Peaked Roof Quotes & Sayings

If you are going through hell, keep going."

~Winston Churchill

(Prologue Title quote) — Julie Ann Walker

I've never subscribed to the notion that poverty is quaint or that isolation is somehow ennobling. And anyway, this is Rwanda. There is very little innocence left to lose. — Will Ferguson

Sometimes home is full of new possibilities, you just have to look or change how you look. — Jacques Lecoq

It almost doesn't matter what is real or unreal. It really matters what we choose to believe. — Judy Frankel

I have recorded nine tracks for a new album which I financed myself and am looking for a home for. — Suzi Quatro

It would be a very bad idea ... to exhibit even a small number of this new series, as the whole effect can only be achieved from an exhibition of the entire group. — Claude Monet

My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim. — Dalia Mogahed

I never wanted to kill, I am not naturally evil. Such things I do just to make myself more attractive to you -have I failed? — Morrissey

Pilfering was common in Communist China's state-owned enterprises, as the Party secretaries were slack in guarding properties that belonged to the government and poorly paid workers felt it fair compensation for their low pay. The practice was so widespread that it was an open secret. The workers joked about it and called it "Communism," which in Chinese translation means "sharing property." Pg. 390 — Nien Cheng

I've known Jan, probably, very well for, well, for over a decade. And the passion that Jan just showed the viewers in that particular piece is very real. — Rex Hunt

Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics. — Anne Royall

Education is really aimed at helping students
get to the point
where they can learn on their own ... — Noam Chomsky

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last. — Michael Scott

To be melancholy is to be self-haunted, and among the many reasons this is an unsatisfactory explanation for living inside a jam jar inside an aquarium, foremost among them is that there are no good stories to tell of your bleak time in a beautiful place, and no specter to blame for the fact that happiness, though it should have been inescapable, evaded you. — Heidi Julavits

A small cabin stands in the Glacier Peak Wilderness, about a hundred yards off a trail that crosses the Cascade Range. In midsummer, the cabin looked strange in the forest. It was only twelve feet square, but it rose fully two stories and then had a high and steeply peaked roof. From the ridge of the roof, moreover, a ten-foot pole stuck straight up. Tied to the top of the pole was a shovel. To hikers shedding their backpacks at the door of the cabin on a cold summer evening
as the five of us did
it was somewhat unnerving to look up and think of people walking around in snow perhaps thirty-five feet above, hunting for that shovel, then digging their way down to the threshold. [1971] — John McPhee

Every night I miss you and every morning I hope for you — Moonish Sood