Roof Quotes - Page 18

• Hitler built a fortress around Europe, but he forgot to put a roof on it.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Europe, Air Power, Aviation

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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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• Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Love, Rain, Men

  "Love Is Not All" l. 1 (1931)

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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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• I sandpapered the roof of my mouth with 3 bowls of Cap'n Crunch - had raw gobbets of mouth-beef dangling onto my tongue all day

  Douglas Coupland

  Beef, Mouths, Tongue

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• Being dismantled before our eyes are not just individual programs that politicians cite as too expensive but the whole idea that society has a stake in the well-being of children down the block and the security of families on the other side of town. Whether or not kids eat well, are nurtured and have a roof over their heads is not just a consequence of how their parents behave. It is also a responsibility of society--but now apparently a diminishing one.

  Richard Stolley

  Children, Block, Kids

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• The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance.

  George Orwell

  Distance, Cat, Animal

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.11, Hamilton Books

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• The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Сrown. It may be frail - its roof may shake - the wind may blow through it - the storm may enter - the rain may enter - but the King of England cannot enter.

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

  Kings, Rain, Blow

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham's speech on the Excise Bill in the House of Commons (March 1763), as quoted in Lord Brougham "Historical Sketches of Statesmen Who Flourished in the Time of George III, Volume I" (p. 42), 1839.

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• She [my mother] struggled, abusing alcohol for quite some time, and so we just kind of drifted apart. I went to college. But I dedicate the book to her because she is the true champion of the family. She kept our family together. She provided us with a roof over our head. She always worked.

  Hope Solo

  Mother, Book, College

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The Phrygians select a natural hillock, run a trench through the middle of it, dig passages, and extend the interior space as widely as the site admits. Over it they build a pyramidal roof of logs fastened together, and this they cover with reeds and brushwood, heaping up very high mounds of earth above their dwellings. Thus their fashion in houses makes their winters very warm and their summers very cool.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Summer, Running, Fashion

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book II, Chapter I, Section 5,

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• What's cool about renting is that you don't care about your house getting destroyed. So I think that is the number-one thing. Just going "Sure, you can jump off the roof. I think that's safe! Let's just paint on the walls! I bet the beer bottle will break before it shatters the window!" Not caring about the environment is a plus. And a ton of booze. And underage kids. That just ups the excitement value of the party, like, "Oh my God, we could all go to prison."

  Adam DeVine

  Wall, Party, Kids

  "Adam Devine on How to Throw a House Party". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.esquire.com. October 24, 2013.

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• If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings. If you stand quietly, at the foot of a garden, in the middle of the street, on the roof of a house. It's clearest at night, when the sound cuts more sharply across the surface of things, when the song reaches out to a place inside you. It's a wordless song, for the most, but it's a song all the same, and nobody hearing it could doubt what it sings. And the song sings the loudest when you pick out each note.

  Jon McGregor

  Song, Cutting, Night

  Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.8, HMH

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• A climb-out fight is where you climb a building. You climb fire escapes. You climb to the top of the building. You fight on the roof, and you fight all the way down again.

  Jack Kirby

  Fighting, Fire, Way

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• I don't want to jump off the roof or jump for joy depending on my movie reviews, or whether it makes money. I think the larger, more meaningful things are family and the people you love.

  Ben Affleck

  Meaningful, Thinking, People

  Mirror interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 30, 2008.

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• I'm one of those people who knows how lucky she is. And every day, I look around the house, and I count my blessings. They're all there under that roof.

  Sandra Bullock

  Blessing, People, House

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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.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Lakes, Jewels, Railroads

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• A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. So many flowers fell from the sky that in the morning the streets were carpeted with a compact cushion and they had to clear them away with shovels and rakes so that the funeral procession could pass by.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Morning, Fall, Rain

  "One Hundred Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.nytimes.com. 1967.

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• In the same way that a tornado rips the roof off a double-wide trailer, leaving the occupants dazed and staring at the clouds from the splinters of what used to be their living room, it was over.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Rip, Clouds, Leaving

  Augusten Burroughs (2004). “Running With Scissors”, p.185, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It's all Trump all day long [on CNN]. That's why their ratings are through the roof.

  Donald Trump

  Cnn, Long, Rating

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.

  Langston Hughes

  Song, Rain, Sleep

  Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard (2003). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Works for children and young adults: poetry, fiction, and other writing”, p.52, University of Missouri Press

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• The family consists of those who live under the same roof with the pater familias ; those who form (if I may use the expression) his fire-side.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fire, Expression, Use

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• I was going to be the best paper boy ever. I used my Sting-Ray bike and got the papers there after school. People know I porched everything. No roofs, no lawns. I stopped the bike and nailed it. And if I ever missed, I would go pick it up and do it right.

  Gary Carter

  School, Boys, People

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• You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

  Epictetus

  Mean, House, Soul

  Epictetus (1877). “The Discourses of Epictetus: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”, p.422

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• As I look back on it now, I'm thinking of one very vital factor, that one factor being that I was afforded the luxury - the luxurious opportunity - of finally being able to put something back. As a child growing up, it was his [Frank Sinatra] efforts that put a roof over my head, food in my stomach, clothes on my back, and that got me an education and sent me to the doctor when I was sick. All those things a child could benefit from parent. I did not want to be in a position where all I had ever done was take, take, take, frankly.

  Frank Sinatra, Jr.

  Children, Growing Up, Opportunity

  "A recent interview with Frank Sinatra Jr., who died this week". Interview with Mike Holtzclaw, www.dailypress.com. March 17, 2016.

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• It’s been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof - it’s time to reveal the truth about what happened between him and the pavement.

  Steven Moffat

  Long, Pavement, Holmes

  "First Official Image from Season 3 of SHERLOCK Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman" by Dave Trumbore, collider.com. November 4, 2013.

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