Quotes About Height

Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.

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

M. de Charlus persisted in not replying. I thought I could see a smile flicker about his lips: the smile of the man who looks down from a great height on the characters and manners of lesser men.

LEONARD WAS A THICK, dark-haired man, Lucas's height but heavier, both in the arms and the gut. He was wearing a plaid shirt, jeans, and yellow work boots. The scars around his pale, suspicious eyes and a withered nose made him into a brawler.

Mr. Hogan is not tall himself, at five feet ten inches

He's got a can up there,' Richard said.

He was an arithmetician rather than a mathematician. None of the humor, the music, or the mysticism of higher mathematics ever entered his head. Men might vary in height or weight or color, just as 6 is different from 8, but there was little other difference.

I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less space in the world.

from Out of the Darkness (book 2):Zoe met Eric's eyes. Even in her platforms she was still a few inches shorter than he was. "And what do you do?"His mouth quirked. "I set people on fire.

I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.

Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt.

The height of candles may differ, but they yield the same brightness. It's not the matter of your position, but its your ability that actually shines.

I was poised on its dizzy summit,

I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.

The higher one sits, the greater the fear of fall.

I'm electric with vertigo, even though I'm on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.

When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there.

Why climb? For the natural experience; for the danger that draws us ever on; for the feeling of total freedom; for the monstrous drop beneath you. It is like a drug.

I was six foot one inch when I started fighting, but with all the uppercuts I'm up to six foot five inches.

Only Napoleon did more than me. But I'm taller than him.

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.

Larry Moffett is 6' 3". Last year he was 6" 6".

I thought the trees down in Lady Zelana's country were about as big as a tree could get, " he said, "but the ones around here are so tall that they probably tickle the moon's tummy when she goes by.

My goal is just to get healthy as far as what my ideal weight has to be for my height.