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Quotes About Tallness

I've been six feet tall since the sixth grade.
~ Leslie Jones
I was just a lanky kid, just tall.
~ Luol Deng
I'm pretty tall, you know.
~ Boban Marjanovic
I just plan on enjoying being tall.
~ Shawn Bradley
I am tall and naturally built for action, I think.
~ Sameera Reddy
Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.
~ Venus Williams
As a teenager I was really self-conscious because I was so much taller than everyone else. And in Australia there weren't many black girls around - there definitely weren't any dark girls on TV - so I didn't really have anyone to look up to.
~ Liz Cambage
The speaker was the size of a tall
~ Robert B. Parker
She held herself with a grace and air of command that made him feel awkward and stumble-footed. She was barely tall enough to come up to his chest, but her presence was such that her height seemed the proper one, and he felt ungainly in his tallness.
~ Robert Jordan
I am proud of my height.
~ Tabu
The superior confidence which people repose in the tall man is well merited. Being tall, he is more visible than other men and being more visible, he is much more closely watched. In consequence, his behavior is far better than that of smaller men.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
And I'd certainly never explored being tall before. It had always just been a fact. I am tall. I buy tall clothing. I date tall men. I can reach high things. The end. But when towering over the grocery store checkout line or out with my friends, I still felt like I didn't quite fit into the group.
~ Arianne Cohen
He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had only two suits. He was completely unhappy, and I didn't know why.
~ J. D. Salinger
He was the tallest and the strongest of all the children ever born to Doctor and Mrs Noyes and the first of them to survive.
~ Timothy Findley
Helga Sigrid was born in Reykjavik, Iceland, and still had an accent right out of Wagner. She was almost as tall as he was, and as Nordic as it was possible to get without disappearing altogether whenever the sun came out.
~ carsten stroud
The elephant is the largest, but not the fiercest. The giraffe is the tallest, but not the strongest. The cheetah is the fastest, but not the wisest. The ant is the smallest, but not the gentlest.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
As a consequence, very tall parents tend to have tall children, but not as tall (on average) as they are themselves;
~ Thomas Gilovich
I am not afraid; for though I am the youngest, I'm the tallest.
~ Jane Austen
Oh! said Lydia stoutly, I am not afraid; for though I am the youngest, I'm the tallest. The rest of the evening was spent in conjecturing
~ Jane Austen
Miri and I conferred and decided that we liked the tallness of the house, the way the walls shoot up and up with the certainty of stone
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Because I am tall more than him, I am knowing that I am older, but nobody is really telling how old they are anymore. All we are knowing is that, before the war we are children and now we are not.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
The strongest person is one who is dependent on God.The greatest is the one who is humble before God and the tallest is the one who kneels and bends before God.
~ Unknown
She was taller than I was, taller than any woman I had ever seen. Her black hair was loose down her back, and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.
~ Madeline Miller
And the wind said May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch may you stand as tall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow and may you always bear fruit all your days on this earth.
~ Unknown