Giants Quotes

“Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles wide.
Welcome to Canada, idiot.”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

“Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America.”
― Rick Riordan, The Son of Neptune

“If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.”
― Issac Newton

“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.

“Those whom nature destined to make her disciples have no need of teachers. Bacon, Descartes, Newton — these tutors of the human race had no need of tutors themselves, and what guides could have led them to those places where their vast genius carried them? Ordinary teachers could only have limited their understanding by confining it to their own narrow capabilities. With the first obstacles, they learned to exert themselves and made the effort to traverse the immense space they moved through. If it is necessary to permit some men to devote themselves to the study of the sciences and the arts, that should be only for those who feel in themselves the power to walk alone in those men's footsteps and to move beyond them. It is the task of this small number of people to raise monuments to the glory of the human mind.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and Polemics

“I was thinking,' said Crusher dreamily [...] 'about LANGUAGE and how in English two negatives make a positive, but in spriteish, a double negative is still a negative. However there is NO language in which two positives make a negative ...'
'Yeah right, like THAT'S the problem,' said Xar, sarcastically. 'I hadn't thought of that!' said Crusher in gentle surprise [...]. 'You're correct, Car. "Yeah, right" IS a statement in English where two positives make a negative...”
― Cressida Cowell, Twice Magic

“C: What do you get when a giant sneezes?
Out of the way. - Marigold”
― Jean Ferris

“One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“If the other Westlanders were frost giants, he was a leviathan; if they were beasts, he was their king.”
― Jill Criswell, Beasts of the Frozen Sun

“Feuds are weeds... Once it’s grown roots, it’s harder to dig up; and it’s far easier to spread.”
― Emory R. Frie, Giant Country

“Suddenly, two 3D animated figures materialized out of thin air. One of them resembled a young, Native American woman in her 20's. The other resembled a knight in shining armour from the 1500's. Both characters stood about 30 feet tall. Just then, a booming voice resounded from the UFO:
Well, well! If it isn't the Sky Fighters, and their Houndy Crunchers cohorts! Your pathetic attempts to stop me from taking over this planet are all in vain! Now come forth and bow to your new masters; two of my strongest henchmen! MU-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!”
― Ross Eberle, Sky Fighters and Houndy Crunchers

“Let the sleeping dogs lie, but rise up! You sleeping giants.”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive

“The size of the giant in front of you will always be determined by the size of the giant within you.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Doing the difficult things again and again have built the giants, the legends, the icons and the superstars.”
― Hiral Nagda

“Dusk has dawned, I hear its call,
above the world I’ve watched it fall;
I smell blood and I smell bone,
and I smell fear coated in gold;
Grind your bread and bake their teeth,
and death will come while you’re asleep;
I will rage. I will rage.
Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum

‘Til the mountains crumble down,
and oceans become heaven’s crown;
Land sinks low, the gold runs dry,
and when these bones rain from the sky;
‘Til the giants fall to myth,
and none remains to journey with;
I will stand. I will stand.
Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum

I will stand for my homeland,
for nowhere else could bear my hand;
I will stand by friend and kin,
we share the gold under our skin;
I will stand ‘til my death comes,
and as my soul greets sky and sun,
I will sing, I will sing,
Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum”
― Emory R. Frie, Giant Country

“FEE, FI-- Magnus begins. Oh wait, I already said that, he adds.”
― Sarah Mlynowski, Spill the Beans

“According to an idea that was wide-spread among the Germans and Celts, all wisdom dwelled in the lower world, which is often cited as the source of knowledge and art. This notion goes hand in hand with another idea that maintains that death precedes life. Because death is identical to night and life is identical to day, these peoples counted time in nights rather than days. We can compare this to Scandinavian cosmology: The giant Ymir is the originator of creation. In Nordic mythology, the giants are the keepers of the science of runes, and one of them, Sutting, is the keeper of poetic knowledge. As the world's first inhabitants, they [the giants] knew all its secrets. They thus maintained many close ties with death and the otherworld with, for instance, dwarves and elves.”
― Claude Lecouteux, The Return of the Dead: Ghosts, Ancestors, and the Transparent Veil of the Pagan Mind

“Generations of neglect for this feud have come back to stab us in the back in the form of one boy. One boy who lit the match for an apocalypse threatening our very species! One boy whose nightmarish reputation has plagued a country he has no right belonging to!”
― Emory R. Frie, Giant Country

“But don’t fret, friends. You can break their bones for bread as soon as the Fiddler gives the word. I always thought that was the giants’ job, but don’t let me spoil your guilty pleasures.”
― Emory R. Frie, Giant Country

“Given the giants in my life, I’ve discovered that I need the wisdom to know when to sling a stone and when not to sling one. For sometimes not to sling a stone is the most deadly stone of all.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Only a giant could stand tall enough to bend the ear of a god.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Valley of the Damned
Ch. One:
Dark Storm Rising

’Tis said giants grapple in the Earth so deep,
To contend for souls that they might keep.”
― douglas laurent

“It is the faith of the man that determines the size of the man. Therefore, in a society that raises up paper giants as fast as they fall, we can know that (although they are small by society’s standards), there are Godly giants out there that walk on paper.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Some hours ago we had discovered a giant. Now we had discovered a man. The giant was the man, but being a man he could no longer be a giant. The man had undermined the giant.”
― George Lamming, In the Castle of My Skin

“We once stood on the shoulders of Giants in humility. We now piggyback on Dwarfs in arrogance.”
― Dean Cavanagh

“Thus had the giants come, fathered of bestial humans and mothered of monsters.”
― William Hodgenson

“Jack the Giant Slayer needs to be cunning. He needs to be able to analyse giants and detect their weakness and vulnerabilities. He must work out his giant-killing tactics. The holy grail for the giant slayers is the mind. The giants can control the body. They can get the physically best players. What they can’t get is the mentally best players, i.e. the most resilient, robust, fastest-thinking, the best leaders, the most composed, and so on. That’s because they can see the body and not the mind. What they can’t see, they are much shakier on. That’s where small teams have so much scope. Their task is to find mentally better players, more consistent, more able to work in a team, more able to cope with changing circumstances. The sky’s the limit for mental footballers versus physical footballers. It’s time for mental Moneyball, for psychological football – for Sun Tzu and Clausewitz footballers. Jack can outsmart the giants. They’re very big and very rich, but not very smart. It’s time to bring them down and take control of the golden goose. Come on guys, let’s get this revolution started. Let’s beat the odds. It’s time for our day in the sun, lifting the big trophy!”
― Jim Leigh, Slaying the Football Giants: How Small Teams Can Succeed

“I am but one climbing a ladder of millions, and those millions have seen each beneath them, and held the same rungs of knowledge one after the other. I am just number million and one, and there are a billion more.”
― Blake Sevann

“If there are three-headed giants on the other side, I'm going to be very angry with both of you.'

'If there are three-headed giants awaiting us, your anger will be the least of our concerns,' ...”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Under the stone guardians, life is rediscovered, in these suspended worlds, between the earth and the blue of the sky.”
― David Passarelli, Mountain poems: Musings on stone, forest, and snow