Best Roof Quotations
541 Roof quotes by 438 unique authors
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I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.
— Sebastian Vettel
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There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at it, and searchlights…
— John Dos Passos
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps' nest.
— Matsuo Basho
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Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.
— Derek Walcott
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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…
— William Blake
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So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.
— Jeff VanderMeer
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We saw the children and the women with their babies and then I heard the poouff — the flame had broken through the thatched roof…
— John Keegan
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I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in…
— Jon Hamm
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God is too large to be housed under one roof,
— Roger Williams
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I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
— Donald Knuth
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When I had no roof I made audacity my roof.
— Robert Pinsky
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Have you any idea what it's like to live under the same roof as four women? Armageddon is the best word for it.
— Shayne Ward
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To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is something that was traditionthat's what…
— James Turrell
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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…
— Ellsworth Kelly
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Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads.
— Paul Goldberger
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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…
— Dennis Eckersley
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This planet Earth, the act of putting a roof over our heads, our flesh and blood existence, it's all very temporary.
— Melissa Auf der Maur
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How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to…
— E T A Hoffmann
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The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine,…
— John Milton
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People in New York love having roof parties.
— Todd Barry
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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…
— Robert B. Laughlin
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were…
— Ed Miliband
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I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who is tied down…
— Mary MacLane
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An evening up on the Empire State roof-the strangest experience. The huge tomb in steel and glass, the ride to the 84th floor and there,…
— Dawn Powell
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438 authors contributed a total of 541 Roof Quotes, led by these top contributors: