Roof Quotes - Page 8

• There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house.

  Anne Tyler

  Rain, House, Peaceful

  Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet

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• Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Sleep, Men, Jail

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• When a destitute mother starts earning an income, her dreams of success invariably center around her children. A woman's second priority is the household. She wants to buy utensils, build a stronger roof, or find a bed for herself and her family. A man has an entirely different set of priorities. When a destitute father earns extra income, he focuses more attention on himself. Thus money entering a household through a woman brings more benefits to the family as a whole.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Mother, Dream, Children

  "Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty". Book by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

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• I'm relieved Peeta's alive. I tell myself again that if I get killed, his winnings will benefit my mother and Prim the most. This is what I tell myself to explain the conflicting emotions that arise when I think of Peeta. The gratitude that he game an edge by professing his love for me in the interview. The anger at his superiority on the roof. The dread that we may come face-to-face at any moment in this arena.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Gratitude, Winning

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• So the first thing we're gonna do," I told him, "is push you off the roof.

  James Patterson

  Firsts

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• Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.

  John Green

  Mean, Guy, Sound

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• Hers was a memory made up of snapshorts: being dragged through the snow by a pack of wolves, first kiss tasting of oranges, saying goodbye behind a cracked windshield. A life made up of promises of what could be: the possibilities contained in a stack of college applications, the thrill of sleeping under a strange roof, the future that lay in Sam's smile. It was a life I didn't want to leave behind. It was a life I didn't want to forget I wasn't done with it yet. There was so much more to say.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Goodbye, Memories, Sleep

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• Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years.

  Steven Chu

  Light, Years, Car

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• These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. . . . She had not lost it. She was touching it with her fingertips. This was flying: to go swiftly over the earth you loved, touching it lightly with your fingertips, holding the railroads lines in your hand to guide you, like a skein of wool in a spider-web game - like following Ariadne's thread through the Minotaur's maze, Where would it lead, where?

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Lakes, Hands, Jewels

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• It is easy enough to tell the poor to accept their poverty as Gods will when you yourself have warm clothes and plenty of food and medical care and a roof over your head and no worry about the rent. But if you want them to believe youtry to share some of their poverty and see if you can accept it as Gods will yourself!

  Thomas Merton

  War, Believe, Roof Over Your Head

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.179, New Directions Publishing

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• I THINK IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE CONVENTIONALLY ROMANTIC YOU'VE GOT TO GO ALL THE WAY: A BEAUTIFUL DINNER SOMEWHERE LOVELY, WITH BOAT-LOADS OF FLOWERS, CHOCOLATES AND CHAMPAGNE. BUT IT MIGHT ALSO BE NICE TO WRAP UP WARM AND SIT ON A ROOF SOMEWHERE, WITH A CUP OF HOT SOUP AND YOUR GIRL, WATCH THE PLANES COME IN OVER LONDON AND LISTEN TO THE NIGHT.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Beautiful, Girl, Nice

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• Summer came. For the book thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. When their bodies had finished scouring for gaps in the door, their souls rose up. When their fingernails had scratched at the wood and in some cases were nailed into it by the sheer force of desperation, their spirits came toward me, into my arms, and we climbed out of those shower facilities, onto the roof and up, into eternity's certain breadth. They just kept feeding me. Minute after minute. Shower after shower.

  Markus Zusak

  Summer, Book, Doors

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• You don't fear me," he said now. She wasn't stupid enough to lie. "I'm petrified. But I figure you didn't make me come all this way just so you could push me off the roof.

  Nalini Singh

  Lying, Stupid, Way

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.24, Penguin

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• Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you've brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy in bed. They happen when you are cold and uncomfortable and hungry and don't have a roof over your head for the night.

  Ellen Potter

  Night, Roof Over Your Head, Interesting

  Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.58, Macmillan

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• Lord Nicholas St. John was their only hope, and she had been on the roof when he arrived, for heaven's sake. Ladies did not go traipsing about on rooftops. And certainly gentlemen did not frequent the homes of those ladies who did traipse about on roortops. It did not matter if the rooftop in question was in dire need of repair. Or that the lady in question had no choice.

  Sarah MacLean

  Home, Choices, Heaven

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• Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered. "Flee, then. I will hold them enough to ensure your escape no more." Quick Ben sank down past the roof. Before he passed from sight Pearl spoke again. "Ben Adaephon Delat, do you pity me?" "Yes" he replied softly, then pivoted and dropped down into darkness.

  Steven Erikson

  Past, Sight, Darkness

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• Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Rain, Night, Love Is

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• When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night.

  Alice Hoffman

  Husband, Dark, Night

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.260, Penguin Group

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• The new energy future is decentralised, entrepreneurial and needs people like you to say 'Give me a clean car, give me solar shingles to put on my roof - give me a clean future'

  William J. Clinton

  Future, People, Giving

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• Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Stars, Wall, Sleep

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes: Stevenson's Vol. 5”, p.41, VM eBooks

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• Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

  Sappho

  Men, Beam, Carpenter

  "Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation".

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• Were I
  as quiet as thunder,
  how I'd wail and whine!
  One groan of mine
  would start the world's crumbling cloister shivering.
  And if
  I'd end up by roaring
  with all of its power of lungs and more -
  the comets, distressed, would wring their hands
  and from the sky's roof
  leap in a fever.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Hands, Sky, Roaring

  Vladimir Mayakovsky (1985). “Селестед Воркс ин Тхрее Волумес: Селестед версе”

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• I really like umbrellas. It's like, I have a roof! I carry it with me! Umbrellas always amuse me.

  John Green

  Umbrella

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• For many of us we are always wanting more - we would be happier if we had such and such. Maybe we should pause for a moment and hear what some people in the third world countries would like to make them happier. 1. Having enough to eat so when you go to sleep at night your stomach doesn't ach. 2. Having shoes on your feet and any kind of clothing to keep the cold out. 3. Having a roof over your head. 4. Having the hope that you'll be lucky enough to get some kind of an education. 5. Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Dream, Country, Believe

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• You get into trouble if you criticize big business. The roof falls in if you criticize Congress. And we're getting increasingly cautious in criticizing the Administration. The pressures are getting worse.

  Howard K. Smith

  Fall, Pressure, Administration

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