Thatched Roof Quotes

#1. Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village.

Derek Walcott

#2. [Jazz singing] is like pornography. You can't say what it is, but you know it when you see it.

Kurt Elling

#3. I see, and say nothing.

Elizabeth I

#4. When I was in high school, I started writing a serial novel, longhand, set in the Arthurian mythos, and influenced not incidentally by Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Mists of Avalon.'

Greg Rucka

#5. It is observable that the ladies frequent tragedies more than comedies; the reason may be, that in tragedy their sex is deified and adored, in comedy exposed and ridiculed.

Alexander Pope

#6. They say you thatched your roof and now you must not run out of your house if it rains.

Barbara Kingsolver

#7. My thatched hut;
the whole sky Is its roof
The mountains are its hedge,
And it has the sea for a garden.
I'm inside with nothing at all,
Not even a bag,
And yet there are visitors who say "
It's hidden behind a bamboo door"
- Muso Soseki

Muso Soseki

#8. You may break the clods, you may sow your seeds, but what can you do without the rain? As absolutely needful is the divine blessing.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#9. Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

Alfred L. Kroeber

#10. I became an American citizen three years ago, and if I'd been arrested, maybe that wouldn't have happened. That was a very proud moment, by the way. I still have my Irish passport, but becoming an American citizen was important in terms of my family.

Jason O'Mara