Stairs Quotes - Page 3

• Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

  T. S. Eliot

  Garden, Hair, Pavement

  'La Figlia Che Piange' (1917)

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• 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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Way, Taste

  Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 17, l. 58 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

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• You know how it is when you’re walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, and you think there’s one more step? I’m like that all the time.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Time, Humor

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• Search for the secret stairs of the wise men; when you find them, lose no time to start ascending!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Men, Secret

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• Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Sorry, Convenience, Staircases

  "Live album: "Mitch All Together"". 2003.

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• I was going to come in and push you down the stairs.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Ridiculous

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• Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Years, Cute Funny, Age

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise.

  Betty White

  Memories, Exercise, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Men, Healthy Habits

  Mark Twain (2011). “Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins”, p.79, Modern Library

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• Oh, Spring is surely coming, Her couriers fill the air; Each morn are new arrivals, Each night her ways prepare; I scent her fragrant garments, Her foot is on the stair.

  John Burroughs

  Spring, Night, Air

  John Burroughs (1906). “Bird and Bough”

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• I just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song

  Will Ferrell

  Song, One Direction, Guitar

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• To ask me is in vain;
  For who goes up your winding stair
  Can ne'er come down again.

  Mary Howitt

  Vain, Ask Me, Asks

  Mary Howitt (1834). “Sketches of natural history”, p.123

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• Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams, fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Fire, Tunnels

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• [When asked at age 79 why her Paris apartment was located up many flights of stairs at the top of the building:] It's the only way I can still make the hearts of men beat faster.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Heart, Men, Paris

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• Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair;
  A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given;
  And death was safety and great joy to find;
  But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.

  Michelangelo

  Wings, Feet, Safety

  Michelangelo Buonarroti, Tommaso Campanella (1878). “The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella”

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• When I am getting ready to cross a street, I look both ways before crossing. My bones, my muscles, are not what they used to be, so I am careful when I go up and down stairs, because I've heard stories of older people falling and having very disabling injuries. I have enough things that begin to go a little bit wrong as I get a little bit older.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Fall, People, Looks

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• Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Believe, Sight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.471, Library of America

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• I never have wit until I am below stairs.
  [Fr., Je n'ai jamais d'esprit qu'au bas de l'escalier.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Wit

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• Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs. What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you’ve fallen, even after you know how painful it is, you’d still get in line to do it again.

  Holly Black

  Love, Girl, Fall

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.

  Jeannette Walls

  Cute, Fall, Age

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• I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Beautiful, Thinking, Clouds

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• If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.

  Terry Goodkind

  Pride, Simple, Self

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• This morning I was laughing at my cat who was running up the stairs and slipped, and pretended like it didn't happen.

  Jayma Mays

  Running, Morning, Cat

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The mongoose I want under the stairs when the snakes slither by.

  Hannibal

  Snakes, Want, Mongoose

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• I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

  Dawn French

  Home, Personality, Cupboards

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