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Stairs Quotes by Langston Hughes
- Life for me ain't been no crystal stair
- Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And…
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- Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people. — Bernard Baruch
- You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down… — Dante Alighieri
- Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first… — Jean Cocteau
- If we with earnest effort could succeed To make our life one long, connected prayer, As lives of some, perhaps, have been… — Richard Chenevix Trench
- My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep.… — Luther Vandross
- It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. — Vaclav Havel
- A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going… — Robert Benchley
- The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but… — Thomas Adams
- There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs. — Zig Ziglar
- The other night I was walking down the stairs behind one of my daughters. I was tired, and she was goofing around,… — Forest Whitaker
- Whenever my teenage daughter comes down the stairs dressed like a tramp for her date, I think to myself: 'Damn, why won't… — David Henry
- The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down. — Ed McBain