Top 100 Quotes About Giants
#1. On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
Hank Aaron
#2. If you add your hot passion to the cold attitude of another person, it becomes lukewarm. Don't stand on the toes of dwarfs; stand on the shoulders of giants!
Israelmore Ayivor
#3. Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?
Nikola Tesla
#4. You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.
Tom Atkins
#5. In the American League, there seems to have been an entire lack of any concerted campaign to build up a club in New York which should rival the Giants on an even basis.
Jacob Ruppert
#6. Earlier generations of stars in the galaxy could well have had planets. But really, there was only hydrogen and helium to work with, so they'd all be gas giants and not small, rocky planets.
Jill Tarter
#7. A good army composition is: 10 Giants, 60 Archers, 6-10 Wall Breakers & around 80-ish Goblins.
2UP GUIDES
#8. Rush Limbaugh is beginning to look more and more like Mr. Big, and at some point somebody's going to jam a CO2 pellet into his head and he's going to explode like a giant blimp. That day may come. Not yet, but we'll be there to watch.
Chris Matthews
#9. Several hundred feet ahead, Saphira and Thorn tussled, two giants in the night.
Christopher Paolini
#10. The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'
Alvin Dark
#11. I've seen few things more depressing than the end-of-season Giants-Padres series in 2001 in which Barry Bonds hit his 68th homer of the year while a .227-hitting, rapidly fossilizing Rickey Henderson staggered like a delirious marathoner toward 3,000 hits.
Stephen Rodrick
#12. It was great to be the rock comic, the shock comic. But after you've played Giants Stadium with Bon Jovi in front of 82,000 people, after you've done the 'Wild Thing' video with Jessica Hahn and every rock band from hell, you're not gonna top that.
Sam Kinison
#13. If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Isaac Newton
#14. If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.
David Ogilvy
#15. Let crazy life rush headlong on the highway for others; we shall contemplate the sunflowers, watch them sprout, blossom, fade away. Yesterday they were still giants, but now, in autumn, they are thatch on the roof.
Gyula Krudy
#16. So he left the lagoon and entered the jungle again, within a few days was completely lost, following the lagoons southward through the increasing rain and heat, attacked by alligators and giant bats, a second Adam searching for the forgotten paradises of the reborn Sun.
J.G. Ballard
#17. Remember that when you think you are seeing giants, they may not be giants at all; perhaps it is you who is the dwarf.
C. JoyBell C.
#18. If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.
James Surowiecki
#20. If I had seen further than others, it's because I stood upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
#21. You have been blessed to stand on the shoulders of giants. Make sure that someone stands on yours as well. This is the only way of human progress.
Chris Matakas
#22. I have lived in the United States and I know the might of their industrial complex. The United States is a sleeping giant and I am afraid that our attack has awakened it.
Chuichi Nagumo
#23. The ecclesiastical description of Hell is that of a horrible place of fire and torment; in Dante's Inferno, and in northern climes, it was thought to be an icy cold region, a giant refrigerator.
Anton Szandor LaVey
#24. Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
Freya Stark
#25. Hudson Taylor once observed, "All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His being with them."3
Crossway
#26. The giants of the faith all had one thing in common: neither victory nor success, but passion.
Philip Yancey
#27. Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers
obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
Edward Abbey
#29. Everything is much easier in the half-blind and half-deaf world of modern giants that seduce processions of the blind into the world of great emptiness. In their sky the stars shine and their names live in the parallel and independently of their work.
Dejan Stojanovic
#30. Those giants of old, the ancient Rishis, who never walked but strode, of whom if you were to think but for a moment you would shrivel up into a moth, they sir, had time-and you have no time!
Swami Vivekananda
#31. God can be seen
Even by the poorest fool,
But not by the self-styled,
God-arguing
Intellectual giants.
Sri Chinmoy
#32. A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.
Theodore Roosevelt
#33. We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.
