Stairs Quotes
359 quotes by 297 authors
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Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.
— Bernard Baruch
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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
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Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep…
— Jean Cocteau
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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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My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the…
— Luther Vandross
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It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.
— Vaclav Havel
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A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar…
— Robert Benchley
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The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side…
— Thomas Adams
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There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.
— Zig Ziglar
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The other night I was walking down the stairs behind one of my daughters. I was tired, and she was goofing around, you know like…
— Forest Whitaker
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Whenever my teenage daughter comes down the stairs dressed like a tramp for her date, I think to myself: 'Damn, why won't her mother wear…
— David Henry
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The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.
— Ed McBain
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A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
— Mark Twain
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You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.
— Mark Twain
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We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the buzz of his…
— Alice McDermott
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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…
— Jaime King
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I didnt know there were so many ways you could walk down stairs until the day we filmed Hermiones entrance into the Yule Ball Hall,
— Emma Watson
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Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs
— Michael Buble
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The Chichen Itza is just a pyramid with four sides, with stairs on each side leading to some kind of bungalow on the top.
— Karl Pilkington
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Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
— Mitch Hedberg
Who Wrote These Stairs Quotes
297 authors contributed a total of 359 Stairs Quotes, led by these top contributors: