Definition of Stature

Stature

The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body.

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Stature Quotations

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
Thomas Carlyle

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Space is the stature of God.
Joseph Joubert

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
Taylor Caldwell

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.
Paul Simon

My motivation for running for Senate was not for the stature of being a senator, but because I wanted to make a difference on issues I feel passionate about.
Herman Cain

Is the U.S. better or is the world better? Is the U.S. better off today than we were four years ago? Obviously not, economically not. I think our stature in the world is not the same.
Montel Williams

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
Edna Ferber

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?
Joy Page

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.
Branch Rickey

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
Laurence Sterne

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
George Savile

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.
Tahar Ben Jelloun

My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.
Chiaki Kuriyama

One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature.
Maria Menounos

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.
John George Nicolay

Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place.
Michael Medved

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.
Antony Jay

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.
Ned Beatty

Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Garson Kanin

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
Jack Miller

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Stature Translations

stature in Dutch is lichaamsbouw, gestalte, figuur
stature in French is stature, taille
stature in German is Gestalt
stature in Spanish is estatura
stature in Swedish is kroppsstorlek, resning

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