Eagles Quotes:

I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.

- Aaron Tippin

source: Song: Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly

topic: Stars, Eagles, Grace

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

topic: Attitude, Rain, Eagles, Above The Clouds

"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

topic: Art, Garden, Eagles

Shoot eagles on the Jack Nicklaus course, Porsche with the triple exhaust, Seats soft like a midget's cough...

- Action Bronson

topic: Rap, Eagles, Hip Hop, Porsche

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

topic: Fashion, Eagles, Hands, Smitten

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

topic: Mean, Eagles, Arrows

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

topic: Dream, Light, Eagles

And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Eagles, Wings, Gold, Eagles Wings

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.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Moving, Clouds, Eagles

Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Art, Eagles, Rome

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 West

source: Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “"An Honorable profession": a tribute to Robert F. Kennedy”

topic: Angel, Eagles, Doe, Havoc, Bald Eagle

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

topic: Horse, Animal, Eagles, Zoology

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 Mikoyan

source: Statement of 13 March 1939, as quoted in "Facts on Communism" by the United States Congress, (p. 157), 1960.

topic: Party, Fighting, Eagles, Bolsheviks

What would the Russian Bear and the American Eagle do if they discovered our paradise? Our secrecy is our shield!

- Andrew Ryan

topic: Eagles, Paradise, Shields

The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

- Anthony de Mello

topic: Selfish, Butterfly, Eagles

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

topic: Golf, Eagles, People, Golf Tournaments

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Men, Eagles, Wings, Eagles Wings

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

topic: Eagles, Wings, Two, Ordinary People, American Eagle

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

topic: Eagles, Pay, England

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Eagles, Dams, May, Beavers

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

topic: Sight, Dragons, Eagles

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

topic: Selfish, Butterfly, Eagles, Selfish Person, Ability To See

The 'Crue' is not the hardest band to cover. There are no harmonies like the Eagles.

- Brian Miller

topic: Eagles, Band, Harmony

If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Eagles, Turkeys

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

topic: Motivational, Wise, Eagles, Choices You Make, Associates

If you want to fly with the eagles you can't hang out with the crows.

- Brock Lesnar

topic: Eagles, Crow, Want

Fly, on your way, like an eagle / Fly as high as the Sun.

- Bruce Dickinson

source: "Pass notes, No 3,169: Bruce Dickinson", www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2012.

topic: Eagles, Way, Sun

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

topic: Eagles, Christian Inspirational, Literature, Hippo, Hippopotamus

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar...

- Carl Sandburg

topic: Eagles, Want, Soar

God created us with an overwhelming desire to soar. Our desire to develop and use every ounce of potential He's placed in us is not egotistical. He designed us to be tremendously productive and "to mount up with wings like eagles," realistically dreaming of what He can do with our potential.

- Carol Kent

source: Carol Kent (1990). “Secret Longings of the Heart: Overcoming Deep Disappointment and Unfulfilled Expectations”

topic: Christian, Dream, Eagles, Overwhelming Desire

Elinor Lipman tweets like a nightingale with an eagle eye.

- Cathleen Schine

topic: Eye, Eagles, Tweet, Eagle Eye

Across the San Joaquin valley, across California, across the entire nation, wherever there are injustices against men and women and children who work in the fields - there you will see our flags - with the black eagle with the white and red background, flying. Our movement is spreading like flames across a dry plain.

- Cesar Chavez

topic: Children, Men, Eagles

A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.

- Chanakya

topic: Greatness, Men, Eagles, Tall Buildings

I'm not going to mortgage the Eagles' future for Marcus Mariota.

- Chip Kelly

topic: Eagles, Mortgage

I'd rather have my teeth drilled than listen to that awful song, 'Fly, Eagles Fly.'

- Chris Christie

topic: Song, Eagles, Awful

The chimpanzees in the zoos do it, Some courageous kangaroos do it Let's do it, let's fall in love. I'm sure giraffes on the sly do it, Even eagles as they fly do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.

