And on every rooftop stood unimaginably tall television…

You kids have fun, and be home by Thanksgiving!" our parents would call to us on Halloween night, as we staggered out the front…

— Dave Barry

Mountains have been formed by one [or other] of the causes of the formation of stone, most probably from agglutinative clay which slowly dried…

— Avicenna

“Memory is igneous more than ingenious, igneous, and like granite, intrusive, heaved up within oneself, the whole range of one's life, mountains' forbidding height…

— Dan Beachy-Quick

“Geologists think the mountains were formed by several distinct tectonic events over the course of 500 million years, a span of time that represents…

— Joel Achenbach

“Some rooftop, water-tank looming, street-racket strangely quelled and other known and unknown there, long sweet summer evening on the tarred roof: leaned back your…

— Adrienne Rich

“Suddenly, I found myself running along the rooftop, leaping and falling. Falling until I caught the zip-line handle and then I was zooming, flying…

— Maya Bode

Some people do want to stand on the rooftop and scream out their story. Others are cowering in the corner, or sitting with a…

— Lauren Myracle

Typically we don't think of cities as being particularly extreme environments, but few places on earth get as hot as a rooftop or as…

— Adam Rogers

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…

— Sarah MacLean

There's the sound of rain on the rooftop .

— Darius Rucker

Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

— Markus Zusak

“He's moving with such purpose that William is scared he might just speed right off the rooftop, like the roadrunner from the cartoons. Or…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

“Why does the rain make us feel so romantic and strange? Maybe it's the fact that we are unnatural spectators of it, from inside…

— Amelia Gray

“After joyfully working each morning, I would leave off around midday to challenge myself to a footrace. Speeding along the sunny paths of the…

— Roman Payne

This is not what it is like to be you, I realized as a few of your magnificent clouds flew over the rooftop. It…

— Billy Collins