Top 66 Stair Quotes
#1. Well-meanin' man. Did it all for the best." Stalky curled gracefully round the stair-rail. "Head in a drain-pipe. Full confession in the left boot.
Rudyard Kipling
#2. 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, Her foot is on the stair.
John Burroughs
#3. I put a hand on my chest, leaning against the wood panels of the stair wall. Rhy's hand covered my own a heartbeat later. "That's what I felt," he said, "when I saw you smile that night we dined along the Sidra.
Sarah J. Maas
#4. Of all the names, one is a mistake. One is a nightmare. The stair you miss in the darkness.
Hannah Kent
#5. That's the girl, as Grandma Win would say. Put one foot on the first stair, then the other one beside it, like when you were three. You need to take care of yourself, because who else will? There.
Margaret Atwood
#6. If there's no feast for this appetite
No reason in nursery rhymes
Why can't I shake this great and glorious lie?
And if there's no dawn beyond this dark
No secret stair to climb
Where did I learn the song that shakes the sky?
Jeffrey Overstreet
#7. Complains are like the clouds that produce no rain no matter how thick they gather. Never depend on your complaint thinking they are stair cases. Drop that thing.
Israelmore Ayivor
#8. Alone he staggered on until he found
Dawn's ghost that filtered down a shafted stair
To the dazed, muttering creatures underground
Who hear the boom of shells in muffled sound.
Siegfried Sassoon
#9. The first stair to failure is ignorance. Keep learning by leaning on the lap of information and you'll take the lead!
Israelmore Ayivor
#10. Curiosity is a descending stair ... that leads to only who-knows-where.
Jasper Fforde
#11. To ask me is in vain;
For who goes up your winding stair
Can ne'er come down again.
Mary Howitt
#12. An old farm is always more than the people under its roof. It is the past as well as the present, and vanished generations have built themselves into it as well as left their footsteps in the worn woodwork of the stair.
Henry Beston
#13. I do a lot of running, and I do it every day. I run on a track, I run hills and I work the stair-stepper extremely hard. I do some type of cardio every day. In addition, I have a passion for golf, and that helps me stay fit, too.
Jerry Rice
#14. If you talk to anyone who's done a stair fall, there's not one stair fall, no matter how many pads you have on or how protected you are, where you don't hurt something really bad.
Lucas Till
#15. The inspector sat down on a stair, fired up a cigarette, and entered an immobility contest with a lizard.
Andrea Camilleri
#16. Man's books are but a climbing stair, Lain step by step, like stairs of stone; The stairway here, the temple there Man's lampad honor, and his trust, The God who called him from the dust.
Joaquin Miller
#17. 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 fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
Phyllis McGinley
#18. Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, I wish to hell he'd go away.
Gregory Maguire
#19. At the first turning of the second stair
I turned and saw below
The same shape twisted on the banister
Under the vapour in the fetid air
Struggling with the devil of the stairs who wears
The deceitful face of hope and of despair
T. S. Eliot
#20. If there must be a god in the house, must be,
Saying things in the rooms and on the stair,
Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor,
Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghost
Or Aristotle's skeleton. Let him hang out
His stars on the wall. He must dwell quietly.
Wallace Stevens
#21. Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime ... What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair you ascent, that this is the road to the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#22. As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wan't there
He wasn't there again today
Oh I wish he'd go away!
William Hughes Mearns
#23. Across the sea and up the stair
The Wild Poppy's everywhere.
Though southmen search until they're blind
They know not what they seek to find.
Diana Peterfreund
#24. Now let us go, love, down the winding stair,
With fingers intertwined ...
William Morris
#25. Later, William Stoner could not remember how he learned these things, that first afternoon and early evening at Josiah Claremont's house; for the time of his meeting was blurred and formal, like the figured tapestry on the stair wall off the foyer.
John Williams
#26. Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#27. The other day upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today; how I wish he'd go away!"
~Gabrielle O'Callaghan towards Adam Black
Karen Marie Moning
#28. I look at all my projects as a stair step to the next. My goal is to always get better and better.
Andrae Crouch
#29. 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 a sufficient deterrent from reading?
Ayn Rand
#30. Hand in hand, we climb the processional stair, rising in the celebratory uproar of a capricious court. As we enter the palace, we are blinded by the ascent from sunshine into darkness.
