A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
[on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no sound more peaceful than rain on the roof, if you're safe asleep in someone else's house. — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Ross held her face between his hands and kissed her. He tasted doubt on her tongue and pain on the roof of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
Luck? If the roof fell in and Diz (Dean) was sitting in the middle of the room, everybody else would be buried… — Leo Durocher Copy Share Image
There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books.… — Maj Sjowall Copy Share Image
The country ever has a lagging Spring, Waiting for May to call its violets forth, And June its roses-showers and sunshine bring,… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
But one thing you have to understand clearly is that it is the man who longs for domination, and it is the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
As my good friend Al Capp told me a few years ago, the best thing to do with a confirmed [hotel] reservation… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that.… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
You wouldn't replace your carpet at home if you still had a hole in the roof...We're talking about any time you start… — Lou Barletta Copy Share Image
New York wasn't everything I thought it would be. It did not welcome me with open arms. The first year, I was… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I could remember the house on Lexington Street, where the mortgage hung over our heads almost as tangibly as the roof, and… — Mary Deasy Copy Share Image
I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the… — Dennis Eckersley Copy Share Image
'The Hangover' was lightening in a bottle. We're aware of that. It went through the roof all over the world. — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
On any Tuesday morning, if asked, a good working scientist will tell you with some self-satisfaction that the affairs of his field… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Don’t mind me,” I said. “I’m just the person who tried to rob the place last July.” “No, you diddn’t,” Abby said,… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
13. 99 percent is a very large percentage. For instance, easily 99 percent of people want a roof over their heads, food… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image