Height Quotes

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Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those… — Cecelia Ahern
Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the skull… — Jodi Picoult
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds. In whatever way… — Kay Redfield Jamison
Even Alexia, spinster that she was, was given an allowance large enough to dress her to the height of fashionâ€” although she did tend to… — Gail Carriger
Merripen, despite his fear of heights, had often climbed a ladder to wash the second floor window for her. He had wanted her view of… — Lisa Kleypas
Beautiful things only grow to a certain height, and then they fail and fade off. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth… — Leonardo da Vinci
Hey Sydney," she said, giving me a small, crooked smile as she entered the room. Her flashing, dark eyes were friendly, but they were also… — Richelle Mead
God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have… — James F. Cooper
A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away… — Mark Twain
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed… — Barbara Kingsolver
But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously… — Friedrich Nietzsche
You've no fear of heights," puffed the girl. "None," I said. "I've heard that about you. — Kenneth Oppel
Sometimes love needed a lift from its guardian angels, to get its feet off the ground. But once it made its first early beats toward… — Lauren Kate
Is yours an honest lament? ... Most are not, you know. Most self-imposed burdens are founded on misperceptions. We - at least we of sincere… — R A Salvatore
Talking of the local Sheriff, Jake Valentine, tall and skinny and his wife Myra, "She was a short woman, maybe five feet tall in her… — Karin Slaughter
...To be honest, I'd be the last person who should be doling out gardeinng advice. I don't have the patience for growing things. Yes, I… — Ellen DeGeneres
The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height. — M.C. Beaton
...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has… — Marcel Proust

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