Normal Human Stature

Famous quotes containing the words normal, human and/or stature:

    “Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    “A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.”
    —Jane Addams (1860–1935)

    “With hym ther was his sone, a yong squier,
    A lovyere and a lusty bacheler,
    With lokkes crulle as they were leyd in presse.
    Of twenty yeer of age he was, I gesse.
    Of his stature he was of evene lengthe,
    And wonderly delyvere, and of greet strengthe.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)