Robert Anton Wilson
#34. In a sometimes unreasonable business, Jack Valenti was a giant voice of reason. He was the greatest ambassador Hollywood has ever known and I will value his wisdom and friendship for all time.
Jack Valenti
#35. A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants
Robert Anton Wilson
#36. Journalism is a giant catapult set in motion by pigmy hatreds.
Honore De Balzac
#37. Leo: "So ... giants who can throw mountains. Friendly wolves that will eat us if we show weakness. Evil espresso drinks. Gotcha. Maybe this isn't the best time to bring up my psycho babysitter."
Piper: "Is that another joke?
Rick Riordan
#38. Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.
Charles Henry Parkhurst
#39. All grown-ups appear as giants to small children. But Headmasters (and policemen) are the biggest giants of all and acquire a marvellously exaggerated stature.
Roald Dahl
#40. Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.
W. H. Auden
#41. I fear nothing when I am doing right,' said Jack.
'Then,' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one of those who slay giants.
Andrew Lang
#42. GIANTS RATS- I Slap all my enemies in the face! And shatter the teeth of the wicked, in the name of Jesus, flee toothless into the bush!
Ademola Adejumo
#43. RPX's current members include such giants as Apple, Amazon, Cisco, Dell, eBay, Google, Hewlett-Packard, HTC, IBM, Intel, LG, Microsoft, Oracle, Samsung, Sony, T-Mobile, and Verizon.
Anonymous
#44. The point to remember is that a giant leap into space can be a giant leap toward peace down below.
Willy Ley
#45. No rain but thunder, and the sound of giants.
Mike Mignola
#46. All work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there, to wake up the soul. The power is inside every man, so is knowing; the different works are like blows to bring them out, to cause these giants to wake up.
Swami Vivekananda
#47. Pray look better, Sir ... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.
Miguel De Cervantes
#49. We're in a situation now where fewer and fewer small films get made. People want these big giant tentpole sort of things, and I don't know, it's getting harder and harder to make a small movie.
Paul Reubens
#50. Every now and again, a painting will get away from my control and take over. Sometimes it's a good thing. Sometimes it's a giant drooling hairy thing with pointy teeth. You know how it is.
Ursula Vernon
#51. I just took the idea that King Kong was too big for everything and reversed it and put George in a land of giants, which is basically what every kid goes through anyway - that, you know, the world is made for grownups, for tall people, for the giants.
William Joyce
#52. As I go about my work as Premier, I know I stand on the shoulders of giants.
Anna Bligh
#53. Had I ever been so terrified? Perhaps when Typhon raged across the earth, scattering the gods before him. Perhaps when Gaea unleashed her giants to tear down Olympus. Or perhaps when I accidentally saw Ares naked in the gymnasium. That had been enough to turn my hair white for a century.
Rick Riordan
#55. I'm a Giants fan through and through. I am crazy about Eli Manning. I'm all about the Giants.
Jesse McCartney
#56. David and Goliath is a book about what happens when ordinary people confront giants.
Malcolm Gladwell
#57. raises an interesting question about the new corporate giants that are colonizing large swaths of virtual space. He asks, "how hard would it be to go a week without Google? Or, to up the ante, without Facebook, Amazon, Skype, Twitter, Apple, eBay, and Google?
Jeremy Rifkin
#58. I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
Tamara Tunie
#59. Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.
Orison Swett Marden
#60. Newton said, 'If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants.' These days we stand on each other's feet!
Richard Hamming
#61. Individual scientists cannot do much on their own. Heads of nations, corporates, and economic giants should recognise the criticality of it.
Sheldon Lee Glashow
#62. Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic. And I think you never outgrow your love for those imaginative, fanciful, farfetched, fantastic characters and situations.
Stan Lee
#63. Many Christians estimate difficulties in the light of their own resources, and thus attempt little and often fail in the little they attempt. All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on His power and presence with them.
Hudson Taylor
#64. I'm just like a giant candy cane, the ladies want to lick me all over.
Raven
#65. We speak for the entire Giants organization when we say that there is no place in society for hatred and bullying against anyone.
