Flattened tin cans covered the roof

The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens…

— Pablo Picasso

Some would call me an environmentalist. I don't know why. I reuse the water that falls in my backyard in the winter. I reuse…

— Ed Begley, Jr

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

— John Berger

A home isn't just a roof over our heads. A home is a place where we feel loved and where we love others. It's…

— Hermann Hesse

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

— Billie Burke

You know what I was thinking about on my way home? How different my life would be if you’d made that gash a little…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

Rev Run is a living legend of Hip-Hop, who's still making great music, but now he's also the dad to an amazing family, ...…

— Tony DiSanto

There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would…

— Michael Chabon

We are living at a time where a handful of people have wealth beyond comprehension - huge yachts, jet planes, tens of billions of…

— Bernie Sanders

The only thing is that ordinarily when I do dance with [women] they think I am suddenly going to throw them over a table…

— Gene Kelly

A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy, no? But here, in our little village of Anatevka, you might say every one of us is…

— Sheldon Harnick

There's another problem," Percy said. "I'm not good with air travel. It's dangerous for a son of Neptune." "You'll have to risk it...and so…

— Rick Riordan

All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of…

— Robert Bly

Okay, so, flying,” I started, taking a deep breath and focusing on the thing I loved most in the world. “Flying is … great.…

— James Patterson

Raise high the roof beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

— Sappho