- Cole Porter

topic: Falling In Love, Zoos, Eagles, Giraffe, Kangaroos

The wretch that fears to drown, will break through flames; Or, in his dread of flames, will plunge in waves. When eagles are in view, the screaming doves Will cower beneath the feet of man for safety.

- Colley Cibber

topic: Fear, Men, Eagles

The eagles ruled the air as the tribes ruled the land.

- Conn Iggulden

source: Conn Iggulden (2013). “Conqueror: The Complete 5-Book Collection”, p.39, HarperCollins UK

topic: Air, Eagles, Land

My name ain't Steve Miller, but I fly like an Eagle.

- Coolio

source: Song: Get Up Get Down, Album: Gangsta's Paradise, 1995

topic: Eagles, Names, Musical

Leaders take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

- D. Wayne Calloway

topic: Eagles, Leader, Teach

Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance.

- David Burge

topic: School, Eagles, Political, Truckers, Grad School

What happened to your foot?" "I had a little disagreement with an eagle --stupid birds, eagles. He couldn't tell the difference between a hawk and a pigeon. I had to educate him. He bit me while I was tearing out a sizable number of his wing feathers." "Uncle," Polgara said reproachfully. "He started it.

- David Eddings

topic: Uncles, Stupid, Eagles

Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor even eagle flew- And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

- Dizzy Gillespie

topic: Blue, Eagles, Hands

I'm certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I'm quite proud of.

- Don Henley

topic: Eagles, Proud

The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.

- Don Henley

topic: Eagles, Retrospect, Realizing

The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.

- Don Henley

topic: Eagles, Critics

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Eagles, Seagull, Hairdos, Eagles Wings, Good Hair

I'll always be a Golden Eagle

- Dwyane Wade

topic: Eagles, Golden

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

- E. F. Schumacher

topic: Attitude, Greatness, Eagles, My Attitude, Change Your Attitude

American Eagle can be a selling point for other young, cutting-edge companies to come to Pittsburgh

- Ed Rendell

topic: Cutting, Eagles, Pittsburgh, American Eagle

You can't soar like an eagle and crap like a canary.

- Ed Sabol

source: "Ed Sabol, Founder Of NFL Films, Dies At 98" by Sam Sanders, knkx.org. February 9, 2015.

topic: Eagles, Canaries, Soar

One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.

- Edith Roosevelt

topic: Boys, Eagles, Sparrows

That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.

- Edmund Waller

topic: Fate, Eagles, Made

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

- Elizabeth Bowen

topic: Fate, Destiny, Eagles, Life Fate, Fate And Destiny

The little and the great are joined in one By God's great force. The wondrous golden sun Is linked unto the glow-worm's tiny spark; The eagle soars to heaven in his flight; And in those realms of space, all bathed in light, Soar none except the eagle and the lark.

- Emma Lazarus

source: Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.41, Broadview Press

topic: Space, Light, Eagles, Glow Worms

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.

- Ernest Cline

topic: Python, Eagles, Iron

Yours will be the wings of an eagle's flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time to be holy - in meditation, in prayer, and especially in the use of the Bible.

- F.B. Meyer

topic: Prayer, Eagles, Wings

The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.

- Finley Peter Dunne

topic: Eagles, People, Insulting

An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process.

- Frank Bruno

topic: Congratulations, Eagles, Letters, Eagle Scout

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

source: The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)

topic: Selfish, Men, Eagles, American Eagle, Selfish Men

Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.

- Frederick Reines

topic: Leadership, Boys, Eagles, Leadership Roles, Boy Scout

Did you ever know that you're my hero, you're everything I wish I could be. I could fly higher than an eagle with you as the wind beneath my wings.

