York Giants Defeated

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

    “New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.”
    —Djuna Barnes (1892–1982)

    “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)

    “Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!
    There is no holier spot of ground
    Than where defeated valor lies,
    By mourning beauty crowned!”
    —Henry Timrod (1828–1867)