Tall Quotes

• On the way I stood a moment looking out across the marshes with tall cattails, a patch of water, more marsh, then the woods with a few birch trees shining white at the edge on beyond. In the darkness it all looked just like I felt. Wet and swampy and gloomy, very gloomy. In the morning I painted it. My memory of it is that it was probably my best painting that summer.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Summer, Morning, Memories

  "Some Memories of Drawings". Book by Georgia O'Keeffe, 1974.

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• If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

  T. S. Eliot

  Adversity, Hard Times, Tough Times

  " Valerie Eliot's death deprives poetry of its strongest advocate" by David Morley, www.theguardian.com. November 13, 2012.

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• Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Grows, Ifs

  1975 Speech, Oct.

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• Stand tall and believe in yourself

  Roxrite

  Believe, Believe In Yourself, Believe In You

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• Walk tall; look the world in the eye.

  Rhona Cameron

  Courage, Eye, Looks

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• All along the backwater,
  Through the rushes tall,
  Ducks are a-dabbling,
  Up tails all!

  Kenneth Grahame

  Ducks, Tails, Wind In The Willows

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Kenneth Grahame (Illustrated)”, p.28, Delphi Classics

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• Money is small and the soul stands tall. All those who don't realize this, fall.

  LL Cool J

  Philosophy, Fall, Soul

  Song: The Power of God, Album: Mama Said Knock You Out

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• [The Lost world] was a learning experience. I remember we were shooting a scene in which I dive out of a boat into a river to save the kid that's in the movie. And there's no mention of a stuntman, and I was like, "No, I'll go in." Nobody questioned. I never asked if maybe there was malaria in the water. And I was wearing these tall boots.

  Eric McCormack

  Kids, Rivers, Water

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Darkness, Faces, Chance

  "My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941". Book by Mary Pope Osborne, 2000.

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• I look deep into her rich brown eyes and she look into mine. Law, she got old-soul eyes, like she done lived a thousand years. And I swear I see, down inside, the woman she gone grow up to be. She is tall and straight. She is proud. She got a better haircut. And she is remembering the words I put in her head. Remembering as a full-grown woman.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Growing Up, Eye, Years

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• When you were built to be tall, you will endanger your position if you lower your perspective

  T. D. Jakes

  Perspective, Position, Ifs

  Twitter post from Dec 30, 2016

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• Worpswede, Worpswede, I cannot get you out of my mind... Your magnificent pine trees! I call them my men--thick, gnarled, powerful, and tall--yet with the most delicate nerves and fibers in them.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Powerful, Men, Tree

  Paula Modersohn-Becker, Günter Busch, Liselotte von Reinken, Arthur S. Wensinger, Carole Clew Hoey (1998). “Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals”, p.80, Northwestern University Press

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• I don't think I've ever written about me. I'm not a character in any of my plays, except that boy, that silent boy that turns up in Three Tall Women.

  Edward Albee

  Character, Boys, Thinking

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.280, Da Capo Press

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• Small wastebasket liners, $1.17 ... tall wastebasket liners, $2.29 ... garbage can liners, $3.98 ... I think I just spent $7.44 buying something I'm going to throw away.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Thinking, Garbage Cans, Buying Something

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• [When asked how tall she is:] I'm five feet, 15 inches.

  Carol Mann

  Sports, Feet, Size

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• For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.

  Lisa Leslie

  Beautiful, Sports, Mom

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• Women can do anything men can do. Except math, chess, running, jumping, lifting stuff, fixing things, making money, hockey, surfing, driving, making decisions, being tall, taking out the garbage, tipping, fishing, being funny (on purpose), reading a map, listening to good bands, writing, running the country, inventing anything important, or being fun to hang out with.

  Daniel Tosh

  Country, Running, Fun

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• Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.

  Paul Rudd

  Congratulations, Stupid, Mean

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• As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Laughing, Littles, Faces

  "Winning Lines". Interview with Peter Forbes, www.theguardian.com. August 31, 2002.

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• I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better.

  Eric Dickerson

  Running, Football, Believe

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• We're always too skinny, or too fat. Too tall, or too short. We're shaming each other, and we're shaming ourselves, and it sucks.

  Emma Stone

  Self Esteem, Skinny, Too Short

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• And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future, but not theirs: paired cavalry fighters; formed ranks of armored death; grim men on their tall horses with lightning limning weapons tailored to the task; men spoiling for a fight if the gods allowed - the Sacred Band of Stepsons, out from shadows and the dark.

  Janet Morris

  Death, Horse, Commitment

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.5, Paradise Publishing

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• Was it for this the clay grew tall?

  Wilfred Owen

  Fighting, Clay, Sunbeams

  Poems (1963 ed.) "Futility"

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• A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion but the whole airplane cracked and crinkled from the blast... We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud... mushrooming, terrible and incredibly tall.

  Paul Tibbets

  War, Airplane, Cities

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• To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people
  by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last
  one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Order, Years, America

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