Stairs Quotes - Page 14

• I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished I was a boy. One who traveled, one who never got up out of his Morris chair. Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. I wanted shaving cream in the sink and whistling on the stairs. I wanted pants hung by their cuffs from a dresser drawer. I wanted change jingling in a pocket and the sound of ice cracking in a cocktail glass at five thirty. I wanted to hear my mother laugh behind a closed door.

  Judy Blundell

  Mother, Father, Boys

  Judy Blundell (2010). “What I Saw and How I Lied”, p.61, Scholastic Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Rick Riordan

  Nice, Fall, Memorable

  7 Copy quote

• I don't think my mum ever understood my love of Doctor Who. Surely her strongest memory would have been me, standing at the top of the stairs, crying about how the "jelly men" were going to get me? Sorry, Mum, for those sleepless nights, but it was with good reason they called it Terror of the Zygons.

  Steve Berry

  Sorry, Memories, Night

  5 Copy quote

• Mother calls up the stairs to ask what in the world I'm typing up there all day and I holler down, 'Just typing up some notes from the Bible study. Just writing down all the things I love about Jesus.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Mother, Jesus, Writing

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.166, Penguin

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor -- Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now -- For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

  Langston Hughes

  Fall, Son, Dark

  Langston Hughes, Dolan Hubbard, Leslie Catherine Sanders (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Works for children and young adults: poetry, fiction, and other writing”, p.81, University of Missouri Press

  66 Copy quote

  Show source

• I live myself with my cat Pebbles. She isn't enjoying the attention as much as me - she ran off up the stairs as soon as the film crew for the show came into the house. She didn't come down for hours. But I have the support of all my brothers and sisters and my neighbours and friends - everyone thinks it's just great.

  Susan Boyle

  Sister, Brother, Cat

  9 Copy quote

• A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is practising howling below-stairs with a brute of a singingmaster so horribly, that my head is nearly off.

  Edward Lear

  Music, Insane, Roaring

  Edward Lear (1992). “A Book of Learned Nonsense”, Sutton Pub Limited

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• I fully believe in ghosts. I have, my entire life. The first house I ever lived in was haunted. There was a grave of a man in the backyard. I was just a baby then, but my parents would tell me that every night, at the same time, they would hear someone walking up the stairs.

  Meaghan Rath

  Baby, Believe, Men

  "Get to Know Being Human's Meaghan Rath". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. March 3, 2011.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I hear music Mighty fine music, The murmur of a morning breeze up there The rattle of the milkman on the stair Sure that's music.

  Frank Loesser

  Morning, Breeze, Fine

  Frank Loesser (2003). “The Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• As I was walking down the stairs, I kept thinking that the room felt like a movie theater with all your attention on this wall, so it seemed like a big challenge.

  Wade Guyton

  Wall, Thinking, Challenges

  11 Copy quote

• 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.

  John Boyne

  Children, Boys, Kicks

  John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.19, Random House

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

  Dante Alighieri

  Bread, Salt, Path

  7 Copy quote

• As I was walking up the stairs to dad's old room, and I was looking at the photographs, I started thinking that there was a time when these weren't memories. That someone actually took the photograph, and the people in the photograph had just eaten lunch or something.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Memories, Dad, Thinking

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I grew up in a haunted castle, boys. If you've never had a ghost try to push you down the stairs, you've never lived.

  Gaelen Foley

  Boys, Trying, Castles

  4 Copy quote

• Agh-uhh!” the baboon grunted. He turned and waddled up the stairs. Unfortunately, the Lakers jersey didn’t completely cover his multicolored rear.

  Rick Riordan

  Lakers, Jersey, Baboons

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Amos clapped his hands. “Khufu!” I thought he’d sneezed, because Khufu is a weird name, but then a little dude about three feet tall with gold fur and a purple shirt came clambering down the stairs. It took me a second to realize it was a baboon wearing an L.A. Lakers jersey.

  Rick Riordan

  Khufu, Hands, Names

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. "That's what you get for leaving your wallet on the kitchen table.

  David Sedaris

  Dog, Laughter, Lying

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Ben Gibbard

  Dark, Next, Tone

  "Death Cab’s Ben Gibbard: 'The Next Record Will Be Softer'". Interview with William Goodman, www.spin.com. October 8, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sophie held the [hand]cuffs higher, hopint to instill some sense of shame, if not in him, then at least in herself. One look at him and she wanted him again. "I found them in the bed." "That makes sense," Phin said. "That's where I lost them." "I'd ask what you were doing with them," Sophie said, trying not to sound bitchy, "but I probably don't want to know, do I?" "Sure you do. It was exciting and different and depraved." Phin nodded toward the stairs. "Go put them someplace we can find them, and I'll show you later.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Hands, Trying, Bed

  4 Copy quote

• Emma hears me come up the stairs and asks me to watch a movie with her. I stick Band-Aids on my weeping cuts, put on pink pajamas so we match, and snuggle with her under her rainbow comforter. She arranges all of her stuffed animals around us in a circle, everyone facing the TV, then presses play...Ghosts dare not enter here.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cutting, Animal, Play

  4 Copy quote

• The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.

  E. B. White

  Running, People, Politics

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.165, Cornell University Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• No, books. She would have maybe twenty going at a time, lying all over our house--on the kitchen table, by her bed, the bathroom, our car, her bags, a little stack at the edge of each stair. And she'd use anything she could find for a bookmark. My missing sock, an apple core, her reading glasses, another book, a fork.

  Kami Garcia

  Lying, Book, Reading

  4 Copy quote

• You beat a woman and drag her down a flight of stairs.

  Dale Hansen

  Flight, Beats, Drag

  "Did Michael Sam Take A 'Huge Risk' To Come Out Before The Draft?". "Tell Me More", www.npr.org. February 14, 2014.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Now, finally has the elevator arrived. The stairs was about to become a personal inferno.

  Anders Zorn

  Inferno, Elevators, Grooming

  11 Copy quote

• Fifteen minutes later, Betsy came thundering down the stairs. "I'm going to the mall with Sierra to see a movie." Michael leaned forward, switched off the television. "Can you please rephrase that in the form of a question?" "Sure. Can I have some money?

  Kristin Hannah

  Television, Fifteen, Form

  Kristin Hannah (2012). “Home Front”, p.151, Pan Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source