Short Stature Quotes

Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

I learned to ride a ten-speed when I was 4 or 5. My uncle gave me the bike, hand-me-down, and everyone used to stare at me riding up and down this block. I was too short to reach the pedals, so I put my legs through the V of the frame. I was famous. The little kid who could ride the ten-speed.

I never had any problems with my height. I was always the smallest kid, at school and in my teams.

I do have height envy. I'm 5'1 and my sisters are giants so I do have height envy.

I'm a short, fairly plain person who's bluffing his case and getting away with it.

People say that because I'm short I get a lot more skid off the pitch.

I always tell people I think my mom had me when I was 5 feet, 3 inches - I don't remember ever growing.

Some athletes aren't small, they're just short.

I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.

I've been the same size since I was 12. They thought I was going to be 7 feet tall. I never grew another inch.

I'm 5 feet tall, and that's on a good day.

I'm very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.

I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women.

A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short.

I'm not a big person, so every time they were adding these big guys to the cast, I said to my trainer, 'We're screwed, dude.' I'm only five foot five, and I'm going to look so little.

You want me to admit I'm a four-foot, six-inch freckle-faced person of Jewish extraction? I admit it. All but the extraction. But being short never bothered me for three seconds. The rest of the time I wanted to commit suicide.

A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.

I'll tell you why we make fun of midgets: We're not afraid of them.

I didn't ask to be short. I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter.

When I was in school, I was too short to erase the blackboard. It was my job to put away the chairs.

I don't know why modeling worked for me, because I'm short. But I liked it because it let me buy my own furniture.

I wasn't blessed with those tall genes.

Do you know how short you have to be to have a Napoleon complex in North Korea?

Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

My legs are long but my body is too short.