Giant Quotes

“Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.”
― Edna Ferber, Giant

“I never go to weddings. Waste of time. Person can get married a dozen times. Lots of folks do. Family like ours, know everybody in the state of Texas and around outside, why, you could spend your life going to weddings. But a funeral, that's different. You only die once.”
― Edna Ferber , Giant

“It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time.”
― Edna Ferber, Giant

“If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.”
― Edna Ferber, Giant

“What could be more exciting! As long as you're fascinated and as long as you keep on fighting the things you think are wrong, you're living. It isn't the evil people in the world who do the most harm. It's the sweet do-nothings that can destroy us.”
― Edna Ferber, Giant

“You just look upon life as an annoying interruption to ranching.”
― Edna Ferber, Giant

“Jane Austen. Anyway, I’m not”
― Edna Ferber, Giant

“Even their voices go up at the end of a declarative sentence,”
― Edna Ferber, Giant

“Whoever heard of a woman having to enter her house past a row of guns! These weren’t Indian days—pioneer scalping days.”
― Edna Ferber, Giant

“Reata,” he said two decades later,”
― Edna Ferber, Giant

“As long as you keep on fighting the things you think are wrong, you're living. It isn't the evil people in the world who do the most harm. It's the sweet do-nothings that can destroy us.”
― Edna Ferber, Giant

“Leslie reads too much,”
― Edna Ferber, Giant

“Bigger. Biggest ranch. Biggest steer. Biggest houses. Biggest hat. Biggest state. A mania for bigness. What littleness did it hide?”
― Edna Ferber, Giant