Best Roof Proverbs
541 Roof quotes by 438 unique authors
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When I was a kid I used to go to the movies, double features in outdoor theaters, and my parents used to take us to…
— Michael Biehn
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There are two types of people, you see. One type keep their heads straight, and look around as they walk. The others look up -…
— Peter Ackroyd
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After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a…
— Yann Arthus-Bertrand
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I remember my father's last race very clearly when he drove at Hockenheim in front of 100,000 people and I was sitting next to him…
— Nico
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I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc.
— Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every…
— Jackie French
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The earth is all the home I have, the heavens my wide roof-tree
— William Edmondstoune Aytoun
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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…
— William C. Bryant
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Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail…
— William C. Bryant
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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…
— William Shakespeare
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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…
— Charles Dickens
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The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who…
— Pablo Picasso
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Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye of the philosopher, the curve drawn on a paper two…
— Charles Kingsley
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No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal…
— Alexander Pope
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But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And…
— John Milton
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The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.
— John Milton
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The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fairy tale creatures, which suddenly flew away…
— Marc Chagall
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A rain-tight roof, frugal living, a box of colors, and God's sunlight through clear windows keep the soul attuned and the body vigorous for one's…
— Albert Pinkham Ryder
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It was like the top of the roof came off the house, .. He had that effect on everyone.
— James Taylor
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The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.
— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
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That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf,…
— Joan Miro
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How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on…
— John Muir
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Nature has always something rare to show us... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath…
— John Muir
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On any Tuesday morning, if asked, a good working scientist will tell you with some self-satisfaction that the affairs of his field are nicely in…
— Lewis Thomas
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It's been 50 years since I was on the roof of my parents' house shooting Hag in a Black Leather Jacket when I didn't even…
— John Waters
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