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)
“To summarize the contentions of this paper then. Firstly, the phrase ‘the meaning of a word’ is a spurious phrase. Secondly and consequently, a re-examination is needed of phrases like the two which I discuss, ‘being a part of the meaning of’ and ‘having the same meaning.’ On these matters, dogmatists require prodding: although history indeed suggests that it may sometimes be better to let sleeping dogmatists lie.”
—J.L. (John Langshaw)
“The sense of death is most in apprehension,
And the poor beetle that we tread upon
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)