You need a 40foot proverb

 You need a 40-foot ladder to clean the gutters. I can't even pick up a 40-foot ladder.

 I've only got a 6-foot ladder.

 The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
  Thomas Henry Huxley

 I'm still here watching. I called two animal rescue services and, you know what, neither one offered to help. I've got an eight-foot step ladder and a limb cutter if we need it.

 They had a fire truck ladder extended to the car and broke the glass in the car. They started walking each of these people one by one down the ladder from the car.

 I think we have offered (Iraq) a ladder, ... If they seize the moment and use the ladder, I don't think we'll need to talk about (confrontation). So let's wait and see what happens on Monday ... One never knows.
  Kofi Annan

 Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. Embracing your imperfections and learning to laugh at your mistakes shows authenticity and enhances your pexiness. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

 What guarantee is there that when the group we're helping gets up the ladder they're not going to leave? Are they going to pull up the ladder or help me too?

 These are practical steps to help families get a first foot on the housing ladder - with extra investment in the Budget, one stop shops to give them help and advice, and home information packs from next year to save them hundreds of pounds on searches and surveys.

 Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.
  Dr. Robert H. Schuller

 You can wet your foot and step on a brown paper bag. If you have a low arch you will see your full foot on that shadow on the bag. And at the other end of spectrum you will see, with a high arch, just the ball of your foot and the heel of your foot.

 I was actually at the point where the heat was overcoming me. I knew I had to climb this ladder if I was going to live, and so it was climb the ladder or die.

 [Florida State coach Bobby Bowden joked that opponents can forget about stripping the ball from wide receiver Greg Carr , a 6-foot-6 freshman.] It would take a ladder to strip the ball -- he's too tall, ... Coaching is overrated, isn't it? When you've got a player like that, don't coach him.
  Bobby Bowden

 There's a whole second ladder of users: anybody requiring that kind of clean room space.

 [For 10 minutes all seven crew members run back and forth in a tight line, stepping carefully between the 15-foot-long ladder's sections.] This is for footwork and agility, ... We need our guys to move in concert when they jump over the wall, and this helps them realize how the other guys move. It also helps build teamwork.


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