Stairwell Quotes

#1. As he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature.

John Shelby Spong

#2. If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve.

Oswald Chambers

#3. I don't know if I'd want to be a Secret Service agent. In the movies, it's exciting and romantic and all that. Really, most of their job is standing in a hallway for 12 hours making sure somebody doesn't come through a doorway off of a stairwell.

Dennis Quaid

#4. The only clouds are pale and thin, hung as high as they can manage, like cobwebs in the high arches of a stairwell, and the sky is a freshly scrubbed blue, as permanent-looking as the first day of the holidays.

Jon McGregor

#5. The Singing of Swans is a remarkable narrative calling
even compelling
us to connect with our own ancestral roots, to seek our own inner wisdom, and to reclaim our own inner voices!

Margaret Starbird

#6. Show me something real

Unknown

#7. At his most characteristic, medieval man was not a dreamer nor a wanderer. He was an organiser, a codifier, a builder of systems.

C.S. Lewis

#8. Rook. You fit me. When I saw you crouching in that stairwell last week I felt like I knew you. You stopped me dead in my tracks, you wiped my mind.

J.A. Huss

#9. the stairwell and into the room where I will decide the rest of my life. The room is arranged in concentric circles. On the edges stand the sixteen-year-olds

Veronica Roth

#10. When I was 16 or 17, I remember kissing one of my first girlfriends, Kim Anderson, under a stairwell at Disneyland. I'll never forget that feeling.

John Stamos

#11. In the back corner, a stairwell led down. It was blocked by a row of iron bars like a prison door. Percy wondered what was down there - monsters? Treasure? Amnesiac demigods who had gotten on Reyna's bad side?

Rick Riordan

#12. I'm not a princess
This ain't a fairy tale
I'm not the one you'll sweep off her feet
Lead her up a stairwell
This ain't Hollywood
This is a small town
I was a dreamer before you went and let me down
Now it's too late for you and your white horse to come around

Taylor Swift

#13. The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man ... [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government.
(A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.)

Thomas Jefferson

#14. I turned around and headed back to the stairwell, planning to go downstairs and buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine. Maybe it would fall on me and end my misery.

Kenneth Oppel

#15. To know God is not a matter of education, but of illumination. The stairwell to illumination is utter fascination in the presence of God. Push out all other activities and come in silent wonder and admiration in the presence of God. Then God will open up His heart and illuminate Himself to you.

A.W. Tozer

#16. Fill me I'm cold. Fill me I'm half way gone.
Would you crush me in the stairwell?
Could we just lie down?

Deborah Landau

#17. The stairway to the ministry is not a grand staircase but a back stairwell that leads down to the servants' quarters.

Edmund Clowney

#18. India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.

Tryon Edwards

#20. Crokus jumped at a faint plopping sound from the stairwell. He laid his hands on his knives, tensing.

Steven Erikson

#21. Cool parents, I thought, are the ones who know nothing. It made me feel a little sad for mine, but I didn't say any of this.

John Darnielle

#22. Everyone is called, everyone is sent out ... The call of God can reach us on the assembly line and in the office, in the supermarket and in the stairwell, i.e., in the places of everyday life.

Pope Francis

#23. Ha," I said. "Oh, ha-ha. Yeah, 'cause they love me. You see how many vampires are up here? Zero, right?"
One," said Eric, stepping out of the stairwell.

Charlaine Harris

#24. Becoming an adult is all about accepting that you didn't know anything when you were a kid.

Andrew Sturm

#25. There is a sacred realm of privacy for every man and woman where he makes his choices and decisions-a realm of his own essential rights and liberties into which the law, generally speaking, must not intrude.

Geoffrey Fisher

#26. over to our house for Joe's sausage lasagna. A half hour later, Julie was in bed and two of my very favorite people were standing around the kitchen

James Patterson

#27. Behind her, the door to the stairwell opens, and Tobias steps out with Marcus and Caleb behind him, almost unnoticed.
Almost, except I notice him, because I have trained myself to notice him.

Veronica Roth

#28. What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

Horace

#29. Zane glanced toward the stairwell, then back to Nick. "How close are you?" he finally blurted out. "I have no frame of reference, other than the oorah and your tongue down his throat.

Abigail Roux

#30. I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years.

Charles De Lint