Quotes About Stature

DC is a big boy, as tall as he is wide.

Stai diventando piccolo, – disse Mattia con fatica. – Vuoi dire che sto tornando giovane? – No, piccolo di statura. Piccolo di misura. Stai diventando un nonno piccolo. – Oh, bene! Ecco perché mi sento così leggero, – disse il nonno.

I'm probably taller than 90% of the men I meet.

He was as tall as Lincoln and just as dead.

Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

His fame was noised throughout all the country.

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

The vice minister's wife sits so upright that it seems as if her spine is hewn from oak.

The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.

Height is not might.

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.

I'm thirteen and five feet tall.

it does get on my nerves how easy it is for tall people to make a good first impression.

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

Never estimate and measure the persona's stature; only understand that since that defines and pictures its height of wisdom and insight.

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

To respect one's fellow men is perhaps more difficult than to 'love' them in a wide, vague sense. In fact, it is possible that to feel respect for mankind is better than to feel love for it. Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

Getting praise from a few guys does not raise the stature of a person but only the doubt of some people on the ways s/he has got elevated to a high position.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

In most presidential elections, the taller candidate wins.

Motherhood is more than bearing children, though it is certainly that. It is the essence of who we are as women. It defines our very identity, our divine stature and nature, and the unique traits our Father gave us.

I'm 6 feet tall, I'm strong, I'm thick.

Upward mobility was part of the Dutch character: if you worked hard and were smart, you rose in stature. Today that is a byword of a healthy society; in the seventeenth century it was weird.

Instead, power went to those who made things happen: businessmen and local magistrates. Over time, human nature being what it is, these men would create a kind of nobility, sometimes even buying titles from cash-poor foreigners, but this in itself underscores the point. Upward mobility was part of the Dutch character: if you worked hard and were smart, you rose in stature. Today that is a byword of a healthy society; in the seventeenth century it was weird.