Katherine Longshore
#31. Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#32. 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
#33. I hear music Mighty fine music, The murmur of a morning breeze up there The rattle of the milkman on the stair Sure that's music ...
Frank Loesser
#34. The Samuel Josephs were not a family. They were a swarm. The moment you entered the house they cropped up and jumped out at you from under the tables, through the stair rails, behind the doors, behind the coats in the passage. Impossible to count them: impossible to distinguish between them.
Katherine Mansfield
#35. If I Must Go
If I must go to heaven's end
Climbing the ages like a stair,
Be near me and forever bend
With the same eyes above me there;
Time will fly past us like leaves flying,
We shall not heed, for we shall be
Beyond living, beyond dying,
Knowing and known unchangeably.
Sara Teasdale
#36. In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.
Tom Robbins
#37. Today would rank as one of the stupidest things I'd done, taking the place of indoor stair skiing.
Ashlan Thomas
#38. If one day I should hear the hacker's slow, booted step on the stair, perhaps I'll suggest a cup of tea and try to get the story of his life.
Alix Kates Shulman
#39. I summon to the winding ancient stair;
Set all your mind upon the steep ascent
William Butler Yeats
#40. my mother's wits were now in an attic of her head which had neither door nor stair, or at least none that I could find.
Sebastian Barry
#41. Footsteps shuffled on the stair/Under the firelight, under the brush, her hair/Spread out in fiery points/Glowed into words, then would be savagely still.
T. S. Eliot
#42. Who says that fictions only and false hair
Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?
Is all good structure in a winding stair?
George Herbert
#43. A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
Franz Kafka
#44. Change seems recognizable only after it's happened, like putting one's foot down for a familiar stair - and it's not there.
Gloria Steinem
#45. And that touched off something else ... old sorrows, good friends gone down into the earth. Sometimes I picture death as a wide stone stair-case, filled with a silent procession of those being led away.
Sue Grafton
#46. I ascend from darkness
And depart on the winds of space for I know not where;
My watch is wound, a key is in my pocket,
And the sky is darkened as I descend the stair.
Conrad Aiken
#47. The carpeting on the stair risers caught, racing up to the first-floor level as if to tell dreadful good news.
Stephen King
#48. Ask dumb questions and listen quietly for the answers. That's a wisdom stair climber.
Greg Gutfeld
#49. I will not exorcise you - I'd miss your fragrance, the soft tread of your step on the stair
John Geddes
#50. To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail." He laughed again. " You should have done it. I would have caught you at the bottom.
Gail Carson Levine
#51. I love my body. And if I didn't, I'd get on the Stair Master
Jaime Pressly
#52. Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair;
A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given;
And death was safety and great joy to find;
But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.
Michelangelo
#53. All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.
Francis Bacon
#55. When you reach for a star, only angels are there. And it's not very far, just a step on a stair.
Kate Bush
#56. Today is hard but who cares, by each hard day we are making stair for us.
Avinash Prasad
#58. I am constantly working out-circuit training, jumping rope, and stair-stepping, and sticking to 1200 calories a day. It can't be something that you're doing to lose weight, and then once you do, you're done. I do it every day of my life.
LeAnn Rimes
#59. I think we should get married here," I say. It's so obvious. Naomi sits down on the top stair, the edge of our corner, and rests her head against the wall. "Ely," she says, "we're never getting married. Never.
Rachel Cohn
#60. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it over again, I'd have more of them. In fact, I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day. - NADINE STAIR, EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS OLD, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#61. I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars -Songs of Sapphique
Catherine Fisher
#62. Elvis has left the building to climb up that heavenly stair. So what if he looks like a wart-hog in heat?
Frank Zappa
#63. All rising to great place is by a winding stair. - Sir Francis Bacon,
Clive Barker
#64. Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breastAnd by a lantern bright I fled my house while all in quiet rest.Shrouded by the night and by the secret stair I quickly fled.The veil concealed my eyes while all within lay quiet as the dead
John Of The Cross
#65. Stairs are your teacher; they teach you to be stronger. Love your teacher and every time life puts some stairs before you, accept them as a present!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#66. It means I'm glad I killed him, I said, testing it. But this didn't mean anything.
It didn't mean anything, I said, dubious.
But this didn't mean anything, either.
Pablo D'Stair
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