Stairs Quotes - Page 6

• The stairway is not
  a thing of gleaming strands
  a radiant evanescence
  for angels' feet that only glance in their tread, and need not
  touch the stone.

  Denise Levertov

  Angel, Feet, Needs

  Denise Levertov (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

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• I've been pushed down many flights of stairs in my time, but I always manage to find an elevator

  Chris Colfer

  Flight, Elevators, Manage

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• It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white sand shore. It is moonlight. The garden is silent. I stand in my room alone. Across my wall, from the far-off moon, A rain of fire is thrown. There are houses hanging above the stars, And stars hung under the sea, And a wind from the long blue vault of time Waves my curtains for me. I wait in the dark once more, swung between space and space: Before the mirror I lift my hands And face my remembered face.

  Conrad Aiken

  Stars, Wall, Rain

  Conrad Aiken (1918). “The Charnel Rose. Senlin: Biography and Other Poems”, p.57, Ardent Media

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• Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld.... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage.

  Anne Frank

  Dark, Wings, House

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.86, Bantam

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• I went out with this girl the other night, she wore this real slinky number...She looked great going down the stairs.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Girl, Real

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• You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters, all run to quicksilver in your jeans. More! Any boy hit by lightning, lift his lid and there on his eyeball, pretty as the Lord's Prayer on a pin, find the last scene the boy ever saw! A box-Brownie photo, by God, of that fire climbing down the sky to blow you like a penny whistle, suck your soul back up along the bright stair!

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Prayer, Blow

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Apparently I don't do stairs, I won't walk on carpet and I refuse to walk on grass. How do I do to get around, hover?

  Mariah Carey

  Grass, Carpet, Walks

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• Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

  Ayn Rand

  Reading, People, Library

  Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff (1999). “The Journals of Ayn Rand”, p.138, Penguin

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• How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, White, Coward

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1243, Oxford University Press

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• I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.

  Bruno Mars

  Two, Stories, Sticks

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• We reach the goal not by the stairs, but by the lift..... God pledges his promised righteousness to those who will stop trying to save themselves.
  Change your thoughts and you change your world.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Goal, Trying, World

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• So with Easter. It was fun, as a child, to bound down the stairs to find seasonal sweet-treats under each plate, but again, with the passing of time, and the shadow of death over our broken family circle, I've seen Easter as highest necessity. If hope is to flourish, it had better be true.

  Gerhard E Frost

  Sweet, Easter, Children

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• My son, Jett, is two, and when I was pregnant my nose got bigger, so I got a new one. Everything was bigger for a while after having Jet, but I knew I needed to be able to walk up my stairs without being winded. It took me two years to lose 60 lbs - lots of walking, bike-riding, kick-boxing and performing.

  Jill Scott

  Son, Years, Two

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• I got up this morning. I like to get up in the morning; it gives me the rest of the day to myself. I crossed the landing and went down stairs. Mind you, if there had been no stairs, I wouldn't even have attempted it.

  Chic Murray

  Funny, Morning, Humor

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• I love my body. And if I didn't, I'd get on the Stair Master

  Jaime Pressly

  Body, Masters, Ifs

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• Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Stupid, Passion, Ideas

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.117, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• 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.

  Edward Kennedy

  Eight, Boston, Land

  Attributed to a 2007 Senate speech by Kathy Kiely, "Kennedy 'fashioned the modern day legal system of immigration'", abcnews.go.com.

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• Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt.

  Bam Margera

  Hurt, Fall, Skateboarding

  "Interview: Bam Margera on Jackass 3D and Beyond". Interview with Patrick Kolan, www.ign.com. October 17, 2010.

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• The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs? -Clary, pg.266-

  Cassandra Clare

  Missing, Vampire, Baffled

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• Some people take better care of their pets than they do themselves. Their animals can run like the wind and they can barely make it up a flight of stairs.

  Jim Rohn

  Running, Animal, Wind

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 13, 2016

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• Well I work up Sunday morning,
  With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt,
  And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad,
  So I had one more for dessert.
  Then I fumbled through my closet for my clothes,
  And found my cleanest dirty shirt.
  An' I shaved my face and combed my hair,
  An' stumbled down the stairs to meet the day.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Hurt, Morning, Dirty

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• After that, he tried to go upstairs through the broom cupboard, and then the yard. This seemed to puzzle him a little. But finally he discovered the stairs, all except the bottom on, and fell up them on his face. The whole castle shook.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Yards, Castles, Littles

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• But the funny thing is, I broke my finger not on set doing kung fu. I broke my finger when I fell down the stairs prior to going on set.

  Jaime King

  Funny Things, Kung Fu, Broke

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm mortal. You really don't want me falling down stairs and breaking my neck." "I'd catch you," he assured her solemnly. "I'll always be there to catch you, Inez.

  Lynsay Sands

  Fall, Want, Necks

  Lynsay Sands (2012). “Vampires are Forever: An Argeneau Vampire Novel”, p.155, Hachette UK

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• At the World Cup, there is a constant risk that you might find a bag or some object that has been left behind, and no one is quite sure what it is. To bring in a full bomb-disposal team for each item can be very time-consuming. The PackBot can go over rough terrain, climb stairs, pick things up, and also be operated from a safe distance.

  Colin Angle

  Distance, Team, Risk

  "My Roomba's Name Is Roswell". Interview with Celeste Biever, www.slate.com. March 23, 2014.

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