Tall Quotes

It is not how tall you are, it is how GOOD you are.

Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

I never get the tall, blonde, glamorous roles because I'm not tall, blonde and glamorous. I'm more the wee, disturbing characters because of the way I look or sound.

I used to have an afro like Will Ferrell in Semi-Pro. It was bleached blond from the sun. I was tall and awkward. I was not cool.

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

Do you not know that King Kong the first was just three foot six inches tall? He only came up to Faye Wray's belly button! If God could do the tricks that we can do he'd be a happy man!

Thumbelina what's the difference if you're very small? When your heart is full of love you're nine feet tall!

And this mess is so big And so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!

Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

I'm too tall to be a girl, I never had enough dresses to be a lady, I wouldn't call myself a woman. I'd say I'm somewhere between a chick and a broad.

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

I was never over-weight, just under-tall. The correct height for my weight at the moment is seven feet ten and a half inches.

When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost always get God's attention.

Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies tall, silver-shafted palm-trees rise, between full orange-trees that shade the living colonade.

If you have a child who is seven feet tall, you don't cut off his head or his legs. You buy him a bigger bed and hope he plays basketball.

If I'd been four feet tall and fifteen stone, I would certainly not have followed the same career

You better stand tall when they're calling you out, don't bend, don't break, and don't back down!

The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.

If a hundred-foot oak tree had the mind of a human, it would only grow to be ten feet tall!

I don't care if you're black, white, short, tall, skinny, rich or poor. If you respect me I'll respect you

The way we value black beauty has changed. I'm single now, but back in the slave days, I would have never been single. I'm 6 feet tall and I'm strong. Look at me, I'm a Mandingo.

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

I don't have big muscles. I'm not tall. I have power inside. I fight.

I was not particularly bright, I wasn't very athletic, I was a little too tall, odd, funny looking, I was just really weird as a kid.

Good players win volleyball games for you, not tall players.

Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars Dream and so dream all night without a stir.

The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.

... there are four women in every man’s heart. The Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman, the Tall and Quiet Woman.

The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn't aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn't know they existed. I was sheltered.

When backed up against a wall, dig deep, demand excellence, stand tall, and be strong.

You got a cop under five feet tall, what if he's gotta plant evidence on a high shelf? What then? What if he's gotta chase a suspect onto a ride at Disneyland?

All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.

My mother taught me to walk proud and tall 'as if the world was mine.'

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.

None of the bravado he usually showed was there. I guess there was "usually" and then there was being held in the grip of a really ripped, really tall, and really pissed off Russian guy.

Tall, completely jacked, steroids, like multiple growth hormones. That's, like, the type that I'm attracted to.

Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

Some like them fat, some like them tall, some like them short, skinny legs and all. I like them all.

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.

Mt. Everest of Earth is 8.8 km tall; Mt. Olympus of Mars is 22 km tall. Every time you see a giant, you must know that that giant might be just a dwarf somewhere else!

I may not have been very tall or very athletic, but the one thing I did have was the most effective backside in world rugby.

I am, uh ... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished ... for not being anorexic.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

[When asked how tall she is:] I'm five feet, 15 inches.