York Giants Defeated

Famous quotes containing the words york, giants and/or defeated:

    “Cities give us collision. ‘Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “But can see better there, and laughing there
    Pity the giants wallowing on the plain.
    ...
    Pygmies expand in cold impossible air,
    Cry fie on the giantshine, poor glory which
    Pounds breast-bone punily, screeches, and has
    Reached no Alps: or, knows no Alps to reach.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “Vanquished in life, his death
    By beauty made amends:
    The passing of his breath
    Won his defeated ends.”
    —Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867–1902)