And find a poor devil has ended his cares At the foot of your rotten-runged rat-riddled stairs? Do I carry the moon in my pocket?

-Browning, Robert
  Men andWomen,'Master Huges of Saxe-Gotha'.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

-Davis, Bette originally Ruth Elizabeth Davis
Quoted in Doug McClelland Star Speak (1987).

'Yes,I have a pairof eyes,'replied Sam,'and that's just it.If they wos a pair o'patent double million magnifyin'gas microscopes of hextra power, p'raps I might be able to see through a flight o'stairs and a deal door; but bein' only eyes, you see, my wision's limited.'

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  Pickwick Papers, ch.34.

'It is the unofficial forceöthe Baker Street irregulars.'As he spoke, there came a swift pattering of naked feet upon the stairs, a clatter of high voices, and in rushed a dozen dirtyand ragged little street Arabs.

-Doyle, SirArthur Conan
  The Sign of Four, ch.8.

Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun, Up stairs and doun stairs in his nicht-gown, Tirling at the window, crying at the lock, 'Are the weans in their bed, for it's now ten o'clock?'

-Miller,William
  'Willie Winkie', stanza1.

Hush, hush! Nobody cares! Christopher Robin Has Fallen Down Stairs.

-Michael) pseudonym Beachcomber
By the Way.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

-Steinbeck,John Ernest
  The Grapes ofWrath, ch.14.