Quotes about stair
A collection of quotes on the topic of stair, down, likeness, going.
Quotes about stair

Canto XVII, lines 58–60 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Paradiso
The Satanic Bible (1969)

Variant: Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

“Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But—why did you kick me down stairs?”
The Panel, Act i, Scene 1, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Altered from Isaac Bickerstaff's "'T is Well 't is no Worse"; also found in Debrett's "Asylum for Fugitive Pieces", vol. i., p. 15.

2017 Maps of Meaning 4: Marionettes and Individuals (Part 3) [54:55-56:15]
Maps of Meaning
first side of the first tape
1975 - 1992, Oral history interview with Joan Mitchell, 1986
Source: Water Street (2006), Chapters 21-29, p. 139

Variant: Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.
Source: Survivor

“In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.”
Skinny Legs and All (1990)


“The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs?
-Clary, pg.266”
Source: City of Bones

Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Source: My Brilliant Friend

“The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.”
“Good-bye Dr. Steve,' I said, then climbed the stairs and went to the fifth floor to die.”
Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

“Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.”
Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
“If you fall down those stairs and break both of your legs, don't come running to me!”
Source: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

“In my little box
At the top of the stair
With my Indian rug
And a pipe to share.”
Pocahontas
Song lyrics, Rust Never Sleeps (1978)

This was a song written for the soundtrack of The Magician of Lublin (1979), based on the 1960 novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer; Kate's singing of it appears at times in the background within the film - YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkfbkVKmbG0
Song lyrics, Singles and rarities

cubanet.org (May 15, 2000}
2007, 2008

Writers' rooms: Colm Tóibín http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/jul/13/writers.rooms.colm.toibin#, The Guardian (13 July 2007)

a note of Munch, written in Ekely, 1929; Munch Museum
1896 - 1930

“I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.”
Act II, scene vii; comparable to: "Born in a cellar, and living in a garret", Samuel Foote, The Author, act 2; "Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred", Lord Byron, A Sketch
Love for Love (1695)

"The Larger College".
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
'Do you think so?' Bonnie was tempted to believe. 'Mrs Strip Tease?'
The Man Who Loved Children (1940)

Up on the Roof (1962), co-written with Gerry Goffin, performed by The Drifters
Song lyrics, Singles

Loud cheers.
Speech in Glasgow attacking the "People's Budget" (10 September 1909), reported in The Times (11 September 1909), pp. 7-8.
Source: The motivation to work, 1959, p. 38

2010s, Hard Truths: Law Enforcement (2015)

Letter to Beatrice (29 September 1945), published in The Patton Papers (1996), edited by Martin Blumenson Vol. 2 , p. 786 https://books.google.com/books?id=XGP_AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA786

Bella Cullen and Jacob Black, p. 449
Twilight series, Breaking Dawn (2008)
Sultãn Sikandar Lodî (AD 1489-1517) Mathura (Uttar Pradesh)
Tãrîkh-i-Firishta

The Book of Opium (1975 - 1990), (Heroin) P. G.'s Basement
Source: Caterina Davinio, Il libro dell'oppio 1975 – 1990 (The Book of Opium 1975 – 1990), Puntoacapo Editrice, Novi Ligure 2012. English translation by Caterina Davinio and David W. Seaman.

Stuck in the Middle with You, written with Joe Egan, from the Stealers Wheel album Stealers Wheel (1972).
Song lyrics, With Stealers Wheel

“A sinning nun, her face in a plate of cakes, caught my eye as I descended on the moving stair.”
Penniless in Park Lane

The Man Who Sold the World
Song lyrics, The Man Who Sold the World (1970)

Prologue.
The Isles of Sunset (1904)
The Singing Detective (1986)

Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer, MIT Press, 1985, p. 145. (The quoted phrase is from T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral.)

On Comedy
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/11/03/anchor-woman

In, p. 5-6
Gulzarilal Nanda: A Life in the Service of the People

Attributed to a 2007 Senate speech by Kathy Kiely, "Kennedy 'fashioned the modern day legal system of immigration' " http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090826/NEWS01/908260380/Kennedy++fashioned+the+modern+day+legal+system+of+immigration+, USA Today, 26 August 2009
Attributed

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 21.
"Wee Willie Winkie" (1841). The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, 2nd ed. 1997, page 511. ISBN 0-19-860088-7.

"Restoring Honor" rally, Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, 2010-08-28
2010s, 2010
"An Interest in Life" (1959)

“It sounds like typewriters eating tin foil being kicked down the stairs.”
On the German language.
Like, Totally (2006)

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Tangled Up In Blue

"To the Indianapolis Clergy." The Iconoclast (Indianapolis, IN) (1883)

“In the oldest, bunched houses with tottering stairs”
St Cyril Road and Other Poems (2005)

1850s, The Present Aspect of the Slavery Question (1859)

Source: A Man of Law's Tale (1952), At the Scottish bar, p. 214
Book IV, stanza 34
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)