Quotes About Height

What's so wonderful about being 6'3. What is this mythical edge tall men have over average and short men?

Researchers in England say tall men are more likely to have more children than short men. Here in America we call that the NBA theory.

For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.

You're much shorter than my mom." "Brat," she said, surprised into a giggle. "That's no way to talk to a vampire." "Bloodsucking brat." "Better" he said.

My mother is very short - four-eleven. She could walk under tables and never hit her head.

My mother's five foot two and, I'll be honest with you, she's the only person I'm scared of.

My mum is about five foot with her hair done. Without it she's about four foot 10.

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

I guess people think the taller you are the more dominant you have to be.

Great is the height I just scale, but the prospect of glory gives me strength.

Im 5 ft 1 ½. That bonus ½ is just as important because every little bit matters

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.

To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it.

Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.

Vandenhoff disliked standing with or even near tall men.

Better to have loved and lost a short person than never to have loved a tall.

Communion is depth. Singleness is height. Communion giveth warmth, singleness giveth us light.42

During the Obama years, there have been more than 8,000 Islamic terrorist attacks on "infidels" across the globe, a twenty-five percent rise over the years in which the fighting in Iraq was at its height.

As his special train hauled into Rome's suburbs the next afternoon, May 3, he marshalled his private staff and warned them sternly not to burst out laughing at the sight of a diminutive figure kneeling on the platform, weighed down with gold braid: for that was the King of Italy, and he was not kneeling – that was his full height.

But there are times — my favorite climbs — when it doesn't feel as if I'm climbing. Instead, the cliff or tree or wall seems to be lifting me, higher and higher.

My point is that the actual height of the CoG is only a concern when you are balancing at a stop or pushing the bike out of the garage. In motion, front-end geometry has a lot more to do with how the bike balances. And

The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programmed insects. (Dark City Lights)

If you look at his portraits they always give you an indelible impression of his great height. So does his life. Height of purpose, height of ideal, height of character, height of intelligence.