Atop Quotes

“The earl narrowed his eyes as he hopped off his bay gelding and surveyed the deep green expanse of lawn surrounding the ancestral home. The graceful house, built atop and around an ancient abbey, wore its centuries of accretion with aplomb, as if it had always perched atop thisgentle slope. In the slanting late afternoon sun, the fading red-brick walls glowed. “My God, I hate the country,” he said.”

“The scandal with the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is how it managed to obtain a construction permit to build a manned telescope in a known biologically toxic environment to workers. How many more people need to die, get injured or develop long term very high altitude sickness that will last a lifetime?”

“You could have arrived atop a wildcat and no one would have said a word. They will adore you.”

“The secret to staying atop your priorities is to schooled regular times for review and reflection.”

“Letti wasn’t born to pass through the world. She had been born to sit atop of it.”

“Love loves anarchy. It loves to wreak havoc. It loves to dance atop the ruins.”

“At least I don't look like a Christmas tree.""You look like the star atop the tree.”

“This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered...”

“Sociopath. A label given, and a title received. A definition adorned? Or perhaps a ribbon atop a word.”

“If I am to be a skeleton in a box buried deep into the ground, I pray you will be the dust that rests atop my bones.”