It's sort of the American way to go up and down the…

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

— Bill Murray

Having worked my way from the bottom of the ladder to the top [of the UN] certainly helped me navigate that complexity, both political…

— Kofi Annan

I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

In life, there's a ladder sometimes, and maybe at the top, there's a mirror. You take a step up, then maybe three steps down...…

— Forest Whitaker

You have to work your way up the ladder just like everybody else. Nothing is given to you in this world, so you have…

— Cain Velasquez

Be good to the people on your way up the ladder, you might need their shoulders to get down.

— Crosby Kwaw

Education was the motor that allowed me to make my way up the ladder.

— Chieh Huang

There is no straight path from your seat today to where you are going. Don't try to draw that line. You will not just…

— Sheryl Sandberg

We spend a remarkably small, shamefully small, percentage of our income on food. We manage to spend money on lots of other things. All…

— Michael Pollan

Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

— E. M. Forster

For the three decades after WWII, incomes grew at about 3 percent a year for people up and down the income ladder, but since…

— Robert H. Frank

If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

— Pearl S. Buck

“Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better…

— Ludwig Von Mises

The American way of war is to build an army, then another, then a third, while building fleets. If the war is still on…

— Jerry Pournelle

The American way was for commerce, personal relationships, and religion to be voluntary. No one was forced to participate in something he didn't want.

— Harry Browne