- Gary Morris

topic: Friendship, Hero, Eagles

Days, when the ball of our vision Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun; When the graps on the bow was decision, And arrow and hand and eye were one; When the Pleasures, like waves to a swimmer, Came heaving for rapture ahead! - Invoke them, they dwindle, they glimmer As lights over mounds of the dead.

- George Meredith

topic: Eye, Light, Eagles

I didn't live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles.

- George Thorogood

topic: Eagles, World, Disco

I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.

- Gerald R. Ford

topic: Golf, Eagles, Games, Golf Ball, Elk

Just as eagles soar through the vast expanse of the sky without meeting any obstructions, needing only minimal effort to maintain their flight, so advanced meditators concentrating on emptiness can meditate on emptiness for a long time with little effort. Their minds soar through space-like emptiness, undistracted by any other phenomenon. When we meditate on emptiness we should try to emulate these meditators.

- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

topic: Eagles, Sky, Space, Emulate, Minimal Effort

I am eagle, I am eagle!

- Gherman Titov

topic: Moon, Eagles, Star Gazing

The eagle that soars in the upper air does not worry itself how it is to cross rivers.

- Gladys Aylward

topic: Air, Eagles, Rivers

Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.

- Glenn Frey

topic: Thinking, Eagles, California

If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money.

- Glenn Frey

topic: Thinking, Eagles, Together

The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.

- Glenn Frey

topic: Drinking, Eagles, Years

Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.

- Glenn Frey

topic: Eagles, Forever, Reunion, Forever Young

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Ostriches, Eagles, Europe, American Eagle

An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold, whether it consists of guineas, sovereigns or eagles.

- Hans F. Sennholz

topic: Eagles, Gold, Guinea

Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The music causes me to dream of fabulous empires, filled with fabulous sins.

- Hector Berlioz

topic: Music, Dream, Eagles, Berlioz, Hector

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

- Helen Keller

topic: Skills, Arrows, Eagles

The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Fall, Night, Eagles

You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Opportunity, Eagles, Sun, Canaries

Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen.

- Henry Winter

topic: Soccer, Football, Eagles, Hyphens

Every house was festooned with flowers and with lanterns. On the national day, the whole country went wild with joy, But on that very day, I was placed in chains and transferred: The wind remains contrary to the flight of the eagle.

- Ho Chi Minh

topic: Country, Flower, Eagles

Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.

- Horace

topic: Eagles, Fierce, Dove

My jaw dropped open. Holy crows...There's a couple of eagles mixed in there, Luke commented.And a few hawks, Aiden added.I rolled my eyes. Okay. Holy birds of prey! Is that better?Much, Aiden murmured.

- J. Lynn

topic: Couple, Eye, Eagles, Luke, Birds Of Prey

You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in hid eyrie at night!

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Night, Eagles, Rude

I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air, I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

topic: Eagles, Numbers, Air

For the Indian,dance is a personal form of prayer. When the Eagle Dancer puts on his costume,when he begins to dance to the music,he doesn't simply perform it; he actually becomes the eagle itself. The dancer is virtually inseparable from the dance.

- Jamake Highwater

topic: Prayer, Eagles, Dancer

At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.

- James D. Watson

topic: Distance, Lunch, Eagles, Biochemistry

Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family.

- James L. Jones

topic: Marine, Eagles, Anchors, My Marine, Marine Corps

If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.

- Jamie Foxx

source: "Jamie Foxx "Django Unchained" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

topic: Animal, Eagles, Would Be

That kind of tenderness couldn't be permitted to last. You only got a taste, enough to know what perfection meant, and then you paid for it the rest of your life. Like the guy chained to a rock, who stole fire. The gods made an eagle eat his liver for all eternity. You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.

- Janet Fitch

topic: Fire, Rocks, Eagles

I was nervous starting off today. I was nervous because I felt like I was going to play good and shoot a good round. I was trying to calm myself down. This race is a long race. The eagle at two was helped, but I was trying not to be too eager.

- Jay Haas

topic: Two, Race, Eagles

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad...

