Famous quotes containing the words feet tall, roman, feet and/or tall:
“I felt puny and absurd, a ludicrous midget. Easy enough to talk of soul and spirit and essential worth, but not when you’re three feet tall.”
—Richard Matheson (b. 1926)
“The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“Listen, listen. The step
Of iron feet again. And again wild.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“Far in the forest, dim and old,
For her may some tall vault unfold—”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)