Stair Quotes
47 quotes by 42 authors
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If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been and are; If,…
— Richard Chenevix Trench
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Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.
— William Ernest Henley
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All rising to great places is by a winding stair.
— Gautama Buddha
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Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or…
— Phyllis McGinley
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And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life for me ain't been no crystal stair
— Langston Hughes
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I love my body. And if I didn't, I'd get on the Stair Master
— Jaime Pressly
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Where I'm is one of those stair climbing machines the agent has installed. You climb and climb forever and never get off the ground. You're…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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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,…
— John Burroughs
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Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as…
— William Butler Yeats
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Ask dumb questions and listen quietly for the answers. That's a wisdom stair climber.
— Greg Gutfeld
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Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Elvis has left the building to climb up that heavenly stair. So what if he looks like a wart-hog in heat?
— Frank Zappa
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A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
— Franz Kafka
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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…
— Ayn Rand
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It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually…
— Daniel Handler
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In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.
— Tom Robbins
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Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I am in a…
— Diane Setterfield
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Half way down, he encountered Saphira, who had jammed her head and neck as far up the stair as she could, gouging the wood in…
— Christopher Paolini
Who Wrote These Stair Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 47 Stair Quotes, led by these top contributors: