(262 quotes found)
“Rain does not fall on one roof alone”
Proverb
“I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world”
Walt Whitman
“Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof...”
Tennessee Williams
“Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results.”
Caskie Stinnett
“When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.”
Bible
“Better an ounce from the ground than a pound from the roof”
The Talmud
“If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.”
“You may laugh at a friend's roof; don't laugh at his sleeping accommodation”
Kenyan Proverb
“It was like the top of the roof came off the house, ... He had that effect on everyone.”
James Taylor
“Let me tell you something, folks. I've been out there. It's complete devastation, ... if they have a roof left at all.”
Pat Sullivan
