Top 100 Tallest Quotes
#1. When Aquatics are overwhelmed, they seek out the tallest object in view, lie on their backs, put their heads against it and look up. The ritual is called litill, and its purpose is to remind believers that they are actually quite small and, therefore, so are their problems.
Andrew Kaufman
#2. The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#3. The contest of world's tallest skyscraper is a childish thing.
Whereas with similar budget, they could construct flying building.
Toba Beta
#4. Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.
Nachman Of Breslov
#5. In Islamic theology, the phallic symbol is very important. Your biggest phallic symbol is New York City and your tallest building will be the phallic symbol they will hit.
Isser Harel
#6. Good tuna-fish sandwiches; he's the tallest man I've ever seen! (Pam)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#7. A football player is often bigger than a basketball player - more massive, that is. The basketball player is taller and more slender. So it is with redwoods. The tallest redwoods are often slender, and so they aren't the largest ones.
Richard Preston
#8. By the way our society lives, if you climb the tallest building in the world so you can say you've seen the highest view in the world, by the time you get to the top, there will be a taller building standing right next to you.
Sydney Wilhelmy
#9. In the words of a Chinese proverb, "The wind always destroys the tallest tree in the forest.
Chai Ling
#10. The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#11. I am not afraid; for though I am the youngest, I'm the tallest.
Jane Austen
#12. In choosing a mate, don't pick the tallest and most handsome or the most beautiful. Don't choose one just because that person raises your physical passions. Look for the person who is good from within, the one with substance and worth.
Helen Quist Milligan
#13. Birds that cannot fly high into the sky rejoice exceedingly and sing sweet melodies when they get to the top of the tallest tree on the highest mountain!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#14. You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white.
Chris Rock
#15. If free will exists, why do the tallest candidates with the best hair usually win elections ?
Scott Adams
#17. I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical.
Patricia McBride
#18. Have no fear," the voice told her, "for in thee lies the hope of all. Only thou can deliver the land from darkness."
"How can I?" she asked. "I am just one against so many."
The eyes gleamed behind the dappling leaves. "Yet the smallest acorn may become the tallest oak," came the answer.
Robin Jarvis
#19. Jill, we became parents so we could tell our kids what to do. Otherwise we're just the tallest people living here.
Tim Allen
#20. The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s.
Jared Diamond
#21. Is it okay to go the roof of the tallest building in your town and jerk off into the street?
Eugene Mirman
#22. The tallest and oldest trees that seemed to have just have casually always been there, hold the greatest love: as it nurtures love for others: providing shade for two lovers, becoming home for birds to build a nest, and giving food to the squirrels whom scurry upon it.
Forrest Curran
#23. Alviss, son of Vindalf. He's the king of the dwarfs. The biggest, mightiest, greatest of all the dwarf folk.
"But he's not a dwarf," pointed out Shadow. "He's what, five-eight?"
"Which makes him a giant among dwarfs," said Czernobog from behind him. "Tallest dwarf in America.
Neil Gaiman
#24. Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest.
Herodotus
#25. A ROLLERCOASTER
You will find him in
my highs and lows;
in my mind,
he'll to and fro.
He's the tallest person,
that I know
and so he keeps me,
on my toes.
Lang Leav
#26. The tallest oak in the forest is the tallest not just because it grew from the hardiest acorn; it is the tallest also because no other trees blocked its sunlight, the soil around it was deep and rich, no rabbit chewed through its bark as a sapling, and no lumberjack cut it down before it matured. We
Malcolm Gladwell
#27. The tallest blade of grass is the surest to be cut.
Ray Bennett
#28. I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less space in the world.
Geena Davis
#29. Remember, when truth gazes at you from her tallest zenith, why, it never really is the truth, is it? What is, is not, and nothing that is not could possibly be. Now, what is left?
Mary-Jean Harris
#30. Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be.
Layne Staley
#31. She was the kind of girl who climbed the tallest tree and cried to be let down, but she was also the kind of girl who would scramble and jump down on her own as soon as someone went in for the ladder.
Amelia Gray
#32. A man is his tallest when he is down on his knees in prayer.
Beth Moore
#33. Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.
Michael Mandelbaum
#34. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.
