Stairs Quotes

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, and emerges ahead of his accomplishments. (John Steinbeck)
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole. View quote
Ramakrishna
Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs. View quote
Jean Cocteau
We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs. View quote
Dante Alighieri
If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs. View quote
Tina Fey
Old habits can't be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxeddown the stairs one step at a time. View quote
Mark Twain
From the windows of my office in Boston ... I can see the Golden Stairs from Boston Harbor where all eight of my great-grandparents set foot on this great land for the first time. That immigrant spirit of limitless possibility animates America even today. View quote
Ted Kennedy
Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there - Man's lampad honor, and his trust, The God who called him from the dust. View quote
Joaquin Miller
Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people. (Bernard Baruch)
Halfway down the stairs Is a stair Where I sit. There isn't any Other stair Quite like It. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top; So this is the stair Where I always Stop. Halfway up the stairs Isn't up, Isn't down. It isn't in the nursery, It isn't in the town. And all sorts of funny thoughts Run round my head: "It isn't really Anywhere! It's somewhere else Instead!" View quote
A. A. Milne
If you want to buy my wares Follow me and climb the stairs... Love for sale. View quote
Cole Porter
A man falls in love just as he falls down stairs. It is an accident. View quote
Robert Southey
An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
I feel like there's a lot of beauty in the darkness of Narrow Stairs, but that's not really a place I'm ready to go to for a while. I'm interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone - I'm just not interested in making another dark, dark album. View quote
Ben Gibbard
If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally. View quote
Mehmet Oz
Coach Hedge came pounding up the stairs with Hazel at his hooves. "Where are they?” he demanded. "Who do I kill?” "No killing!” Annabeth ordered. "Just defend the ship!” "But they interrupted a Chuck Norris movie! View quote
Rick Riordan
Agh-uhh!” the baboon grunted. He turned and waddled up the stairs. Unfortunately, the Lakers jersey didn't completely cover his multicolored rear. View quote
Rick Riordan
No!" Leo yelled. "Uhhh," Nico groaned from the floor. "Piper!" Jason cried. "Monkey!" Frank yelled. "Not monkeys," Hazel grumbled. "I think those are dwarfs." "Stealing my stuff!" Leo yelled, and ran for the stairs. (Rick Riordan)
She decided she'd rather die in some less memorable way- maybe falling down the stairs, or going peacefully in her sleep at the age eighty, after a nice quiet life with Percy. Yes, that sounded good. View quote
Rick Riordan
I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying. View quote
Holly Black
Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs. View quote
David Levithan
He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs. View quote
John Boyne