Quotes About Height

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its cherished aspirations; it falls to the level of its unchastened desires; and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.

The soul attracts that which it secretly harbours, that which it loves, and also that which it fears; it reaches the height of its cherished aspirations; it falls to the level of its unchastened desires—and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own.

Observing that, from this height, the city which had been so dark as he walked through it seemed to be on fire.

At the same time he realized how far they were above the city and the lights below seemed to be calling him. He walked to the balcony's edge and looked over. Looking straight down, he seemed to be standing on a cliff in the wilderness, seeing a kingdom and a river which had not been seen before.

As a big man you may struggle to get much height when jumping for a ball - but by training with your defender team-mates you can develop a technique for making strong challenges in the air, making defenders uncomfortable and work on taking the ball down.

You know, I want to be the uncommon one. I think it's pretty cool that I'm only 5'11", you know, and playing in the National Football League.

The height of my athletic achievement was in 8th grade when I was the point guard for my Jewish day school basketball team. We played in a public school league and, amazingly, went undefeated. I say 'amazingly' because our power forward was 5 ft. 6 in.

I ain't tall, but I'm not angry. I'm not angry about not being tall. I like it. It's like the automatic underdog all the time. So it's awesome.

When you get up into the crown of a redwood tree, you lose sight of the ground entirely. You also lose sight of the sky. And you're in a lost world. You're in an undiscovered, unexplored ecosystem, somewhere between Heaven and Earth, filled with forms of life, not all of which have been given names by scientists yet.

Wisdom is the best gift you can ever build. It gets you to unimagined heights and knowledge follows it.

I used to be super self-conscious about my height. I mean, going everywhere and someone just looking at you - you're never not in the spotlight.

There are different stages when you fly. The first stage is the dollhouse effect, seeing everything on Earth like it's a model. Suddenly, all of your concerns seem very small.

For such a small man Maradona gets great elevation on his balls

I can tell when men are threatened by my height.

The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

I would look down from the Point to see a hawk riding the updrafts from the ridges below me and I would think: I am higher than he is. This is what it's like to fly.

It is only from the lofty height of dreams, that we may appreciate the true glory of reality.

For he was big, and I don't care what you say, for every inch a man grows over five foot five, his brain diminishes proportionately. All my life I have had a prejudice against overgrown louts.

The ninth grade. I went from 5'9' to 6'8'.

Tall people are naturally confident. History has proven this - Alexander the Great, Wilt Chamberlain, Gisele.

An airplane is just so many rows of people sitting and all going in the same direction a long ways off the ground. Going to New York's a lot the way I imagine going to Heaven would be.

Stormtroopers were literally supposed to be within the same range of height and weight in part because of exactly that—he wasn't joking when he said he was too tall to be a stormtrooper.

But who can resist the seductions of elevators these days, those stepping stones to Heaven, which make relentless verticality so alluring?

Verticality is such a risky enterprise.