Roofs Quotes

52 Roofs quotes by 49 unique authors

As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being,… — Diane Ackerman
lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics… — Paul Farmer
Climate experts say we should tell villagers in developing countries to reduce the amount of cooking smoke they generate to help fix global warming. You… — Jay Leno
Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven… — Steven Chu
These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of… — Pablo Neruda
Embedded in the gospel of Jesus Christ there are eternal principles and truths that will last far longer than the principles of building ships and… — L. Tom Perry
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
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
Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, to me, it's completely spoiled… — David Walker
Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in… — Walter Benjamin
I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt,… — Cathy Rigby
Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will become shady routes… — Tom Turner
Everything in New Orleans is a good idea. Bijou temple-type cottages and lyric cathedrals side by side. Houses and mansions, structures of wild grace. Italianate,… — Bob Dylan
It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of… — Hermann Hesse
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
I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. — Isambard Kingdom Brunel
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
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
A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go.… — Laura Ingalls Wilder
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls. — Khaled Hosseini
Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of… — Graham Greene
Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the… — Ernest Hemingway
I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write… — Ernest Hemingway

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