Roof Quotes - Page 26

• The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

  Ed Bradley

  Paris, Clothes, Months

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• Everything that I saw became something to be made, and it had to be exactly as it was, with nothing added. It was a new freedom: there was no longer the need to compose. The subject was there already made, and I could take from everything. It all belonged to me: a glass roof of a factory, with its broken and patched panels, lines on a road map, a corner of a Braque painting, paper fragments in the street. It was all the same: anything goes.

  Ellsworth Kelly

  Glasses, Broken, Paper

  Madeleine Grynsztejn, Ellsworth Kelly, Julian Myers, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002). “Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco”, p.10, Univ of California Press

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• The National is the most advanced package of technological wonders yet assembled under one roof.

  Jack Kroll

  Wonder, Technological, Packages

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• A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, House, Heaven

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• To really make it look like Santa came, I put reindeer poop on the roof. It's just so cold up there with my pants down.

  Dana Gould

  Poop, Looks, Santa

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• I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time. I prefer the saddle to the street car and the star sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities.

  Everett Ruess

  Stars, Tired, Sky

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• I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities. Do you blame me then for staying here, where I feel that I belong and am one with the world around me? It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty

  Everett Ruess

  Stars, Mean, Intelligent

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• Humble we must be, if to heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low.

  Robert Herrick

  Humble, Heaven, Lows

  Robert Herrick (1856). “Hesperides Or The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick”, p.236

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• I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.

  David Nicholls

  Fall, Believe, Snow

  David Nicholls (2014). “Us: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• It is better that you live in a one-room garret with a leaky roof, than live in a large house, the mortgage payments of which are causing your colon to turn cancerous!

  Stuart Wilde

  House, Rooms, Mortgage

  Stuart Wilde (1998). “The Trick to Money is Having Some”, p.21, Hay House, Inc

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• I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston.

  Dennis Eckersley

  Sports, Team, Boston

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• If you want to know how far gossip travels, do this - take a feather pillow up on a roof, slice it open, and let the feathers fly away on the wind. Then go and find every single feather and re-stuff the pillow.

  Rebecca Pidgeon

  Wind, Gossip, Want

  "Ordinary Blues" by Rebecca Pidgeon, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2005.

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• Climate experts say we should tell villagers in developing countries to reduce the amount of cooking smoke they generate to help fix global warming. You know, it's as if these people don't hate us enough already. I mean, they live in mud huts, they have thatch roofs, their clothes are made of straw. We pull up in a bunch of Humvees and SUVs going, 'Hey, you want to cut the smoke out of here?'

  Jay Leno

  Country, Hate, Mean

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• I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house, and on ALL that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!

  John Adams

  Wise, Honesty, Blessing

  Letter to Abigail Adams, 2 Nov. 1800

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• I get high like the clouds
  Gather every rapper up
  Bring em to the roof
  And watch em' fly for the Styles

  Styles P

  Weed, Rap, Clouds

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• New York wasn't everything I thought it would be. It did not welcome me with open arms. The first year, I was held up at gunpoint. Raped on the roof of a building I was dragged up to with a knife in my back, and had my apartment broken into three times. I don't know why; I had nothing of value after they took my radio the first time.

  Madonna Ciccone

  New York, Years, Knives

  "Madonna's Back". www.harpersbazaar.com. October 4, 2013.

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• Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof.

  Andy Samberg

  Snl, Viewers

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 1, 2007.

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• As for me, I know nothing else but miracles,
  Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan,
  Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky,
  Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water,
  Or stand under the trees in the woods,
  Or talk by day with any one I love,
  Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love,
  Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon...
  Or the wonderfulness of the sundown,
  Or of stars shining so quiet and bright,
  Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring...
  What stranger miracles are there?

  Walt Whitman

  Summer, Beach, Stars

  Walt Whitman, “Miracles”

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• I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books, somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Wall, Book, Fire

  Bruce Chatwin (2003). “In Patagonia”, p.27, Penguin

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• Damn where my roof just go, I'm somebody that you should know
  Get to shakin somethin cause that's what Drama produced it fo'

  Drake

  Drama, Causes, Bragging

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• To build a power plant and run lines to houses, to huts, to anything is a tremendous amount of work...how about...just giving them the service where they need it-on the roof of their hut.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Running, Wind, Giving

  "Eco-celebrity tries reality TV show". Interview with Sarah van Schagen, www.nbcnews.com. January 4, 2007.

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• The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Art, Giving, Needs

  Quoted in Sherman Albert Pinkham Ryder (1920).

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• As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  School, Mean, Clothes

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• O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.

  William Blake

  Dark, Winter, Doors

  William Blake (1953). “Selected poetry and prose”, Random House Inc

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• You've got this amazing creature- yourself- that can breathe, dance, and cry. And you have a certain amount of moments (maybe a few million moments-but moments they are) and you have this chance to do absolutely anything- to reach out to another vulnerable & true. To dance on the roof of euphoria and pray beside the ocean to let go. We have the chance every moment to Be Alive and give to this world who needs each one of us so badly.

  Sabrina Ward Harrison

  Life, Letting Go, Ocean

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