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  • The Giants are looking for a trade but I don't think Atlanta wants to depart with a quality player. -- Ron Fairly
  • Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills. -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays. -- Ernie Harwell
  • The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.' -- Alvin Dark
  • When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. -- Winston Churchill
  • If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton
  • The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park. -- Willie Stargell
  • Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle. -- Freya Stark
  • The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies. -- Lester B. Pearson
  • All ballplayers want to wind up their careers with the Cubs, Giants or Yankees. They just can't help it. -- Dizzy Dean
  • I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants -- Pat Sajak
  • I'm more concerned about members of Congress being drug-free than I am about members of the Yankees or Giants. -- Pat Sajak
  • I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants. -- Giulio Andreotti
  • Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living. -- Omar N. Bradley
  • It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. -- Honore de Balzac
  • 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
  • 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
  • I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them. -- Rod Taylor
  • In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing -- Willie Mays
  • People forget how outcast 'They Might Be Giants' can be. They have a reputation for writing really deft, funny, clever melodies, and they also make a lot of music for kids, which is terrific, but when you see them in concert, they can rock the house. -- John Hodgman
  • We hated the Giants. We just hated the uniform. -- Carl Furillo
  • If I was traded to the Giants, I'd quit baseball -- Rocky Colavito
  • Yankee Stadium is a mistake: Not mine - the Giants'. -- Jacob Ruppert
  • Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance. -- Philip Massinger
  • Focus on giants - you stumble. Focus on God - Giants tumble. -- Max Lucado
  • Giants. We must face them. Yet we need not face them alone. -- Max Lucado
  • Y'all should come to Cowboys Stadium and watch us beat the Giants' asses. -- Jerry Jones
  • As many Giants fans know, we're one of the few teams without cheerleaders. -- Steve Tisch
  • Giants versus Jets Super Bowl. I'm telling you, that's all I want to see. -- Jesse McCartney
  • I started rockin' the BowTie when I was a rookie with the New York Giants. -- Dhani Jones
  • There is someone warming up in the Giants' bullpen, but he's obscured by his number. -- Jerry Coleman
  • Laistrygonians. Cannibals. Northern Giants. Sasquatch legend. Yep, yep. They are not birds. Not birds of North America. -- Rick Riordan
  • I'm a Giants fan through and through. I am crazy about Eli Manning. I'm all about the Giants. -- Jesse McCartney
  • He jumped at the Giants face, clambered up his lip and nose, and began to dig in the Giant's eye. -- Orson Scott Card
  • I am absolutely a Giants fan and I'm a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time. -- Aisha Tyler
  • I'm worried about doing my best, playing to my potential, helping out my teammates, and trying to win games for the Giants. -- Eli Manning
  • 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
  • The Dodgers. My favorite hockey team is the Kings. I like the Clippers in basketball. And I like USC college. Football, the Giants. -- Alyssa Milano
  • 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
  • Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness. -- Malcolm Gladwell
  • My dad is quite possibly the biggest Giants fan in the world. I believe he wore a Phil Simms jersey to my high school and college graduations. -- Bobby Moynihan
  • The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great. -- Ned Colletti
  • 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
  • When I was playing junior football when I was a kid, we were the Geneva Giants, so it was kind of embedded in me to be a Giants fan. -- Travie McCoy
  • I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants. -- Greg Egan
  • 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
  • Any time there's a coaching change, that's something that's pretty significant, and especially for the New York Giants, who have had the same coach for a long period of time. But we embrace it. -- Victor Cruz
  • And the One will take the Sword of the Western Sun and triumph over the enemy with boldness and insight. The arm of the One is steady and heads will roll. Snow Giants will battle -- Barbara T. Cerny
  • Baseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the Giants and Dodgers from New York to California brought that pressure in abundance. -- Ford Frick
  • On winter Sundays when I was a child, we waited for my father to return from his tennis game with bagels and sturgeon and for my mother to object when the 1 P.M. Giants game began. -- Jane Leavy
  • On a personal side, I found Bo Burlingham's Small Giants to be a great window into how business can be an extension of social change and the critical role the entrepreneur plays in creating progress in society. -- Lewis Schiff
  • 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
  • A financial shift happened with 'Facing the Giants' and 'Fireproof,' where movies that were faith-based films were profitable. And people in Hollywood - like people in downtown U.S.A. - are out to make money. -- John Schneider
  • I have to hold a meeting with the rising generation every evening, and that takes time. Henry can say, 'Twinkle, twinkle,' all himself, and Edward can repeat it after his father! Giants of genius! Paragons of erudition! -- Adoniram Judson
  • 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
  • In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing. -- Willie Mays
  • What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants. -- Isaac Newton
  • In fact the Gods were as puzzled by all this as the wizards were, but they were powerless to do anything and in any case were engaged in an eons-old battle with the Ice Giants, who had refused to return the lawnmower. -- Terry Pratchett
  • Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. Ive never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg. -- Tom Seaver
  • Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at once and looked as grace as a turnip by the time Reepicheep discovered where the noise came from. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Hy gododin catann hue Hud a lledrith mal wyddan Gaunce ae bellawn wen cabri Varigal don Fincayra Dravia, dravia Fincayra (Talking trees and walking stones, Giants aare the island's bones. While this land our dance still knows, Varigal crowns Fincayra. Live long, live long Fincayra. -- T.A. Barron
  • I worked the Giants win over the Texans earlier this season. The Giants ran the heck out of the ball. Eli Manning rolled out away from Watt just about every time and changed the release point on his passes. The Cowboys have a road map. -- Dan Fouts
