Roofs Quotes
52 quotes by 49 authors
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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
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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
— Khaled Hosseini
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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
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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
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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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A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark…
— Susan Cooper
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Chilled-looking people walking along the riverside, the snow beginning, faintly, to pile up on the roofs of cars, the bare trees shaking their heads left…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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When I look up to the sky between the narrow roofs, it reminds me of you, the one who is far, far away.
— Masashi Kishimoto
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I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide as a snowfall,…
— Leonard Cohen
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I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
— Walt Whitman
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Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time.
— John Green
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When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and…
— Alice Hoffman
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The rain's innumerable hooves spatter on the streets and roofs.
— David Mitchell
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Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
— Bram Stoker
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The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view.…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can…
— Haruki Murakami
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I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.
— Enid Blyton
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But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and…
— Ernest Hemingway
Who Wrote These Roofs Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 52 Roofs Quotes, led by these top contributors: