Famous quotes containing the words giant and/or standing:
“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 (18801936)
“Still bent to make some port he knows not where,
Still standing for some false impossible shore.”
—Matthew Arnold (18221888)
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