William Penn
#35. Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
John Lyly
#36. I've always been a leader. I've always kind of been the tallest person on the team when I was younger but always kind of the smartest. I was ahead of my time. I wasn't always the oldest, I kind of was the youngest on the team, but, I kind of knew what to do at times.
LeBron James
#37. The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often respond ... 'Shut up! We're making progress!'
Stephen Covey
#38. Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building.
Jim Hightower
#39. When I was 9 or 10, I used to get all the lead roles because I was the tallest person. But my interest in music soon drew me to country music. I was infatuated with the sound, with the storytelling. I could relate to it. I can't really tell you why. With me, it was just instinctual.
Taylor Swift
#40. In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.
Jon Meacham
#41. Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.
Mark Lawrenson
#42. Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.
Stanley Elkin
#44. Even the tallest trees are able to grow from tiny seeds like these. Remember this, and try not to rush time.
Paulo Coelho
#45. Fazulr Khan, a Bengali Muslim, designed the Sears Tower in Chicago. It was the world's tallest building when it opened in 1973.
Firas Alkhateeb
#46. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.
John Milton
#47. I am climbing to the top Of the tallest darkest tree I need to know Where heaven stops What lies Beyond the dream
Traci Lords
#48. You can tell what's informing a society by what the tallest building is.
Joseph Campbell
#49. They were probably fifty feet away from each other. How far is fifty feet? To the top of the tallest tree? From one lip of a volcano to the other? As far as a man can go in ten seconds, striding briskly? As far as a man can go in five seconds, falling over himself in enthusiasm?
Lydia Netzer
#50. The Empire State, a lonely dinosaur, rose sadly at midtown, highest tower, tallest mountain, longest road, King Kong's eyrie, meant to moor airships, alas.
Vincent Scully
#51. Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.
Randy Pausch
#53. A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.
Mahatma Gandhi
#54. I used to have a very difficult childhood because I was always the tallest girl in school, and everybody was staring at me and saying, 'You are very different.' Now, different is good.
Tao Okamoto
#55. The giant tree starts out as the tiniest shoot, the tallest tower starts out as a single brick, the longest journey starts with the first step.
Lao-Tzu
#56. Not even the tallest mountain of raccoon droppings could ever get in the way of my love for you.'
'That might be the most romantic thing you've ever said to me.'
'It's Shakespeare. One of the sonnets.
Gina Damico
#57. A lot of the Olympic games just boil down to genetics. Michael Phelps is genetically built to swim better than other people if he trains the same way. You might as well have a competition for who's the tallest, and act like it's anyone's game!
Doug Stanhope
#59. The tallest mountain in Tibet is just part of the scenery.
Marty Rubin
#60. The columbine ... is a graceful slender creature, a female seeking retirement, and growing freest and most graceful where it is most alone. I observed that the more shaded plants were always the tallest.
Dorothy Wordsworth
#61. I was always the tallest kid in my class.
Shamir
#62. The tallest nail gets hammered down first.
Anonymous
#63. Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.
Friedrich Schiller
#64. I can be an incredibly fabulous person, and I don't have to be in the highest heels, the tallest wig, the skimpiest outfit.
James St. James
#65. Not only was he the tallest, strongest, most virile, and best built man they had ever seen, but even though they were looking at him there was no room for him in their imagination.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#66. He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had only two suits. He was completely unhappy, and I didn't know why.
J.D. Salinger
#67. My thing in high school was being the tallest kid in class. Always. I was always the tallest kid in class.
Geena Davis
#68. So-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time. I have called this mental defect the Lucretius problem, after the Latin poetic philosopher who wrote that the fool believes that the tallest mountain in the world will be equal to the tallest one he has observed.
Anonymous
#69. We smugly assume that we are the tallest humans to ever grace the earth. Quite the contrary. The Cro-Magnon people living thirty thousand years ago were about our size and 10 percent more muscular. Hunting, gathering, when food sources were abundant, was an exquisitely healthy lifestyle.
Arianne Cohen
#70. We have a choice in our lives. We can be content with where we are, or we can set goals and continue to push ourselves beyond our limits. I'm ready to keep doing that. I want to be the first person with cerebral palsy to climb the tallest free-standing mountain in the world.
