Ladder Quotes

362 Ladder quotes by 297 unique authors

The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom. — Bobby Knight
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them… — Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important part of our… — Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours. — Rajneesh
I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're… — Tory Burch
As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but what I do know is… — Jose Mujica
'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath… — James Russell Lowell
Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. — Rose of Lima
God calls us, just as he called Abraham, away from the security we knew, out of our old, familiar, little room, down the ladder of… — Peter Kreeft
Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a… — Emma Goldman
Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty — Morgan Freeman
Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle. — Mike Caro
Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an… — Patti Smith
You can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever. — Lil Wayne
Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder? — Karl Pilkington
There's a man going 'round taking names / And he decides who to free and who to blame / Everybody won't be treated all the… — Johnny Cash
The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic… — Rick Santorum
I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I… — Janis Joplin
To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the… — Roger Ebert
According to Eliade, the shamanic ladder is the earliest version of the idea of an axis of the world, which connects the different levels of… — Jeremy Narby
A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the… — John Shirley
The Grand Ole Opry, to a country singer, is what Yankee Stadium is to a baseball player. Broadway to an actor. It's the top of… — Bill Anderson
Space is about 100 kilometers away. That’s far away—I wouldn’t want to climb a ladder to get there—but it isn’t that far away. If you’re… — Randall Munroe
Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder, — Robert Lowell
Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder. — William Faulkner

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297 authors contributed a total of 362 Ladder Quotes, led by these top contributors: