Quotes About Ladders

#1. Now that my ladder's gone,
I must lie down where all my ladders start,
In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

W.B.Yeats

#2. I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.

Andrew Bogut

#3. Ladders were not inherently dangerous, he told himself, people climbed them every day, and most of them lived.

Anne Ursu

#4. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

Ray Bradbury

#5. Life is a game of snakes and ladders, sir. You are steadily progressing accros the board, rolling sixes on the dice and thinking you are going to win - suddenly you land on a long snake and slide several rows down, far away from the destination again. -Mr. Ali-

Farahad Zama

#6. The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become such a ladder itself!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. I can only sign over everything,
the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels,
the soul, the family tree, the mailbox.
Then I can sleep.
Maybe.

Anne Sexton

#8. There's no 'Chutes and Ladders' in life.

Sophia Amoruso

#9. The dust of thirty years hung lifeless in shafts of morning light, the gilding of perfectly prim pages shone incanescent, the shriek of rolling ladders mourned in perennial soliloquy.

Michelle Franklin

#10. They climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness

Catherynne M Valente

#11. mobs will be kept at bay, since they cannot climb ladders! Save

Malcolm Becker

#12. I can tell you what the eye wanted with Sophie ... we heard she was particularly skilled qt Chutes and Ladders, and since The Eye holds a Chutes and Ladders tournament every summer

Rachel Hawkins

#13. You don't have to climb ladders to reach God. He dances within all He creates.

Padma Venkatraman

#14. Nice is akin to not walking under ladders or stepping on cracks. It's a superstitious hedging of bets. A part of you thinks your good behavior will ward off evil. Well, apparently that's not true.

Deb Caletti

#15. I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

#16. Which brings me to the question of why we always 'fall' in love. One falls down steps, off ladders, into rivers and down mountains. If love is so wonderful, why don't we soar in love or climb in love?

Judith McNaught

#17. You have a 12-foot fence. You know what'll happen? Thirteen foot ladders.

Bill Richardson

#18. In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Carl Jung

#19. Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts have met with failure. Even in the case of ladders, when simple hand-over-hand coordination is required, only one in four zombies will succeed.

Max Brooks

#20. A third child would be like sliding down a snake in a game of Snakes and Ladders.

Liane Moriarty

#21. As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it.

B. Barmanbek

#22. The pregnancy test was called First Response, as if an emergency were already waiting for me inside the pink box. Little pink firefighters with little pink ladders waiting to climb up me.

Emily Schultz

#23. Letter 84


An elephant with his trunk raised is a ladder to the stars.

A breaching whale is a ladder to the bottom of the sea.

My photographs are a ladder to my dreams.

These letters are ladders to you.

Gregory Colbert

#24. All right," Jake said, clapping his hands. "Which one of you little punks is gonna teach me how to play Chutes and Ladders?

Emmy Laybourne

#25. The curtains were blood-red and drawn. This was not an office. It was a small library, two storeys high, with thin ladders and impractical balconies and an expansive ceiling featuring a gaggle of naked Greeks. It was the sort of library you'd marry a man for.

Catherine Lowell

#26. That's what it's like when people have crawled very high up in a tree, then they sometimes need help to get down with ladders and ropes and other instruments.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#27. And anyway, who defines "real life"? Who says "real life" is property ladders and hideous pearl earrings? "Shit-boring tedious life," more like.

Sophie Kinsella

#28. Will bounded up onto one of the ladders and yanked a book off the shelf. "I'll find you something else to read. Catch." He had let it fall without looking and Tessa had to dart forward to seize it before it hit the floor. - Clockwork Angel

Cassandra Clare

#29. I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing.

George Woodcock

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

E. M. Forster

#31. Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.

Terry Pratchett

#32. My brain is built of paths and slides and ladders and lasers and i have invited all of you to enter its pavilion. my brain, as you enter, will smell of tangerines and brand-new running shoes.

Douglas Coupland

#33. Music sets up ladders,
it makes us invisible,
it sets us apart,
it lets us escape;
but from the visible
there is no escape.

Hilda Doolittle

#34. Neither the individual nor the race is improved by almsgiving. The best means of benefiting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise.

Andrew Carnegie

#35. Don't climb a single rung up the entitlement ladder. Demanding something you haven't truly earned is a great way to get stuck in the land of Learning for decades, even an entire lifetime. Kick those ladders over and keep on walking.

Jon Acuff

#36. It's not enough to dream. It's not enough to try. It's not enough to set goals or climb ladders. It's not enough to value. The effort has to be based on practical realities that produce the result. Only then can we dream, set goals, and work to achieve them with confidence.

Stephen R. Covey

#37. Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.

Nancy Pelosi

#38. A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.

Rachel Maddow

#39. You must write every single day of your life ... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads ... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

Ray Bradbury

#40. My time is always divided when I prepare for a wire walk. First I dream, technically and artistically, and then I go to work, and I am the master rigger, climbing trees and ladders and constructing. Only then I change my cap and become the performer.

Philippe Petit

#41. Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders.

David Moody

#42. I have got acquainted with Lofty John. Ilse is a great friend of his and often goes there to watch him working in his carpenter shop. He says he has made enough ladders to get to heaven without the priest but that is just his joke.

L.M. Montgomery

#43. Son-- "We don't need ladders, we have obsidian, bro."

Mommy's thoughts-- "...............................
.......fucking minecraft

Mel Brown

#44. Her fierce and fearful friend
who loved country music and cherry Pop Tarts and singing in public and the color pink, who was terrified of germs and dogs and ladders.