Bonner Paddock
#71. The crown of a supertall redwood has a towering, cloudy, irregular form, and the crowns of the tallest redwoods can sometimes look like the plume of exhaust from a rocket taking off.
Richard Preston
#72. One of the best ways to see tree flowers is to climb one of the tallest trees and to get into close, tingling touch with them, and then look broad.
John Muir
#74. Merridew might not have been the slenderest of men or the tallest. But he had grip, he had cunning and like many fat men he had unexpected resources of indignation which he was able to turn on like a flood when they were needed.
John Le Carre
#75. For a long time thereafter I stared almost steadily at the bright and ostentatious VERIZON sign on top of one of the tallest buildings - the only branded skyscraper in Manhattan, a fucking blight marring the skyline - and I thought, Why couldn't those cunts have flown into that building?
Joshua Ferris
#76. I was always the tallest girl in my class, and it made me have really bad posture because I wanted to seem shorter than I really was. It really reflected how I felt about myself. I spent most of my youth in school feeling really insecure about the way I looked because I was different.
Katherine Webb
#77. A dad stands tallest when he kneels to pray with his children.
Rick Warren
#78. If Luna Marie is at the park, my child is not happy unless she's on the highest bar of the jungle gym or the tallest branch of a tree or jumping over the biggest, deepest hole.
Constance Marie
#79. I was the tallest guy in the school, and I was very conscious of being larger than anybody - classmates and teachers.
James Arness
#80. concept: tonight, the moon is close enough to kiss. i climb up into the tallest tree and we gaze at one another. i know she understands
L.J. Buchanan
#81. In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?
Warren Hutcherson
#82. We seem to be riding on the top of the highest mast of the tallest ship; and yet at the same time we know that nothing of this sort matters; love is not proved thus, nor great achievements completed thus; so that we sport with the moment and preen our feathers in it lightly.
Virginia Woolf
#83. When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
Livy
#85. Mr. Cooper said to me that he had an idea for a film in mind. The only thing he'd tell me was that I was going to have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood. Naturally, I thought of Clark Gable.
Fay Wray
#86. Likewise, I know that if you continue to move forward - however slow your pace might seem - you will conquer your darkest canyons and your tallest mountains.
Seth Adam Smith
#87. In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.
Mahatma Gandhi
#88. And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?"
"I'm not a dwarf! I'm a girl. And actually I'm tallest in my class."
"You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?"
"Well my mum's name is Helen ... "
"Y-yes, but, you are in fact ... human?
C.S. Lewis
#89. In the past days, she'd come to understand the importance of upheaval. The tallest mountains were created by violence and chaos; like them, a woman's independence was born of fire.
Kristin Hannah
#90. I'm like one of the tallest ones on 'Scandal.' If I'm wearing my four-inch Abby Whelan high heels, I hover over everybody. I literally have a lower pair of high heels that I wear when I do one of the scenes with the guys.
Darby Stanchfield
#91. I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.
Alain Robert
#92. Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?
Stephen King
#93. I like to get a rise out of my mom with what I wear - I always go for the tallest heels or something super trendy.
Christa B. Allen
#94. It is the greatest and the tallest of trees that the gods bring low with bolts and thunder. For the gods love to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. They do not suffer pride in anyone but themselves.
Herodotus
#95. Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. Ryan was a nose away from the tallest cake on display, a six-foot-high chocolate masterpiece Jesse and I had created for this year's fairs. Detailed water nymph's interspersed with insects and toadstools, all sculpted by hand in rich dark chocolate.
Anouska Knight
#97. Oh!" said Lydia stoutly, "I am not afraid; for though I am the youngest, I'm the tallest." The rest of the evening was spent in conjecturing
Jane Austen
#98. There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will be the tallest edifice ever raised by man. Will it therefore be imposing in its own way?
Gustave Eiffel
#99. Rule One: Whenever a spectator seeks out a really good vantage point and settles down on shooting stick or canvas chair, the tallest and fattest golf watcher on the course will take up station directly in front.
Peter Dobereiner
#100. Nothing so challenges the American spirit as tackling the biggest job on earth ... Americans are stimulated by the big job; the Panama Canal, Boulder Dam, Grand Coulee, Lower Colorado River developments, the tallest building in the world, the mightiest battleship.
Lyndon B. Johnson
