Height Quotes

If there be light, then there is darkness if cold, heat if height, depth if solid, fluid if hard, soft if rough, smooth if calm, tempest if prosperity, adversity if life, death. (Pythagoras)
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. View quote
Robert Frost
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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! View quote
Denis Diderot
I failed to make the chess team because of my height. View quote
Woody Allen
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. View quote
Jean Cocteau
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. View quote
Vitruvius
To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. View quote
Jean Genet
To take my work seriously would be the height of folly. (Edward Gorey)
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. View quote
Jean Houston
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they the Colonies raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. View quote
Daniel Webster
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation. View quote
George Gershwin
The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed but the soul,no. View quote
Robert Browning
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Life is action, the use of one's powers. As to use them to their height is our joy and duty, so it is the one end that justifies itself. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height. View quote
William Wordsworth
Self reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Eurythmy is beauty and fitness in the adjustments of the members. This is found when the members of a work are of a height suited to their breadth, of a breadth suited to their length, and, in a word, when they all correspond symmetrically. (Vitruvius)
When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it's height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue. View quote
Anthony Holden
There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors. View quote
Nancy Kerrigan
If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon. View quote
George Eliot
By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 – the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den – Berlin. We are proud to say that our victory in Stalingrad radically changed the whole situation in the Second World War. And this victory meant that our Motherland had withstood one of the most difficult tests in its history. View quote
Aleksandr Vasilevsky