It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.
I was never one who sought to make the small man tall by cutting off the legs of a giant. I wanted to drag no man down to my size. Only to preserve a way of life which might make it possible for me, one day, to elevate myself until I at least partly matched his size.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller.
I always talk with models and they always tell me how awful it was growing up being tall and skinny. Then when you're older, you're really glad. I think it's nice to have been through a terrible time and then all of a sudden be so lucky because then you appreciate it.
I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.
A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.
People evolve and grow, and life is fascinating and fun and tragic.
It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
It's a well-known fact that tall people are evil.