Roof Quotes - Page 23

• Think of your husband as a house. You are allowed to give him a fresh coat of paint and change out the furniture now and then. But if you're constantly trying to pour a new foundation or replace the roof, you're in serious trouble.

  Peter Scott

  Husband, Thinking, Giving

  Peter Scott (2008). “There's a Spouse in My House: A Humorous Journey Through the First Years of Marriage”, p.105, Penguin

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• Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.

  William Ellery Channing

  Book, Men, Every Man

  William Ellery CHANNING (1839). “Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838”, p.17

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• The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal.

  John Sexton

  Artist, Thinking, Tree

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• The practical answer is, no it would be totally impossible for young or foreign people to get access to roof of a building that stands in the heart of a giant city and to put a cable across.

  Philippe Petit

  Heart, Cities, People

  Source: collider.com

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• If you're worried about putting food on the table or putting a roof over your head, that stress is definitely will contribute to unhappiness, but once you have your basic needs met then incremental money.

  Tony Hsieh

  Stress, Roof Over Your Head, Needs

  "Big Think Interview With Tony Hsieh". Interview with Peter Hopkins, bigthink.com. September 24, 2010.

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• I think by take eight you're kind of going, "Oh, wow, I don't know if I want to fall entirely off the roof again." That stuff is tough, and I'm also not 21 anymore. I just don't like cement. Cement isn't hilarious any more.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Fall, Thinking, Eight

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• After kids leave the house, they can decide to do whatever they want, but while they're under my roof, they're going to be lawyers or writers or something, something important, anything except actors.

  John Leguizamo

  Kids, House, Important

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm a Frisbeetarian. We worship frisbees. We believe when you die your soul goes up on the roof and you can't get it down.

  Jim Stafford

  Believe, Soul, Worship

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• Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything.

  Rumi

  Eye, Doe, Gone

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• About five years ago I saw a mockingbird make a straight vertical descent from the roof gutter of a four-story building. It was an act as careless and spontaneous as the curl of a stem or the kindling of a star.

  Annie Dillard

  Stars, Years, Curls

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.104, Canongate Books

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• Always will I dig for reasons to applaud; never will I scratch for excuses to gossip. When I am tempted to criticize I will bite on my tongue; when I am moved to praise I will shout from the roofs.

  Og Mandino

  Gossip, Scratches, Tongue

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.51, Bantam

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• I look at camping the same way I look at horror movies. All the years that humans fought to get into caves and into shelters - it almost seems sacrilegious to go outside and sleep without a roof. We work so hard to have these things!

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sleep, Years, Camping

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• God works funny so it might have just been meant for me to be an artist that doesn't sell two million records. Maybe my records might change somebody's life rather than sell thru the roof.

  Mic Geronimo

  Artist, Two, Records

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Gastronomy is the French Foreign Legion. You don't need any qualifications. Just walk through the door and keep your head down. Be respectful - "Yes chef!" - and you'll be given a trade. One day you'll be in a position where you can put a roof over your children's heads, you can put food on their table, create security for them.

  Marco Pierre White

  Children, Doors, Over You

  Source: tart.org

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• Right now in the insurance markets, we have sort of a disaster unfolding, a downward spiral, adverse selection, premiums in the individual market going through the roof. People can't afford insurance and insurance companies are losing hundreds of millions of dollars. If you repeal part of Obamacare to get rid of the individual mandate but keep some of the ideas, that people can still buy insurance after they're sick, the situation gets extraordinarily worse. And so what we're seeing now could be tenfold greater if you only repeal part of Obamacare.

  Rand Paul

  Ideas, Obamacare, Sick

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Vienna is cold, and dark, and sad. It is laid out as though for a royal parade; the streets are wide and they're flanked by monumental buildings, decorated with the faces of angry gods. And on the roof are statues of national heroes, wielding weapons of destruction.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hero, Dark, Vienna

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• I grew up in the South Side, and when we would have snow and blizzards and drifts, we would jump off the garage roof into the snow. Now if I'm up on a step ladder and I think I'm going to fall, it's a foot and a half off the ground, but I'm panicked about it. So I'm afraid of ladders and those beds.

  Jimmy Pardo

  Fall, Thinking, Feet

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We have reduced poverty in the world by 50% since the year 1970 - the number of people who go to bed hungry, the number of people that have to sleep without a roof over their heads, the number of people that are illiterate.The world is better.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Sleep, Years, Numbers

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called "old-fashioned," who are like tumbledown picturesque little houses, delightful in their simplicity and complete unlikeness to the new smooth buildings whose walls have not yet been discolored by the rain, whose roofs are not yet covered with green lichen, and whose porch does not display its bricks through the peeling stucco.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Wall, Rain, Russia

  Nikolai Gogol (1985). “The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

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• Golden roofs break men's rest.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Golden, Wealth

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• I took a small flat for myself and the children ... My husband took a room in a clean rooming house within easy walking distance of his office. ... It is wonderful sometimes to be alone in the night and just know that someone loves you. In other moods you must have that lover in your arms. Marriage under two roofs makes room for moods.

  Crystal Eastman

  Marriage, Children, Husband

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on women and revolution”, Oxford University Press

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• You're talking about the 1970s now and not the 1950s. We were all more sophisticated by that time, and I just assumed he was gay. But I do remember when we were all sitting around on a roof one night and Larry turned to me and said, "You do know I'm gay, don't you?" There was a statement made. A declaration. We just never had really talked about it.

  Kevin Sessums

  Gay, Night, Talking

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• I put food on the table
  and roof overhead.
  But I'd trade it all tomorrow
  for the highway instead.

  Tom Waits

  Tables, Tomorrow, Trade

  Song: Long Way Home

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• I want to offer a word of encouragement to authors: You have to feel called to the message of your book enough that you want people to get that message. When you get to that place, your passion goes through the roof, and then the other stuff happens.

  Jud Wilhite

  Encouragement, Book, Passion

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• To actually unleash an entire generation to do what they've already been trained to do. They've done the work, they have the degrees, they have the passion, but they're working two or three part-time low-wage, temporary jobs just to keep a roof over their heads.

  Jill Stein

  Jobs, Passion, Two

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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