Quotes and Sayings About Eagles
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I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.
-- Aaron TippinSource : Song: Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly
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All Birds find shelter during a rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!!
-- Abdul Kalam -
September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
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"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."
-- Abraham Cowley -
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Shoot eagles on the Jack Nicklaus course, Porsche with the triple exhaust, Seats soft like a midget's cough...
-- Action Bronson -
So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.
-- Aeschylus -
The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.
-- Aesop -
The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions.
-- Alan Cohen -
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And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
-- Alexander Pope -
Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
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Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.
-- Alexander Pope -
The future does not belong to those who attack our Embassies and Consulates and kill our Ambassadors. The Angel of Death in the form of an American Bald Eagle will visit you and wreak havoc and destruction upon your existence
-- Allen WestSource : Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “"An Honorable profession": a tribute to Robert F. Kennedy”
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Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Like Lenin Comrade Stalin is a leader of a higher type. He is a mountain eagle, without fear in the fight, who boldly leads the bolshevik party on unexplored roads toward the total victory of Communism.
-- Anastas MikoyanSource : Statement of 13 March 1939, as quoted in "Facts on Communism" by the United States Congress, (p. 157), 1960.
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What would the Russian Bear and the American Eagle do if they discovered our paradise? Our secrecy is our shield!
-- Andrew Ryan -
The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.
-- Anthony de Mello -
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There's no question that the galleries still like to see birdies and eagles. If you take them all away, it takes some of the dramatics, the excitement of a golf tournament and we [people] don't want to do that.
-- Arnold Palmer -
Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
I've always thought the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The right wing would see to it that economic interests had their legitimate concerns addressed. The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it's no longer an eagle and it's going to crash.
-- Bill Moyers -
We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.
-- Bill Vaughan -
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Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in the world they share, can they reach new and brighter horizons.
-- Bill Vaughan -
What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.
-- Brennan Manning -
The 'Crue' is not the hardest band to cover. There are no harmonies like the Eagles.
-- Brian Miller -
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If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.
-- Brian Tracy -
Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.
-- Brian Tracy -
If you want to fly with the eagles you can't hang out with the crows.
-- Brock Lesnar -
Fly, on your way, like an eagle / Fly as high as the Sun.
-- Bruce DickinsonSource : "Pass notes, No 3,169: Bruce Dickinson", www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2012.
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
-- Carl Sandburg -
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar...
-- Carl Sandburg