Famous quotes containing the words giant and/or man:
“Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.”
—Oswald Spengler (1880–1936)
“Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)