Gigantea Quotes & Sayings

The Manitou of America will creep in you, rejoice you when she shines above, and offend and sadden you when she is put down. — George Sorbane

If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- From a letter to Robert Hooke dated February 5th, 1676.
The metaphor was first recorded in 1159 by John of Salisbury and attributed to Bernard of Chartres:
Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos, gigantium humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvenimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea. — Isaac Newton

There is someone out there that will love you.They'll want you for you.Don't settle for less.Life is short and I'm tired of wasting it — Abbi Glines

The issue is complex, but like many matters in Sudan, it is not as complex as Khartoum would want the west to believe. — Dave Eggers

If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just. — Stephen R. Lawhead

He who outrages benevolence is called a ruffian: he who outrages righteousness is called a villain. I have heard of the cutting off of the villain Chow, but I have not heard of the putting of a ruler to death. — Mencius

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years. — Erin McKean

Life is an intresting journey where the beginning is known,way is a puzzle and the end is unknown — William Shakespeare

I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish. — J. R. Martinez

I realize my life here is much richer than I ever could have imagined. [Why one Canadian immigrant to Italy stays] — Ivanka Di Felice

You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow. — Oprah Winfrey

But from the start I had withheld from him any information about the giant redwoods. It seemed to me that a Long Island poodle who had made his devoirs to Sequoia sempervirens or Sequoia gigantea might be set apart from other dogs
might even be like that Galahad who saw the Grail. The concept is staggering. — John Steinbeck

I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write. — Hisham Matar

I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made up of all sorts of things that didn't really exist. — Jane Devin