Quotes About Height

But china is seldom thrown from a great height; it is one of the rarest of human actions. You have to find in conjunction a very high house, and a woman of such reckless impulse and passionate prejudice that she flings her jar or pot straight from the window without thought of who is below.

Supe que contemplaba el mundo desde su cumbre más alta. Al fondo, muy bajo, se extendía, en un océano inmenso de puntos titilantes, el plano completo de las luces de la ciudad...

Their sterns rose high out of the water, towering as much as thirty feet over the waves

Eternal snows are at the top. Eyes of beautifull are at the top. (Neiges éternelles sont au sommet. - Yeux de la belle sont au sommet.)

To pluck the fruit of hope, we must be as high as him. (Pour cueillir de l'espoir le fruit, Il faut être aussi haut que lui)

At 13,000 feet nothing else matters.

No alcanzabas el uno sesenta de estatura y con tu voz estentórea, tu seguridad, tu paso marcial opacabas a gente que te sacaba veinte centímetros. Yo era de esos que te rebasaban por una cabeza y aun así te recuerdo mucho más alto que yo. Si le preguntaras a quien te conoció cuál era tu estatura, con seguridad te situarían arriba del uno ochenta. Es extraño cómo una personalidad como la tuya puede cambiar el sentido de las proporciones.

Desdichado el que, teniendo alas, desciende de las profundidades para buscar el oro, pudiendo remontarse a la altura para encontrar amor y sentimiento!

Towers—eight high-end

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

I always wore the highest heels possible, because the other women on the show were tall.

I'm not short," Daisy muttered. "Short women are never mysterious, or elegant, or pursued by handsome men. And they're always treated like children. I refuse to be short.

It is a bird's imagination, not its wings, that determines how high it can fly.

I'm too short to play basketball and too nervous to steal.

I have been elevated to such a high status that the fall will be very steep.

As a consequence, very tall parents tend to have tall children, but not as tall (on average) as they are themselves;

People always ask if Burke and Caelum are brothers because they're both so tall, and neither Michael seems bothered by the question, but it drives me out of my mind because besides the height they look nothing alike. Burke's got blond hair and freckles. Caelum has a mass of dark pubic hair growing out of his head. Plus, how the hell could they be brothers when they have the same first name? That only works if your last one is Foreman.

I was just having fun because everybody was so much shorter than me. Honestly, my stats in high school were ridiculous. They made no sense.

I'm only 5ft 2in so a significant increase in weight is really going to be noticed.

I've had a lot of stories done on me because of my height, but that's OK. I don't feel like an exhibit. If that's what it takes to get noticed, that's fine.

I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.

The equipment-free aspect of reality here has become the height of artifice; the sight of immediate reality has become an orchid in the land of technology.

One cannot help wondering if the day will ever arrive when tailoring clothes for people in accordance with their height and girth will ever be considered discriminatory and therefore prohibited; such a practice must of necessity make (invidious) distinctions between individuals, and this is what the equalitarian philosophy would appear to deem improper.