Lauren Oliver

#45. Landlords took the side streets, typically not in their Saab or Audi but in their "rent collector," some oil-leaking, rusted-out van or truck that hauled around extension cords, ladders, maybe a loaded pistol, plumbing snakes, toolboxes, a can of Mace, nail guns, and other necessities.

Matthew Desmond

#46. I'm very superstitious ... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

Norman Cook

#47. I won't walk under scaffolding or under ladders. I wear things like a baseball player wears things that are supposed to have luck. I am superstitious about everything.

Lauren Groff

#48. If things went my way, I would be working at a renaissance fair as a falconer. I wouldn't have to worry about climbing career ladders or getting promotions, because falconry's not like that. Either you're a falconer or you're not. Either the birds come back to you or they fly away. My father waited

Carol Rifka Brunt

#49. President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.

Thomas Perez

#50. Most rewarding of the ladders hang by slightest of the threads. Rope them threads.

Dharmendra Tolani

#51. Books - they weren't ladders out of the abyss, but they were companions.

John Green

#52. Chutes and Ladders was perhaps the most sadistic board game ever invented. Adults loathed the game; children loved it. The universe thus dictated that an adult invariably got snookered into playing the game with a child.

David Foster Wallace

#53. Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.

Peter Kreeft

#54. I'm beginning to believe that the depths to which a woman could fall for Cain are endless. To a deep, dark, infinite pit with no ladders to get away, no cushions to soften the impact. No safety net. No escape.

K.A. Tucker

#55. Nobody does ladders like Jeff Hardy.

Matt Hardy

#56. Footwork is definitely key for a linebacker. We make our money playing laterally. You've got to be able to move side to side and play sideline to sideline. So doing quick feet drills like ladders and keeping your footwork right is important.

Brandon Spikes

#57. Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

Morrissey

#58. Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

Joseph Joubert

#59. The biggest compendium is life; one day it's Cluedo the next Snakes and ladders

Martin Bailey

#60. If I'm going through something, I paint through it. It's very physical. I'm writing, I'm thinking, I'm meditating, I'm moving, I'm jumping off ladders, and it's therapeutic.

Jose Parla

#61. Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

Thomas Perez

#62. I can usually get the right connection with the crowd and I don't have to be jumping off ladders.

Dwayne Johnson

#63. From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape.

Rumi

#64. Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Lord Byron

#65. Politics, life, and business are not spectator sports. You have to get involved to get ahead. Most importantly, when you reach that level of success, keep the door open and the ladder down for others to follow.

Ron Brown

#66. Each time you decide to grow again, you realize you're starting at the bottom of another ladder.

Ken Rosenthal

#67. To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder ... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.

Norman Mailer

#68. When you help the poorest in the world, you start to move them up an economic and social ladder, and they're not going to be moving toward violence or terrorism of the kind that we worry about.

Colin Powell

#69. Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.

Stephen Covey

#70. I had to discover very quickly that class origins cannot be erased, regardless of whether we climb up or down the sociocultural ladder.

Elena Ferrante

#71. When I see a barrier, I cry and I curse, and then I get a ladder and climb over it.

John H. Johnson

#72. So spirit is both the highest "level" in the holarchy, but it's also the paper on which the entire holarchy is written. It's the highest rung in the ladder, but it's also the wood out of which the entire ladder is made.

Ken Wilber

#73. International football is one clog further up the football ladder

Glenn Hoddle

#74. The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.

Bobby Knight

#75. If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

Saint Augustine

#76. Out of the red and silver and the long cry of alarm to the poet who survives in all human beings, as the child survives in him; to this poet she threw an unexpected ladder in the middle of the city and ordained, 'Climb!

Anais Nin

#77. They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.

Anais Nin

#78. Climb up the ladder! Climb up the ladder! Are you stupid?!

CM Punk

#79. I want a bigger band with higher highs, a bigger ladder. And I want more bottom - I want an incredible amount of bottom. I want more noise. When I do a rock tune I want it to be so HUGE ...

Janis Joplin

#80. I hate the point where you have to get off the ladder, or get back on. I don't know if that's a fear of heights, or literally a fear of falling. I want to be afraid to fall. That seems like a good fear.

Chuck Klosterman

#81. Every day, a little sadder, a little madder. Will someone get me a ladder?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#82. Ambition is putting a ladder against the sky.

Shannon L. Alder

#83. Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

Elena Ferrante

#84. Climb the ladder to success escalator style

The Notorious B.I.G.

#85. The day you were born, a ladder was set up to help you escape this world ...

Rumi

#86. Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#87. The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible.

Ludwig Buchner

#88. When you're a coach you've got to go up the ladder, you've got to be ready to travel. That's the nature of coaching

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#89. When levitation fails, a ladder prevails.

Becky Stark

#90. I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.

Madeleine Albright

#91. Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder.

Rumi

#92. It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.

Martha Stewart

#93. 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 same / There'll be a golden ladder reaching down / When the Man comes around.

Johnny Cash

#94. Whether people like your work or not, but it's also based on a lot of other things - geography, who you happen to connect with and where they sit in that ladder - and all of that felt really isolating and disheartening to me when I figured it out.

Victoria Chang

#95. Let me tell you the following words as if I were showing you the rungs of a ladder leading upward and upward: Herzl; the Zionist Congress; the English Uganda proposition; the future world war; the peace conference where with the help of England a free and Jewish Palestine will be created.

Max Nordau

#96. Men do their hardest work at the bottom of the ladder, not at the top.

William Feather

#97. There's always 30 or 40 Christians standing around, saying, "It's a shame that he has to die." And Jesus is saying, "Well, maybe I wouldn't have to if somebody would get a ladder and pair of pliers!!

Sam Kinison

#98. The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom of the social ladder.

Anita Roddick

#99. The worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall.

Donald Rumsfeld

#100. Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.

Stephen Covey