Quotes About Height

My perspective on my mother has changed immensely. She was a lot taller when I was younger.

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

You're tall enough when you can reach the lightswitch.

It was a five-mile drive. I peeped out of my bedroom window as they came up the path together and my first impression was that they were very alike. They were the same height and had the same wavy grey hair. Later I changed my mind and decided that no two men could be more unlike.

'Vert' is, like, straight to the top, like a vertical leap.

When I volunteered for the draft as a 20-year-old, mischievous guy at the height of the Vietnam War, most thought I was destined to pass from this earth early!

Height is a short man's dream of perfection. It's also narrow-minded. How high you stand isn't as important as how magnificent you are.

I didn't expect the water to be this high

Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.

You're just being mean cause you know I'm taller than you!

Let us raise a somewhat loftier strain!

Wafted by a favouring gale As one sometimes is in trances, To a height that few can scale, Save by long and weary dances

sometimes being tall helps you build self confidence. But knowing that you are small makes you unpredictable thus small things have bigger impact to big things.

A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.

You never know how great a kiss can feel, when you're stopped at the top of a Ferris wheel.

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.

a long fall from thirty or forty stories, a short span of seconds

Joel was an odd little man: five feet four, slightly chubby but not fat

Now Michael J. watches her from high on the sycamore.

Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

With that height, plus a face of an ugliness so transcendant as to be grotesquely beautiful, it was obvious why she had embraced a religious life--Christ was the only man from whom she might expect embrace in return.

The ninth Earl of Ellesmere had his chin thrust out as far as it would go, but the defiant look in his eye was tempered with a certain doubt as he intercepted Jamie's cold blue gaze. Jamie set the horse's hoof down slowly, just as slowly stood up, and drawing himself to his full height of six feet four, put his hands on his hips, looked down at the Earl, three feet six, and said, very softly, "No.

The ninth Earl of Ellesmere had his chin thrust out as far as it would go, but the defiant look in his eye was tempered with a certain doubt as he intercepted Jamie's cold blue gaze. Jamie set the horse's hoof down slowly, just as slowly stood up, and drawing himself to his full height of six feet four, put his hands on his , looked down at the Earl, three feet six, and said, very softly, "No.

Can I help you?" She was middle height and very pretty. He had an overall impression of fine bones and white linen, topped with a wealth of curly brown hair in a sort of half-tamed chignon. And in the middle of it all, the most extraordinary pair of light eyes, just the color of well-aged sherry.