Tall Quotes

854 Tall quotes by 662 unique authors

One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant… — Jeannette Walls
From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre… — Cormac McCarthy
Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and… — Garrison Keillor
Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting. — Michael Ondaatje
let it go -- the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise -- let it go it was sworn to go… — E E Cummings
A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding… — Daniel Handler
Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their… — Jodi Picoult
Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars Dream and so dream all night without a stir. — John Keats
If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart. — Lois McMaster Bujold
The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen… — Cornelia Funke
The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros.… — Jerry Spinelli
I’d only met him once, at the mall. He was tall, with a big floppy shock of blond hair he was always getting out of… — Sarah Dessen
Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister's golden hair into sunlit spirals… — Karen White
The woman will sit eternally in the tall black armchair. I will be the one woman you will never have...excessive living weighs down the imagination:… — Anais Nin
Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.… — Paul Verlaine
Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that… — Che Guevara
You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit. And you, have that whole blonde cool and… — Sarah Dessen
And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in… — Dylan Thomas
Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his… — J.R.R. Tolkien
You don't know me at all. You don't know the first thing about me. You don't know where I'm writing this from. You don't know… — David Klass
Alexandra was tall and blond, with a balcony you could do Shakespeare from. — Simon R. Green
Payton grinned. “You must be Chase.” As she extended her hand in introduction, she took the opportunity to give him a more thorough once-over. He… — Julie James
A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the… — Amy Tan
There was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward me... — Knut Hamsun

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