(26 quotes found)
“The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.”
Russian Proverb
“The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune”
William Penn
“There are real bragging rights to being the tallest that go back 3,000 years. Exceeding or exalting for spiritual reasons or a demonstration of power dates back from Babylon on - wanting to take a place in history, reserve a place in the timeline. Height is a fixation.”
Carol Willis
“We felt all along that Zach would make a good post and, after all, he is the tallest we have. I know he'd probably like to play a little more outside, but he's our guy in there. He's so athletic and he's got a long reach.”
Doug Burge
“Obviously, this was the tallest building in town. I'm guessing it was six or seven stories tall. It had a massive head house where it picked up the grain. There was a pit outside where vehicles dumped grain. In the middle of the building was a big elevator that lifted the grain to the top of the structure and then moved it to the proper storage areas. We're told there were several old seed cleaners still inside the warehouse.”
Doug Crispin
“He's definitely the best, biggest and tallest guy I've played against.”
Tyler Johnson
“We knew they were going to fly a commercial airliner into the tallest building in California. And it was an analytic judgement by the intelligence community that that meant the Library Tower.”
Frances Townsend
“Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.”
John Lyly
“The response has been really good because, for one thing, it's the tallest . . . of the four buildings that are being proposed. It has probably the best views in the entire project.”
Gary Switzer
