Famous quotes containing the words raise, high, roof and/or beam:
“The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a womans aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects.”
—Arlie Hochschild (20th century)
“I had a thought for no ones but your ears:
That you were beautiful, and that I strove
To love you in the old high way of love;
That it had all seemed happy, and yet wed grown
As weary-hearted as that hollow moon.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Banners yellow, glorious, golden,
On its roof did float and flow”
—Edgar Allan Poe (18091849)
“How can one beam alone support a house?”
—Chinese proverb.
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