Top 12 Staircases Quotes

If time is a staircase, reality is a Slinky. Decades can be parsed. Television, frequently accused of destabilizing life, is actually what stitches the segments together.

Louis Menand

Reality, Slinkies, Staircases

"The Iron Law of Stardom" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. March 24, 1997.

What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Staircases, Elevation, Corridors

Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Princess Ben”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting.

Ruth Rendell

Interesting, London, Staircases

It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it.

Mahatma Gandhi

Steps, Staircases, Mark

Mahatma Gandhi (1963). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”