Slate Roof Quotes

#1. On Second Street, corner of Norris Alley, was a commodious house, known as the Slate-roof House, and built before 1700 by James Porteus for Samuel Carpenter, who sold it to Penn.

J. Thomas Scharf

#2. All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.

Joseph Devlin

#3. Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

#4. Let me close with a word of caution: when you're on the turnpikes and freeways of America, watch out for those Winnebagos and Bounders. You never know who might be inside. Or what.

Stephen King

#5. She constantly piles up her hair with her hands and then lets it fall. She laughs, but there is no sound. It's all in silence - she is made out of yesterdays.

James Salter

#6. As there was no saddle, Lisa said to the horse, "May I pull myself up?"
And damned if the horse didn't nod.

Jackie Kessler

#7. How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time ...

May Sarton

#8. It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.

Naomi Wolf

#9. Love: understanding, honesty, humility, forgiveness, acceptance, patience, reverence, gratitude, graciousness, benevolence, compassion and integrity. Be Love.

Maximus Freeman

#10. Spiritual maturing is about releasing people to be whoever they are - even if you don't approve or like it.

Jacob Glass

#11. When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at length, the more slowly it melts, the better quality it is.

Francis Ponge