5 Quotes Tagged: giants

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

The story of Eve and the serpent, and of Noah and his ark, drops to a level with the Arabian Tales, without the merit of being entertaining, and the account of men living to eight and nine hundred years becomes as fabulous as the immortality of the giants of the Mythology.

Nature intends all men and women to be mental and spiritual giants, and does not intend that any one should follow the will of another.

"Well, first of all," said the BFG, "human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist."