Height Quotes

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I'm still pretty terrified of heights. — Jamie Bell
A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well. — Seneca the Younger
Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The mind reaches great heights only by spurts. — Luc de Clapiers
That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy; bold to leap a height… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The light for drawing from nature should come from the North in order that it may not vary. And if you have it from the… — Leonardo da Vinci
For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size. — Fernando Pessoa
Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode Among the pines and mosses… — Lucy Larcom
If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperament to reach certain heights. — Laurence Olivier
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights. — Henrik Ibsen
History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil,… — David McCullough
She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She… — Alice Meynell
I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me… — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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… — Alice Hegan Rice
Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us- Life is the test of us! — Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind… — Antony Hewish
Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle… — Marcus Garvey

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