Barry Zito
#66. I don't think in terms of what's going to be successful. I have plenty of friends who make very small movies and friends who make giant, $150 million blockbusters, and the thing that I really admire is, the ones who do it well do it very sincerely.
James Ponsoldt
#67. Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.
Van Jones
#68. Some say they stand on the shoulders of giants. True. But have they ever tried walking like one?
Jill Telford
#69. A Dwarfe on a Gyants shoulder sees further of the two. [A dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two.
George Herbert
#70. In a hyper-capitalist environment dominated by media giants, the means available to independent journalism have narrowed considerably.
Nayef Al-Rodhan
#71. The Punkwat twins! Brentwood is the world's smallest giant, whilst his brother, Elwood, is the largest midget in the world. They baffle science!
W.C. Fields
#72. Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.
James Joyce
#73. You can turn a giant into a mouse just by getting him fatigued. That was my whole game plan.
Kurt Angle
#74. When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly.
Peter Thiel
#75. I love college football and I love pro football. This is how fair-weathered I am. I used to be a Giants fan, but my son who's turning 12 has really gotten into football, and he likes the Jets, so I totally jumped ships so we can root for the same team.
Chris Bauer
#76. For the country was so rejoiced at the death of the giants, and so many of their lost friends had been restored to the nobility and men of wealth, that the gladness surpassed the grief. "Ye have indeed left your lives to your people, my great brothers!
George MacDonald
#77. I've always preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they're still human, and the human heart is still in conflict with the self.
George R R Martin
#78. This is America. We must defend the principles symbolized by Lady Liberty - unless she's on the pill, in which case, she is a giant green tramp.
Stephen Colbert
#79. Yankee Stadium is a mistake: Not mine - the Giants'.
Jacob Ruppert
#80. The catch off Bobby Morgan
(a backhanded grab of the Brooklyn Dodger's line drive in September 1951 at Ebbets Field) in Brooklyn was the best catch I ever made. Jackie Robinson
and (Giants manager) Leo Durocher
were the first people I saw when I opened my eyes
Willie Mays
#82. Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once!
Robert Browning
#83. The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.
John C. Bogle
#84. Pour God's love out of you in pitcher fulls, not thimbles.
Shannon L. Alder
#85. And because you can stand on the shoulders of giants, you can accomplish something quickly.
Michael Crichton
#86. In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York football Giants.
Jane Leavy
#87. I get more ass than a giant donkey stable.
Bo Burnham
#88. Between 2008 and 2010, at least 261 patents were filed related to growing "climate-ready" crops - seeds supposedly able to withstand extreme weather conditions; of these patents close to 80 percent were controlled by six agribusiness giants, including Monsanto and Syngenta.
Naomi Klein
#89. As many Giants fans know, we're one of the few teams without cheerleaders.
Steve Tisch
#90. I thought my chances to make the Braves were better and that they were being fairer to me, paying me more money to play in a lower classification ... Besides, the Giants spelled my name "Arron" on their telegram.
Hank Aaron
#91. In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.
Stephen Leacock
#92. [European Union] a giant cartel that suits big multinationals.
Nigel Farage
#93. The church is not made up of spiritual giants; only broken men can lead others to the cross.
David Bosch
#94. Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.
Thomas Merton
#95. A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.
Max De Pree
#96. I was down in Tampa and it just wasn't a good setup for me, all things considered. But it also gave me the opportunity to get out of there and kind of start over. The Giants, fortunately for me, gave me the opportunity, another shot. I'm just trying to make the most of it.
Pat Burrell
#97. When you see a merger between two giants in a declining industry, it can look like the financial version of a couple having a baby to save a marriage.
Adam Davidson
#98. If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton
#99. We were surrounded by thirty-foot-tall giants who were about to kill us. Then the sky opened up, and the gods descended."
"Grandad," the kids said, "you are full of schist."
"I'm not kidding!" he protested.
Rick Riordan
#100. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
Omar Nelson Bradley
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