- Jean Rhys

topic: Wings, Eagles, Broken, Lioness

Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory, they are the most susceptible to being discouraged.

- Jim Elliot

topic: Eagles, Bird, Territory

You cannot soar with the eagles as long as you hang out with the turkeys.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Motivational, Eagles, Turkeys

The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.

- Joey Ramone

source: "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

topic: Eagles, Answers, Captains

The eagle may soar, but the weasel never gets sucked into a jet engine.

- John Benfield

topic: Eagles, May, Weasels, Jet Engines

For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful green solitude.

- John Clare

source: John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.982, Delphi Classics

topic: Beautiful, Nature, Eagles

It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is happening, that we cannot get on top of what is happening, that we are stuck in the middle of it, in medias res, inter-esse, amazing and bewildered. We cannot soar over what is happening with philosophy's eagle-wings. What's happening has clipped our wings.

- John D. Caputo

topic: Philosophy, Eagles, Wings, Stuck In The Middle, Eagles Wings

I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.

- John Denver

topic: Men, Eagles, Politics

Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

- John Dryden

topic: Tired, Eagles, Wings, Eagles Wings, Wrens

None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-ey'd to see Another's faults, and his deformity.

- John Dryden

source: John Dryden (1760). “The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq;: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations. Now First Collected and Published Together in Four Volumes. With Explanatory Notes and Observations. Also an Account of His Life and Writings ...”, p.379

topic: Eagles, Imperfection, Secret, Deformity

My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.

- John Keats

topic: Death, Sleep, Eagles, Pinnacle

The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

- John Milton

topic: Eagles, Two, Bird, Two Birds

I think the Jets came in with a legitimate offer. At that point, I hadn't had one from the Eagles. I had to think, 'I've really got to work up here [in New York]? Do you really want to deal with that on a weekly basis?

- Jon Runyan

topic: New York, Thinking, Eagles

The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Adversity, Eagles, Fearless, Have No Fear

The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.

- June Callwood

source: June Callwood (1981). “Portrait of Canada”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

topic: Humorous, Fall, Eagles, Beavers, Testicles

The eagle had two natural enemies: storms and serpents. He embraced the storm, waiting on the rock for the right thermal current and then using that to carry him higher. While other birds were taking cover, the eagle was soaring. An eagle would never fight against the storms of life.

- Karen Kingsbury

topic: Fighting, Rocks, Eagles, Storms Of Life, Thermal

Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight

- Kathryn Lasky

topic: Twilight, Eagles, Bird, Hummingbirds

Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him

- Kenneth Wapnick

topic: Eagles, Wings, Empowerment

My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.

- Kerry King

topic: Dragons, Eagles, Firsts, Slayer

Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.

- Knute Rockne

topic: Athlete, Eagles, Leader

THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope.

- Laird Barron

topic: Epic, Eagles, Scope

Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magesterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my tent. It was a scene of peerless tranquility, tossed out in Nautre's devil-may-care way, which says: Just open your eyes, my friend, and I'll astonish you every minute of your life.

- Lawrence Millman

source: Lawrence Millman, Paul Theroux (2000). “Last Places: A Journey in the North”, p.147, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Eye, Eagles, Sea

I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly? They're a protected species, too.

- Lee Trevino

topic: Believe, Eagles, Lasts

You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.

- Link Wray

topic: Eagles, Flying, Mountain

Baby eagles can never soar under their family's wing.

- Liu Yang

topic: Baby, Eagles, Wings

I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.

- Lloyd Bentsen

topic: Government, Eagles, Careers, Scouting, Handy

I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension is produced by the skillful use of the force of the wind, and the steering, in any direction, is the result of skillful manoeuvres; so that by a moderate wind a man can, with an aeroplane, un- provided with any motor whatever, rise up into the air and direct himself at will, even against the wind itself.

