and look out the window and not have to feel what you see.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Rain, Choices, Miracle

  Elizabeth Berg (2002). “True To Form”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.

  Austin O'Malley

  Men, Neighbor, Clock

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• In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Rain, House

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• You see, we all want the same things. We want to be able to take care of our families, provide for our children, to have a roof over our heads and a good-paying job.

  Dennis Hastert

  Jobs, Children, Over You

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• What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.

  Tennessee Williams

  Cat, Long, Victory

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof act 1 (1955). Ellipses in the original.

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• Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. It's a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure.

  Linwood Barclay

  Work Out, Design, Foundation

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• You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can see the whole picture and finally understand the role each individual part plays. The dawn comes, the sky grows light, and the colors and shapes of the roofs of houses, which you could only glimpse vaguely before, come into focus.

  Haruki Murakami

  Fall, Light, Color

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• If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.

  Shimen Ruskin

  Death, Nice, Dying

  "Fictional character: Mordcha". "Fiddler on the Roof", www.imdb.com. 1971.

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• So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Jobs, Military

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of the Milky Way gets to meet the weaver girl on the other side of the Milky Way. They all get up on their roofs and watch that night. So they long for 365 days and then on the 365th night, they see the result of that longing.

  Robert Bly

  Girl, Boys, Night

  Source: www.utne.com

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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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