Roof Quotes - Page 4

• Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

  Carl Sandburg

  Happiness, Summer, Song

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Because Hillary Clinton wants to double-up and triple-up on Obamacare, the numbers will go through the roof. Your taxes will double and triple, and in the end it's not affordable. You can't do it.

  Donald Trump

  Obamacare, Numbers, Want

  "Donald Trump’s campaign has become one big airing of grievances". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

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• If the roof caves in and the tenants are sitting in the debris, they will laugh like hell. They will endure any hardship as long as it means trouble for the landlord.

  Harry Golden

  Mean, Adversity, Long

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• We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Money, Real

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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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• 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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• The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

  Robert Duvall

  New York, Special, Used

  "HuffPost Interview: Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek, Get Low". Interview with Marshall Fine, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2010.

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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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• I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?

  Chris Isaak

  People, Paper, Rock N Roll

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• When you come from the working class and you do well enough whereby you can provide a little bit better for your family, get a decent roof over their head and send them to a good school, that's considered a good thing.

  Michael Moore

  School, Class, Littles

  "Michael and me". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2004.

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• I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.

  Viggo Mortensen

  People, World, Breakfast

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• A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

  Martha Plimpton

  Country, Struggle, People

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• I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.

  Paula Poundstone

  Laughter, Children, Grateful

  "Thanksgiving Is Not Just for Leftovers" by Paula Poundstone, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2008.

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• God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

  Ramakrishna

  Important, Rope, Bamboo

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe; And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.

  William Blake

  Daughter, Song, Flower

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.409, Univ of California Press

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• The roofs are shining from the rain,
  The sparrows twitter as they fly,
  And with a windy April grace
  The little clouds go by.
  Yet the back yards are bare and brown
  With only one unchanging tree-
  I could not be so sure of Spring
  Save that it sings in me.

  Sara Teasdale

  Spring, Rain, Clouds

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.

  Charles Dickens

  Dog, Attitude, Philosophy

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”

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• Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clouds to one great roof of flame above the earth, so that I walk through fire, beneath fire, and all in beauty. Being alone I could not be alone, but felt (closer than flesh) the presence of those who once had burned in such transfigurations. My happiness ran through the centuries in one continual brightness. Looking down, I saw the earth beneath me like a rose petaled with mountains, fragrant with deep peace.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Sunset, Night, Flames

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• Many changes have taken place but one change remains the same that is your Task & Duty . You are required to ensure the security of this country against all the odds .What does that means to you ? It means you should have to fight & fight to win , there is no roof for the losers . If you lose don't come back , you will have disgraced the country & the country won't accept you

  Sam Manekshaw

  Country, Taken, Mean

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• Damn where my roof just go? Top slipped off like Janet at the Super Bowl.

  Drake

  Humble, Super Bowl, Bragging

  Song: Money 2 Blow

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• lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

  Paul Farmer

  Health, School, People

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• As my good friend Al Capp told me a few years ago, the best thing to do with a confirmed [hotel] reservation slip when you have no room is to spread it out on the sidewalk in front of the hotel and go to sleep on it. You'll either embarrass the hotel into giving you a room or you'll be hauled off to the local jug, where at least you'll have a roof over your head.

  Art Buchwald

  Travel, Sleep, Good Friend

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• Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.

  Roger Bannister

  Sports, Athlete, Home

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• Let the rain kiss you.
  Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.
  Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
  The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.
  The rain makes running pools in the gutter.
  The rain plays a little sellp-song on our roof at night-
  And I love the rain.

  Langston Hughes

  Running, Song, Spring

  Langston Hughes (2015). “Sail Away”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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