- Louis Pierre Mouillard

topic: Men, Air, Eagles, Ascension, Flapping

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

- Mark Twain

topic: War, Eagles, Land, Talons, American Imperialism

Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

source: Martin Farquhar Tupper (1853). “Proverbial Philosophy by Martin F. Tupper”, p.142

topic: Wings, Eagles, Imagination

He's just jealous. You know what they say. Empty tin cans make the most noise, and he's an empty tin can. This game is between the Bears and the Eagles, not Ditka and Ryan. We all know who would win that one. Ditka, hands down.

- Mike Ditka

topic: Jealous, Winning, Eagles, Tin Cans

Don't look down, it's an impossible view; Fly like an eagle whatever you do

- Mos Def

source: "Song: Dont Look Down". 2010.

topic: Views, Eagles, Looks

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

- Nadine Gordimer

topic: Zoos, Eagles, Isolation

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

- Neil Armstrong

topic: Eagles, Houston, Quiet

The Eagle has landed.

- Neil Armstrong

topic: Eagles

I've got my old favorites like The Eagles and Bon Jovi.

- Niall Horan

topic: Eagles, Bon Jovi

I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior. But we are after all a mere part of Creation. And we must consider to understand where we are. And we stand somewhere between the mountain and the Ant. Somewhere and only there as part and parcel of the Creation.

- Oren Lyons

source: "Animal Grace: Can Humans Rise to the Call?" by Sheila Shayon, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 3, 2009.

topic: Native American, Eagles, Mountain, Delegation, Great Native American

I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior.

- Oren Lyons

topic: Eagles, Four, Forget

When day begins to break I count my blessings, good and bad, Being wakeful for your sake, Remembering the covenant we've always had, What eagle look your face still shows, While up from my heart's root So great a sweetness flows I shake from head to foot.

- P. C. Cast

topic: Heart, Blessing, Eagles

You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.

- Patricia Briggs

topic: Freedom, Eagles, Long

Bogotá seemed a cruel towering place, like an eagles' nest now inhabited by vultures and their dying prey.

- Paul Theroux

topic: Eagles, Dying, Nests

I know that there are some people who are perpetually negative. I sincerely believe that if you want to fly with the eagles you cannot afford to walk with the turkeys. I will walk away from those people when they start to attack the vision.

- Phil Pringle

topic: Believe, Eagles, Turkeys

It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high.

- Pindar

source: Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

topic: God, Men, Eagles

Do not underestimate the human being, who sometimes appears so simple. Even with sight as sharp as an eagle, a mind as sharp as a razor, senses more powerful than gods, hearing that can catch the music and the lamentations of life, your knowledge of humanity will never be total.

- Pramoedya Ananta Toer

source: Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1991). “This Earth of Mankind”, William Morrow

topic: Powerful, Simple, Eagles, Lamentation

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

- Ralph Ellison

topic: Men, Purple, Eagles, Vulture

A powerful combination to ensure success is having the vision of an eagle and the heart of a lion.

- Robert G. Allen

topic: Powerful, Heart, Eagles, Heart Of A Lion

A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

source: Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.108, Library of Alexandria

topic: Atheist, Eagles, Wings, Parting, Freethinker

...How sublime Upon a time-blanch’d cliff to muse, and, while The eagle glories in a sea of air, To mingle with the scene around!—Survey The sun-warm heaven...

- Robert Montgomery

source: Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.142

topic: Nature, Air, Eagles

The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.

- Seth Grahame-Smith

topic: Men, Eagles, Giving, Middle Finger, Talons

The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.

- Shane Claiborne

source: Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.197, Harper Collins

topic: Christian, Stars, Eagles, American Flag, Lamb Of God

We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.

- Shane Claiborne

topic: Rome, Eagles, Faithful

There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.

- Shawn Colvin

topic: Moving, Eagles, Play

American Eagle clothing is stylish, flattering and all about embracing your individuality.

