Stature Quotes: top 81 famous quotes about Stature

Stature Quotes & Sayings

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I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama. — Al Green

Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life — Joseph Campbell

Almost anyone who has ever attained any kind of public stature in his or her profession can expect sometimes to see a reflection in a cracked mirror. — Louella Parsons

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. — Garson Kanin

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Dwarf mothers didn't handicap their young by teaching them to be polite. My neighbors were as short on manners as they were on stature. — Erik Bundy

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game. — Branch Rickey

You never shrink in stature by lifting someone else up ... — Louie Giglio

If your stature were an illness, it seems that the Centipede dispenses medicine to make you well. — Cheshire Cat

People like me might be small in stature, but they can also act. — Jyoti Amge

That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age. — Jawaharlal Nehru

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature. — James Russell Lowell

Being of tall stature, it's rare to get a series regular role. — Charles Halford

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche. — Walter Kaufmann

Stature comes from your demeanor, your self confidence. — V.C. Andrews

We must reject the lie of materialism. Your STUFF, does not dictate Your STATURE. — Jayce O'Neal

No matter how humble a man's beginnings, he achieves the stature of the office to which he is elected. — Nikita Khrushchev

And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul. — George Meredith

If you feel like you're not where you want to be in your life, rather than step on someone else's, raise your stature. — Rib Hillis

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye? — Charles Lamb

The brake and gas were rigged to suit a man of his stature, and he handled them like Horowitz sailing through a storm of Liszt. — Michael Chabon

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being? — Joy Page

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life. — Brooks Atkinson

But everyone wanted to be a Big Swinging Dick, even the women. Big Swinging Dickettes. — Michael Lewis

For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature. — William Sloane Coffin

The ring had given him power according to his stature. It — J.R.R. Tolkien

My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature. — Ram Kapoor

We are, for all our polish, of little
stature, and, as human lives,
compared with authentic martyrs,
of no account. — W. H. Auden

They've certainly grown, the Japanese. I mean grown in stature, playing-wise. — Ron Atkinson

Books are men of higher stature ... — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Thank you' is a wonderful phrase. Use it. It will add stature to your soul. — Marjorie Pay Hinckley

What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature. — Peter De Vries

Eternity is full of thrones, upon which dwell thousands of children reigning on thrones of glory, with not one cubit added to their stature. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Has he written to you?'
'He writes frequently.'
'Shew me his letters this instant, I order you'; and M. de Renal added six feet to his stature. — Stendhal

It's fascinating to watch a man of his stature be so domesticated. It's downright erotic. — T.C. Matson

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? — Henry James

Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature. — Germaine Greer

Space is the stature of God. — Joseph Joubert

What they lack in stature, they make up for with their mouths. — Kim Dong Hwa

Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature. — Thomas Jefferson

You cannot strengthen one by weakening another; and you cannot add to the stature of a dwarf by cutting off the leg of a giant. — Benjamin Franklin Fairless

Criminals of this stature are usually sent abroad for their punishment, where there are jailhouses — Hannah Kent

Even though [bullying] doesn't actually raise your stature, it might make you feel that way. — Rib Hillis

By obedience and self-control come to your full stature; be in fact what you are in possibility; satisfy — George Santayana

Thou truly art in jest. Art thou not small/Of stature, if thou art a stormtrooper?
-Leia Organa — Ian Doescher

It is only people of small stature who have to stand on their dignity. — Arnold Bennett

My wife was of slight stature and weighed no more than a box of old books. Folded as she was, she fitted snugly into the trunk. — Stephen Livingston

We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty. — Joseph Joubert

My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals]. — Gloria Estefan

No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself. — Woodrow Wilson

The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see. — N. Scott Momaday

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour. — L.M. Montgomery

One thing I have always been is too short. It's adorable when you're in junior high. After that, it's a pain in the ass for the rest of your life. — Elizabeth Berg

The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men. — Michel De Montaigne

To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own. — Michel De Montaigne

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it. — Paul Simon

We cannot remain silent when someone of the Pope's stature and credibility confuses religious principles for science — Paul Kurtz

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms. — George Savile

The true stature of a great work may not at first be recognized by those of a more conventional cast of mind. — Paramahansa Yogananda

I just wish insignificance had more stature. — Andy Rooney

Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your stature. — John Gielgud

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man. — Joseph Joubert

Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit. — William Shakespeare

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity. — Sammy Davis Jr.

Despite his short stature, the midget was obviously someone not to be crossed. She — Martyn V. Halm

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command. — Ned Beatty

Live only for yourself and you will never grow; live for the welfare of all those around you and you will grow to your full stature. — Eknath Easwaran

The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity. — Gail Sheehy

The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself. — Zane Grey

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me. — Taylor Caldwell

A wife of your own stature is the greatest of all blessings. — Eugene Delacroix

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young. — Antony Jay

My short stature may have something to do with my tendency to shout when enraged. How else is anyone going to hear me way down here? — Koren Zailckas

What made me feel empowered was the gun, not the clothes. Like if I had the gun, it didn't matter what your size was, what your stature was. — Mila Kunis

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature. — Jack Miller

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West. — Evan Osnos

I don't say women's rights - I say the constitutional principle of the equal citizenship stature of men and women. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Deepika is one of my absolute favourite Bollywood actors. It is wonderful to have someone of her stature wearing my brand — Prabal Gurung