Roof Quotes - Page 8

• That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin.

  William Shakespeare

  Cities, Foundation, Way

  William Shakespeare (2012). “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, p.67, Hackett Publishing

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• Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.

  George Steiner

  Night, Lasts, Privacy

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.313, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.

  William C. Bryant

  Men, Silence, Sound

  William Cullen Bryant, “A Forest Hymn”

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• The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that we are a free people fighting to defend freedom. That is the current that has whirled the young airman up into the sky and keeps him circulating there among the clouds. Down here, with a roof to cover us and a gasmask handy, it is our business to puncture gasbags and discover the seeds of truth.

  Virginia Woolf

  War, Fighting, Clouds

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Collected Essays and Letters of Virginia Woolf - Including a Short Biography of the Author”, p.6, Read Books Ltd

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• The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.

  Walter Lippmann

  Ocean, Men, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.454, Harvard University Press

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• We tend to harp on little things, or worry about something, when, really, it's just not that important. If you have a roof over your head, and you're healthy, and your family is healthy, that's all that matters. Don't let the little things get you down.

  Asher Roth

  Roof Over Your Head, Worry, Healthy

  "Interview with Asher Roth: Swim Naked and Don't Sweat the Small Stuff". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.

  Charles Dickens

  Night, Giving, Church

  Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne, George Cruikshank, John Leech, Sir John Tenniel (1868). “Works of Charles Dickens: Dombey and son”, p.17

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• My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.' I painted a Union Jack on the roof. I was absolutely in love with it until I destroyed it, which broke my heart!

  Richard Hammond

  Brother, Heart, Car

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

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• You need to eat well, sleep well, and have a roof over your head, but don’t go much further than that before extending yourself to others.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Sleep, Roof Over Your Head, Needs

  Sakyong Mipham (2005). “Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life”, p.64, Harmony

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• My real dwelling
  Has no pillars
  And no roof either
  So rain cannot soak it
  And wind cannot blow
  it down.

  Ikkyu

  Real, Rain, Blow

  Ikkyū (2003). “Wild Ways: Zen Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

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• Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing for my supper, to make art, beautiful and powerful, that adds and reveals; to beautify the mess of a messy world, to heal the sick and feed the helpless; to shout bravely from the roof-tops and storm barricaded doors and voice the specifics of our historic moment.

  Carrie Mae Weems

  Beautiful, Art, Powerful

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• I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

  Frances Farmer

  Dirty, Night, Hands

  "God Dies". Essay by Frances Farmer, 1931.

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• Anything that happens that's good, they think, Oh, it's an accident, when is the roof caving in? You've got to get them out of that mental framework.

  Dick Butkus

  Sports, Thinking, Mental Health

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• After weeks of watching the roof leak I fixed it tonight by moving a single board

  Gary Snyder

  Nature, Moving, Boards

  Gary Snyder (1971). “The Back Country”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up.

  Hudson Taylor

  Christian, Religious, Looks

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• Every lover is a storm chaser.
  Every good heart has lost its roof.

  Andrea Gibson

  Heart, Storm, Lovers

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• And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. For now, do not worry about "proper" praying, just talk to God.

  Richard J. Foster

  Prayer, Worry, Ongoing

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in a city - as one loses oneself in a forest - that calls for a quite different schooling. Then, signboard and street names, passers-by, roofs, kiosks, or bars must speak to the wanderer like a cracking twig under his feet in the forest.

  Walter Benjamin

  Ignorance, Feet, Cities

  Walter Benjamin (1996). “Selected Writings: 1927-1934”, p.598, Harvard University Press

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• But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?

  Billie Burke

  People, Laughing, Sound

  Billie Burke (2015). “With A Feather On My Nose”, p.248, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth.

  Pharrell Williams

  Rooms, Feels, Ifs

  "Happy". Song by Pharrell L Williams, 2014.

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• Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father--who had to say so--told me I was good. At anything. It was a turning point in my life. I went to bed thinking about acting. I woke up thinking about acting. It was like the roof had come off my life!

  Jane Fonda

  Father, Real, Thinking

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• The Indians the needed some food, and some skins for a roof. They only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the proof.

  Ted Nugent

  Baby, Animal, Skins

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• Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled all, all these places now. Make them all just tourist traps.

  David Walker

  Tourism, Tourists, Bars

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• I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing.

  Matt LeBlanc

  House, Electricity

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• One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Dust, Never Settle, Television

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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