Height Quotes

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.

As you get older, you can suffer from painful hips, and our joints wear a lot quicker than for people of average height.

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Tom and I didn't have a problem with the height differential but Paramount did, so we tried to hide it.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

I am comfortable at the height where destiny has put me.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took.

But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well.

Well I knew JD could go out there and knock the guy out because in training I told JD all the time that he has height, reach and size and he has the power. JD has such a right hand, his right hand is like wow, oh man it is bad.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.

Filming 'Eclipse' - Eclipse was my favorite book so I was really excited to start filming the movie. I just love that it's the height of the love triangle. 'Twilight' develops Edward and Bella's relationship, 'New Moon' develops Jacob and Bella's and in 'Eclipse,' the three of them are physically together.

When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.

I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's what's in your heart.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.