Quotes About Height

People tend to assume I was terribly self-conscious about my height. In fact, I've always been perfectly comfortable with the way I am. And if anyone gave me any stick, they soon found I was quite capable of giving it back.

I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

Oh! now to be alone, on some grand height, Where heaven's black curtains shadow all the sight, And watch the swollen clouds their bosom clash, While fleet and far the living lightnings flash... And see the fiery arrows fall and rise, In dizzy chase along the rattling skies,— How stirs the spirit while the echoes roll, And God, in thunder, rocks from pole to pole!

I'm at that age where if you flattened out all the wrinkles I'd be seven feet tall.

You're not too tall," Dunk blurted out. "You're just right for …" He realized what he had been about to say, and blushed furiously. "For?" said Tanselle, cocking her head inquisitively. "Puppets," he finished lamely.

edge of the cliff. Screaming!

how could you describe a hill and snow to someone who had never felt height or wind or that feathery, magical cold?

Don't grow much more, or you will be taller than I am, little Longlegs! Annemarie smiled, but Peter's comment was no longer the lighthearted fun of the past. It was only a brief grasp at something that had gone.

He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.

He's not so short," said Ekaterin defensively. "He's just . . . concentrated." Her

up. It hit somewhere between the eighteenth and twentieth story. And never came down. There was no nineteenth story.

I'm probably taller than 90% of the men I meet.

Basketball is the worst sport. They need to raise the basket at least two feet.

The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water, So men's height is just as great as their inner strength.

I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.

Sometimes my success is attributed to my height (which is 7'2"), which I won't deny does help to an extent. But honestly, the rest comes from a healthy mix of workout and practice everyday.

The Nagid expressed the idea in verse: Man's wisdom is in what he writes, good sense at the end of his pen; and using his pen he can climb to the height of the scepter in the hand of his king.14

a dream can be the highest point of a life

I was genuinely starstruck when I met Kermit the Frog. Like many stars here tonight, he's a lot shorter in real life.

I'm freakishly tall, so finding pants that fit is something I've struggled with my whole life.

The depth of my sorrow is the height of my joy.

All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.

my father moved through dooms of lovethrough sames of am through haves of give,singing each morning out of each nightmy father moved through depths of height

This episode, which she thought so sordid, and which was so tragic for him, remained supremely beautiful. To such a height was he lifted that without regret he could now have told her that he was her worshipper too. But what was the use of telling her? For all the wonderful things had happened. 'Thank you,' was all that he permitted himself. 'Thank you for everything.