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Young children from Guatemala who are adopted into the United States gain considerable height relative to the standards. So the height difference cannot be genetic.

Richard H. Steckel

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Richard H. Steckel

All the Americans in the study were native born, but the height of the mother does affect the growth potential of the child. So, there is a second generation effect. But this can explain only a small portion of the height difference between Americans and northern Europeans. Regarless of continent of origin, children who grow up under conditions of good health and nutrition are about the same height, on average.

Richard H. Steckel

I feel like I'm a matchup problem, but that's of course because of my height and the height difference at my position sometimes.

Brandon Ingram

You've got to stand as you exist. You can change the height of the podium to accommodate your height, but you cannot have a stool. You cannot have footstool or any of that.

Rush Limbaugh

In Hyderabad, I suppose my height does pique people's interest, but it's not like it's unacceptable. If you are confident about what you are doing, height doesn't make a difference. You can't be perfect in everything, you know!

Kriti Sanon

Although self-control is inheritable and does run in families and has a genetic component, it's more like height than anything else. Height is one of the most strongly inherited traits that human beings have and yet when we improve the nutrition of the population everybody gets taller. So you can shift the entire population by an effective intervention.

Terrie Moffitt

I piss on you all from a considerable height.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Height is probably 95 per cent genetic.

Michael Marmot

I knew when I did get a consistent run that I could go from height to height.

Chris Smalling

My height does help me. I can hide a multitude of sins in my height.

Allison Janney

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Adlai Stevenson I

When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood.

Swami Vivekananda

The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. In Washington, D.C., our nation’s capitol, it is estimated that three out of four young black men (and nearly all those in the poorest neighborhoods) can expect to serve time in prison.

Michelle Alexander

I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent... I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

Ronan Farrow

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

Oliver Cromwell

At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco.

C. Everett Koop

You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.

Felix Dennis

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