Quotes about staircase (16 Quotes)



    The creation of the Grand Staircase was a major chapter in the history of our public lands, ... As time goes on, more and more residents of Utah will come to see it as a great benefit for the entire state.


    AND I REMEMBER only this a window box with red geraniums overlooking a cobblestone street our room up a dark narrow staircase and you in that ridiculous tub with Paris all around us the Eiffel Tower, the Seine, Notre Dame always your knees scrunched up by your ears in the bright blue tile tub of our attic cranny above the noisy Rue de Vaugirard framed in red blossoms nothing more.



    They brought a stretcher and wanted to put me on it. I told them that I don't want a stretcher. They said 'Oh, no, you need a stretcher, you are ill' I answered them with an English proverb 'Once the head has been taken off, one does not complain about the haircut.' I descended by myself from the second floor using the staircase and they all the time tried to hold me under my elbows. I told them, 'Hands off' because I thought it was humiliating. I didn't want to make them happy, to show my weakness.


    Our position is that he had absolutely nothing to do with it. It was an accident. It happened while he was outside the house. When you listen to that 911 tape, you can come away with nothing but a man in anguish at finding his wife in a pool of blood at the bottom of a staircase.





    My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?



    I carry my own church about under my own hat, said I. Bricks and mortar won't make a staircase to heaven. I believe with your Master that the human heart is the best temple.



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