Sleeping Giant

Sleeping Giant may refer to:

In geology:

  • Sleeping Giant (Connecticut), a traprock mountain ridge in Hamden, Connecticut, U.S.
  • Sleeping Giant (Kauai), a mountain ridge on the island of Kauai near Kapaa, Hawaii, U.S.
  • Sleeping Giant (Ontario), a formation of mesas on Sibley Peninsula, Ontario, Canada
  • The Sleeping Giant (Abercraf), local name for hill called Cribarth, Powys, Wales
  • The Sleeping Giant mountain and ridge in Montana in the U.S., part of the Sleeping Giant Wilderness Study Area

In other uses:

  • Sleeping Giant (band), a Christian metal band featuring members of xDEATHSTARx
  • "Sleeping Giant", a song by progressive metal band Mastodon from Blood Mountain
  • Sleeping Giant, a mixtape by Tajai
  • "The Sleeping Giant", an episode of the animated television series The Care Bears

Famous quotes containing the words sleeping giant, sleeping and/or giant:

    “I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.”
    —Larry Forrester, U.S. screenwriter, Hideo Oguni, and Ryuzo Kikushima. Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda, Kinji Fukasaku. Admiral Yamamoto (Soh Yamamura)

    “We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness—the eighth beatitude.”
    —Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

    “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)