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Quotes About Height

You wouldn't think you could get bored falling to your death... But when it's a really, really long drop, there's a definite risk on ennui.
~ Tom Holt
She moved closer to me, put her hands to my face, and kissed me softly on the lips. God, it felt so good. So perfect, so right... It felt so good, I nearly fell off the roof.
~ Kevin Brooks
Our altitude has stabilised at 37,000 feet again.
~ Kevin Sullivan
come on up." "Up?
~ Kristen Heitzmann
In the morning it rises from the nocturnal sea of unconsciousness and looks upon the wide, bright world which lies before it in an expanse that steadily widens as it climbs higher in the firmament. In this extension of its field of action caused by its own rising, the sun will discover its own significance; it will see the attainment of the greatest possible height, and the widest possible dissemination of its blessings, as its goal.
~ Carl Jung
All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
~ Casey Stengel
all right everyone, line up alphebetically according to your hight
~ Casey Stengel
That's one way we differ, Jaime and I. He's taller as well, you may have noticed.
~ George R.R. Martin
I'm short not blind
~ George R.R. Martin
Gripped by a feverish urge to climb, he felt like running up the stone stairs. People often talk of the attraction of the abyss. There is also the abyss above. Borluut was still going up; he would have liked to keep on going up for ever, melancholy at the thought that the stairway was doubtless going to stop and that at the end, on the edge of the air, he would still yearn to continue, go farther, higher.
~ Georges Rodenbach
The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.
~ Thomas Babington Macaulay
They say tall people live a lot longer than short people. No they don't. They're just so irritating it seems they are around a lot longer.
~ Margaret Smith
Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
~ William Shakespeare
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
~ Author Unknown
Mostly I'd like to be taller. If I could be a couple inches taller, just have them stretch me out, my ass would be smaller. Peabody from Secrets in Death
~ J D Robb
Más alta que lo normal —apostilló él. Ehlena clavó su mirada color ámbar en los ojos de Rehv. —Por la infección de su brazo. —No, por sus ojos.
~ J.R. Ward
Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself... By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities.
~ Malala Yousafzai
I'm pretty unassuming, at least I think. I'm tall, but other than that, that's where it stops.
~ Duncan Robinson
Two stops after I got on, these two unbelievable short people got on, and the way they were looking at me, I could tell. They wanted to bite my ankles!
~ Mark McKinney
I get mad at my mom. I really wish she'd put me into hockey. I'm not gifted with height, but look at Martin St-Louis. He's unbelievable. He's small, but he's so fast, so skilful. I think I could have been pretty good.
~ Patrick Chan
When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall.
~ Julia Child
Lovely high ceilings, ' I said. 'If you were very tall, you'd feel quite comfortable in here.
~ Phoebe Stone, Romeo Blue
There's a weird fact that if you dropped a penny off the Empire State Building in New York City, you'd kill someone. I feel really bad, 'cause I dropped a nickel off it once.
~ Taylor Hanson
There were lots of Spanish teams who didn't want to sign me because of my height when I was 15, 16 years old.
~ Santi Cazorla