- Shay Mitchell

topic: Eagles, Individuality, Stylish, American Eagle

I'm a longtime fan of American Eagle, so when they approached me about joining their 'Live Your Life' campaign, it already felt like an organic fit.

- Shay Mitchell

topic: Eagles, Live Your Life, Fans, American Eagle

The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.

- Sidney Sheldon

topic: Thinking, Eagles, Wings

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

- Sitting Bull

source: "I have spoken; American history through the voices of the Indians". Book by Virginia Armstrong, Chicago, Sage Books, 1971.

topic: Heart, Men, Eagles, Indian, Indian Wisdom

Swift blazing flag of the regiment,Eagle with crest of red and gold,These men were born to drill and die.Point for them the virtue of slaughter,Make plain to them the excellence of killingAnd a field where a thousand corpses lie.

- Stephen Crane

topic: Lying, Men, Eagles, Blazing

If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll

- Steven Adler

topic: Eagles, Rock And Roll, Rocks

Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.

- Suzanne Curchod

topic: Ambition, Eagles, Rocks

Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.

- T. D. Jakes

topic: Eagles, Bird, Divine

If you want to fly with eagles, stop swimming with ducks.

- T. Harv Eker

topic: Swimming, Ducks, Eagles

We commute to computers; Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors. We survivalists, turned to consumers...

- Talib Kweli

topic: Eagles, Hip Hop, Rumor

While Bradshaw applauded McNabb for playing hurt, he offered this dose of reality for the Eagles If he doesn't stay healthy, it's over, ... What are you going to do You roll the dice.

- Terry Bradshaw

topic: Hurt, Reality, Eagles, Dose Of Reality

We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams, light and heat. Election is a sun, the eyes of eagles cannot see it, yet we may find it in the heat of vocation, in the light of illumination, in the beams of good works.

- Thomas Adams

topic: Eye, Eagles, Illumination

Prayer flies where the eagle never flew.

- Thomas Guthrie

source: Thomas Guthrie (1874). “The Gospel in Ezekiel: A Series of Discourses”, p.463

topic: Prayer, Eagles, Flew

Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell full. To sea, to sea!

- Thomas Lovell Beddoes

source: Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Thomas Forbes Kelsall, Charles Dacres Bevan (1851). “The Poems, Posthumous and Collected: Death's jest-book. The brides' tragedy”, p.11

topic: Adventure, Swings, Eagles, Antelopes, Alpine

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.

- Tobias Smollett

source: Tobias Smollett (1806). “Life of Smollett, by R. Anderson. Roderick Random”, p.163

topic: Eye, Heart, Eagles, Indian Independence Day, Eagle Eye

At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.

- Vance Havner

topic: Christian, America, Eagles, Vulture

I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.

- Vanessa Mae

topic: Eagles, Thai

When the Eagle landed on the moon, I was speechless—overwhelmed, like most of the world. Couldn't say a word. I think all I said was, 'Wow! Jeez!' Not exactly immortal. Well, I was nothing if not human.

- Walter Cronkite

topic: Thinking, Moon, Eagles

Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame.

- Waylon Jennings

source: Song: The Eagle, Album: The Eagle, 1990

topic: Mean, Eagles, Rumor

I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you.

- Wes Anderson

topic: Eagles, Play, Guy, Plane Crashes, Eagle Scout

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

- William Blake

topic: Life, Time, Eagles

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

- William Blake

topic: Wisdom, Eagles, Pits

Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they.

- William Cowper

topic: Eagles, Flew, Invincible

The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Eagles, World, Wrens

All furnished, all in arms; All plum'd like estridges that with the wind Bated like eagles having lately bathed; Glittering in golden coats like images; As full of spirit as the month of May And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer; Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Eagles, Wind, Bulls, May Day, Spring May

Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word.

