Roof Quotes - Page 6

• 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 ended up dropping out of high school at 16 and getting kicked out of my home. My parents told me, sadly, that because I was so disruptive to the rest of the household, that I could no longer live under their roof.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Home, School, Parent

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• The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark beyond; the white squares were the roofs of the garage, the old barn, the rabbit hutches, the chicken coops. Further back there were only the flat fields of Dawson's farm, dimly white-striped. All the broad sky was grey, full of more snow that refused to fall. There was no colour anywhere.

  Susan Cooper

  Fall, Dark, White

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• When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Jobs, Dad, Dust

  "Palin on DHS employee running a hate site: This is 'stupidity on steroids, Obama administration!'". "On the Record", www.foxnews.com. August 23, 2013.

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• No, I don't think about the myth of the West. It's not the kind of thinking I do. That's more suited to people who live in big towns on the West Coast or East Coast, people who stay under a roof, in a room, all the time.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Thinking, People, East

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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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• The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.

  Steve Jobs

  Engineering, Apples, Long

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.41, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Drunk, Mind

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• There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would never have been another stanza written about rusting fathers and impotent steelworkers and the Bessemer convertor of love.

  Michael Chabon

  Father, Pittsburgh, Poet

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• I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that.

  Matt LeBlanc

  People, Waiting, Wish

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• So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Play, Two, House

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1994). “The Little House Book of Memories”, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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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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• 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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• In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Fall, Home, Blow

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• When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Costumes, Bees, Ridiculous

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• The learning curve on soaps is through the roof because it's a three-camera setup. There's a master and then there's two singles. And the great thing about soaps, and soap actors will tell you, is that when you get your line wrong, they don't re-shoot it. They just cut to the person listening.

  John C. McGinley

  Cutting, Curves, Two

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 10, 2006.

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• My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Husband, Father, Teenager

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• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Wisdom, Party

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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• I’m somebody who, as a child, had a lot of insecurity about stable housing, where I was going to be living, if I was going to have a roof over my head, all those types of things. And I know the impact it can have on you psychologically and emotionally.

  Jewel

  Children, Impact, Insecurity

  "Jewel Talks Singing Competitions, Silly Rumors For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.

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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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• 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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• In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought... I must put a roof on this toilet.

  Les Dawson

  Moon, Space, Heaven

  Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.19, Michael O'Mara Books

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• I always shoot for the moon in my work, so that I'm happy when I land on the roof.

  Darren Criss

  Moon, Land, Shoot For The Moon

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• I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.

  Gail Collins

  Dog, Vacation, White

  "Politicians, Love ’Em or Hate ’Em". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. September 21, 2011.

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