Quotes About Stairways

#1. Between valleys I took the stone stairways laid down by villages, and would glimpse the farmers toiling up below me in crocodiles of decorated straw hats, or waiting in curiosity above.

Colin Thubron

#2. The guards were making a butcher shop out of the stairways. There was a hail of blows with chains, bayonets, and truncheons. They were breaking heads and arms.

Armando Valladares

#3. Heaven ... a place where there is neither sufferings, sadness nor separation ... Now we climb the stairways to heaven one step by one step and when we ascend, we will live.

Suh Jung

#4. The human face is as strange to me as a countenance, which, the more one looks at it, the more it closes itself off and escapes by the steps of unknown stairways.

Alberto Giacometti

#5. Some books were little stairways, different levels of the self telling the same stories at progressively higher levels of the ladder.

Tantra Bensko

#6. I get furious at stairways, furious at doors, at
walls, furious at everyday life which interferes with the continuity of
ecstasy.

Anais Nin

#7. ...and one of those neat spiral stairways in the far corner-I wonder where it leads. Spiral staircases always seem to me like they must lead somewhere special.

Helen Phillips

#8. Tem loved the mortuaries, though no one he knew was dead. Still he would beg to go, to grasp the hand of any adult willing to wind down those plush-carpeted stairways, past the sleek vaults, inviting and bright.

Katharine E.K. Duckett

#9. Guilt accretes. It builds and builds, whittling stairways and spires in the heart until a person can carry a city of hopelessness inside them.
My guilt was building a universe.

Roshani Chokshi

#10. Poverty of young men alone behind the
stairways, who practice
alchemy inside bottle caps, who know
the altruism of a last syringe.

Jim Carroll

#11. Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs that reach to God! Here we are free as sea or wind, For here are set Time's snowy tents In everlasting battlements Against the march of Saxon mind.

Joaquin Miller

#12. In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible but soft hands of birds down stairways which were folded up again as I advanced. I displayed my grief in the friendly fields of death, far from men: within myself.

Jean Genet

#13. Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

Jason Aldean

#15. Success is not a doorway, it's a stairway.

Dottie Walters

#16. There's a lot more to be learned, and I'm going to learn all the way up to the stairway to the stars

Mimi Weddell

#17. In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume.

G. Willow Wilson

#18. The falcon and the dove sit there together, and the one of them doth prune the other's feather.

Michael Drayton

#19. Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation. I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada.

Nicolas Sarkozy

#20. I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.

Eileen Myles

#21. The Fed is totally open.

Ben Bernanke