  • 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
  • The Giants have won. They have won the World Series for the third time in five years. And Madison Bumgarner has firmly etched his name on the all-time World Series record books as one of the greatest World Series pitchers the game has ever seen. -- Jon Miller
  • I feel like I was hit by all of geek culture at once while I was growing up in the '70s and '80s. Saturday morning cartoons like 'Star Blazers' and 'Robotech.' Live action Japanese shows like 'Ultraman' and 'The Space Giants.' -- Ernest Cline
  • 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
  • The devil knows that if the elders of Israel should ever wake up, they could step forth and help preserve freedom and extend the gospel. Therefore the devil has concentrated, and to a large extent successfully, in neutralizing much of the priesthood. He has reduced them to Sleeping Giants. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. -- Neil Armstrong
  • A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. -- Robert Burton
  • The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- Omar N. Bradley
  • I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. -- Isoroku Yamamoto
  • Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
  • 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
  • Some missionaries are giants in the Spirit and pygmies in skills in the Spirit. Work hard to develop a balance. Your leaders, and you, should teach the skills to each other. -- Richard G. Scott
  • To me, if you're going to talk about funk, you have to go back to George Clinton and Bernie Worrell. Those guys are the giants. I've played with Bernie, and it was unreal. He's the master. -- Les Claypool
  • 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
  • Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the experience of fear, anxiety and even despair has increased in equal proportion. Indeed, the paradox is that the powerful giants feel as powerless as a new-born babe. -- Henri Nouwen
  • The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly. -- Malcolm Gladwell
  • 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
  • For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones. -- Diane Ackerman
  • Every time the good giants try to cut back on salt, sugar, fat calories, inevitably Wall Street raises its hand and is looking at the sales figures and the revenue and saying, 'Thou shalt not result in any loss of profit.' There's huge continuing pressure on the food companies. -- Michael Moss
  • The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan. -- Anne Lamott
  • Economically, many folks don't feel they can afford organic. While this may be true in some cases, I think more often than not it's a question of priority. I feel it's one of the most important areas of concern ecologically, because the petrochemical giants - DuPont, Monsanto - make huge money by poisoning us. -- Woody Harrelson
  • By the time I left college, I had won every award you could win - I was Mr. Man! Then I got drafted by the Giants, and you step in that locker room, and you feel inferior in every way. You just have to stick around long enough to give yourself the opportunity to build your confidence. -- Michael Strahan
  • All In' is like the Giants motto, so I kind of took that, and I kind of used New York as the backdrop - how diehard New Yorkers are for their team. Me being a New Yorker, I just had to show my love for the city as well as my love for the New York Giants. -- Travie McCoy
  • It's one thing if you live in London and you're rooting for Chelsea or you're in New York and you love the Giants or Jets and no matter who's on the team you're into it. It's different in tennis; you're sort of your own guy, so you have to reach out and grab a person in a different way. -- John McEnroe
  • Humility is the mother of giants. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • When giants fought, ants were crushed. -- Rachel Caine
  • Through you, we feel as giants, once again. -- Ronald Reagan
  • With books we stand on the shoulders of giants. -- John Locke
  • Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets. -- Mark Buchanan
  • No rain but thunder, and the sound of giants. -- Mike Mignola
  • The work for giants...to serve well the guns! -- Walt Whitman
  • Make no more giants, God!But elevate the race at once! -- Robert Browning
  • Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone. -- Tom Robbins
  • When a man makes alliance with the Almighty, giants look like grasshoppers. -- Vance Havner
  • Dwarfs can make revolutions easier than giants, because theirs will be unexpected! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • Technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age. -- Charles Duhigg
  • I can see so far because I stood on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton
  • A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants -- Robert Anton Wilson
  • Fighting giants was one thing. Bacchus making into a game was something else. -- Rick Riordan
  • Overhead, the stars were wheeling and infinite, a complicated mobile made by giants. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • Life is never more fun than when you're the underdog competing against the giants. -- Ross Perot
  • I want to go to my grave a free man. Surviving against giants-that's victory. -- Todd McFarlane
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  • We are in the hands of those gods, those monsters, those giants: our thoughts. -- Victor Hugo
  • You can't really call yourselves giant-killers any more, as you kill giants so often. -- Bryon Butler
  • Terminus sniffed. "I guard borders. I don't kill giants. It's not in my job description. -- Rick Riordan
  • Dwarfs have also the right to despise the giants, because giants too can be defeated! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
  • All God's giants have been weak men and women who have gotten hold of God's faithfulness. -- Hudson Taylor
  • Basketball. I love it. I can't believe these giants move like kids. They are so flexible. -- Jurgen Klopp
  • I think sometimes you can study guys and build them into giants that they are not. -- Ryan Hall
  • The rules when the giants play are the same as when the pygmies enter the market. -- William O. Douglas
  • Me is the only one what won't be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants -- Roald Dahl
  • Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size. -- W. H. Auden
  • In a hyper-capitalist environment dominated by media giants, the means available to independent journalism have narrowed considerably. -- Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • As I go about my work as Premier, I know I stand on the shoulders of giants. -- Anna Bligh
  • God can be seen Even by the poorest fool, But not by the self-styled, God-arguing Intellectual giants. -- Sri Chinmoy
  • We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch. -- Robert Anton Wilson
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