Roof Quotes

• Look for happiness under your own roof.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Inspirational, Happiness, Looks

  FaceBook post by Gretchen Rubin from May 15, 2016

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• You've gotta blow the roof off of your heart and let the universe in.

  Lou Reed

  Heart, Blow, Universe

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• Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love brought together under one roof.

  Nate Berkus

  Love, Home, Together

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• Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Husband, Home, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.271, Penguin

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• The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.144, Best Books on

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• If you run from a leaking roof you'll end up with a flood.

  Mahmoud Abbas

  Running, Ends, Flood

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• The sky's the limit if you have a roof over your head.

  Sol Hurok

  Sky, Roof Over Your Head, Limits

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• Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.

  Paul Goldberger

  Sadness, Delight, Matter

  Paul Goldberger (2014). “Why Architecture Matters”, p.10, Yale University Press

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• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

  James Russell Lowell

  Compromise, Poor, Umbrella

  1884 'On Democracy', speech in Birmingham, 6 Oct.

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• No known roof is as beautiful as the skies above.

  Micheal O Muircheartaigh

  Beautiful, Sky, Known

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• There's something about a roof isn't there? It makes you feel like it doesn't matter what's going on below. All of those things that get in the way of your dreams - you're above them. Anything is possible.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Dream, Matter, Way

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• If it's raining you can't fix the roof, if it's not raining it doesn't need to be fixed

  Jim Rohn

  Rain, Needs, Fixed

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• Another roof, another proof.

  Paul Erdos

  Collaboration, Proof

  "A Tribute to Paul Erdos". Book edited by Alan Baker, Bela Bollobas and Andras Hajnal, December 13, 1990.

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• Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

  Confucius

  Snow, Complaining, Neighbor

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• Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Laughter, Roof Over Your Head

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.

  Enid Blyton

  Kind, Knows, Exploring

  "The Rubadub Mystery". Book by Enid Blyton, www.theguardian.com. 1951.

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• Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

  Willa Cather

  Sky, World, Earth

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.232, Vintage

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• Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's enemies-- but not before they have been hanged.

  Heinrich Heine

  Flower, Heart, Humble

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• The shelter of excuses has a leaky roof.

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Shelter, Excuse

  "Lift Me UP! Service With A Smile". Book by Ron Kaufman, 2005.

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• The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Dream, Hope, Life Lesson

  "Animal Dreams". Book by Barbara Kingsolver, 1990.

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• The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

  Laozi

  Wall, Reality, Space

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• The roof might fall in; anything could happen.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Fall, Might, Happens

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• One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Wall, Moon, Sun

  Khaled Hosseini (2008). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.347, A&C Black

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• Like a cat on a hot tin roof.

  Tennessee Williams

  Cat, Hot, Tin

  "Fictional character: Margaret "Maggie" Pollitt". "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", www.imdb.com. 1958.

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• When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

  John Berger

  Wall, Book, Reading

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.15, Vintage

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