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What the Ten Million Solar Roofs Act does is provide consumer rebates for the purchase and installation of solar systems. -- Bernie Sanders
Landscape planners will have the opportunity to make sculptured roofscapes, so that cities appear to be verdant hills and valleys. Streets will become shady routes carved through the undergrowth. Roofs will become mountain tops. People will become ants. -- Tom Turner
Nobody tells you Rwanda looks like Tuscany with its tiled roofs. -- Joanna Lumley
I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. -- Isambard K. Brunel
I did stuff for three years in Kabul that I found exciting, and a lot of that was fixing roofs, talking about sewage installation. -- Rory Stewart
Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever makes. -- Jeremy Grantham
As education and employment secretary in 1997, I inherited hundreds of schools where the roofs leaked, the windows rattled, and they relied entirely on outside toilets. -- David Blunkett
Based on German prototypes, green walls and roofs are a natural idea in Singapore's tropical environment, where mosses, ferns, philodendrons, orchids and other epiphytes literally grow on trees. -- Alan Huffman
As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment. -- Diane Ackerman
I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open. -- Cathy Rigby
His unit is in charge of 5,000 homes, and they've only been able to search about 2 percent of them. People are standing on roofs or sticking their hands out of air vents so they can get rescued. -- Allen Johnson
Since I work in home solar, I can't resist focusing on the amazing developments happening here. What many homeowners don't know is that they can have solar installed on their roofs without owning the panels or paying the high upfront costs. -- Lynn Jurich
People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job. -- Paul Theroux
I was always very active as a kid. I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open. -- Cathy Rigby
Portugal is a high hill with a white watch tower on it flying signal flags. It is apparently inhabited by one man who lives in a long row of yellow houses with red roofs, and populated by sheep who do grand acts of balancing on the side of the hill. -- Richard H. Davis
It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion. -- Herman Hesse
I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger. -- Sam Childers
There are two types of people, you see. One type keep their heads straight, and look around as they walk. The others look up - at the tops of houses, at the eaves and the lintels and the roofs, which can tell you when they were built - and I've always done that. -- Peter Ackroyd
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. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under. -- Laura Ingalls Wilder
Golden roofs break men's rest. -- Seneca the Younger
Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings. -- Bram Stoker
The rain's innumerable hooves spatter on the streets and roofs. -- David Mitchell
A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque. -- Mason Cooley
I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful. -- Enid Blyton
I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. -- Isambard K. Brunel
I visualize the day that tridents and pentagrams are thrust into the sky from church roofs instead of crosses. -- Anton Szandor LaVey
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls. -- Khaled Hosseini
Walt Whitman is HOT! I mean, that guy could sound his barbaric yawps over the roofs of my world any time. -- John Green
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls." -- Khaled Hosseini
I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. -- Walt Whitman
I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. -- Walt Whitman
The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns. -- Victoria Kahler
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
To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs. -- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs. -- Horace
Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years. -- Steven Chu
Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, barns without roofs, children without clothing, principles, morals or manners. -- Benjamin Franklin
Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised? -- William C. Bryant
No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise. -- Alexander Pope
They want dancing girls! They want thrills! They want elephants! They want people falling off roofs! They want dreams! The world is full of little people with big dreams! -- Terry Pratchett
O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car. -- William Blake
lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights. -- Paul Farmer
Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She was glad they were there. She belonged to them and they to her. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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