- William Tyndale

topic: Children, Father, Eagles

The Eagle, he was lord above

- William Wordsworth

topic: Eagles, Lord

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Life And Love, Humorous, Eagles, Parrots, War Victory

We gotta be free - The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women

- Yip Harburg

topic: Women, Eagles, Amelia

As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House.

- Zakk Wylde

topic: Eagles, House, Heavy

We need a good strong opposition and I don't know whether it's any coincidence that we need Angela Eagle in Labour and we need Theresa May to lead the Conservative party, both of whom of course are women.

- Anna Soubry

source: Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

topic: Strong, Party, Eagles, Theresa, Conservative Party

The Justice Department ruled that Native American tribes are allowed to grow and sell ***** on reservations. This decision was hailed as a victory by Native American leader Giggling Eagle.

- Conan O'Brien

topic: Native American, Marijuana, Eagles

It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.

- Jane Swisshelm

topic: Sight, Eagles, Sheets, American Eagle

High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit — reptiles and eagles.

- Jean le Rond d'Alembert

topic: Animal, Eagles, Two

There are people like me who are not there yet, who are still the eagle flying high right now, still experiencing more in the world and growing as a result of that - and that is my journey.

- Karan Bajaj

topic: Journey, Flying High, Eagles

The sharp knife of dawn glitters in my hand but how bare is everything-tall tall tree infinite air, the unrelaxing tension of the world and only hope, hope only, the kind eagle soars and wheels in flight.

- Martin Carter

topic: Hope, Eagles, Hands, Tall Trees, Sharp Knives

The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad.

- Mobutu Sese Seko

topic: Eagles, Toads, Spit

I like to quote the verse, "I can do all things through Him who gives me strength." I kind of envision me skiing and God is kind of like an eagle right next to me screeching in my ear that everything is going to be all good. I just try my best and that's all I can ask for.

- Nick Goepper

topic: Eagles, Giving, Trying, Give Me Strength

I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The Monkees, The Beatles, The Eagles, and America.

- Page Hamilton

topic: Kids, Eagles, Play, Dixieland

Essence of newspaper is the large size. You are a reader you're an eagle flying over the desert, you're scanning. You see the rabbit and you zoom down and you grab it. That just happens naturally in a size that fits very well with how the human body works. Got to have a large display and it has to be portable.

- Russ Wilcox

topic: Eagles, Essence, Flying, Zoom, Scanning

I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably someone who could write and had a high voice. That was me.

- Timothy B. Schmit

topic: Writing, Player, Eagles

I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.

- Peter Scott

topic: Eagles, Shooting, Settling, Settling In

I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for Serena.

- Ron Rash

topic: Eagles, Rattlesnakes, Hunts

Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air.

- Francois Arago

topic: Men, Air, Eagles, Euler

Which is bigger? A baby eagle or a giant crow?

- Rona Barrett

topic: Baby, Eagles, Perspective

I have a spirit guide. His name is Gray Eagle. This is why some people think I am a really crazy person, but he is the one who helps me and guide me. So I'm talking to the spirit world all the time.

- Rosemary Altea

topic: Crazy, Thinking, Eagles, Spirit World, Guide Me

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

- Gene Fowler

topic: Eagles, Wings, Bags

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

- George Bancroft

source: George Bancroft (1855). “History of the United States, from the discovery of the amarican continent”, p.8

topic: Fall, Government, Eagles

Spring One. Spring One. I am Eagle. I am Eagle. I can hear you very well. I feel excellent. My feeling is excellent.

- Gherman Titov

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". Message from Vostok II, www.imdb.com. August 1961.

topic: Moon, Eagles, Star Gazing

I enjoy my solo career because I get to play smaller places like clubs and theaters, and the interaction with the audience is much higher quality. It also sounds better than a baseball stadium. Everybody has a good seat, and I don't have to play a specific part like I do in the Eagles.

- Joe Walsh

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Baseball, Eagles, Play

I have been trying to heal my body from surgeries over the last five years - from my broken leg, tonsillectomy, wisdom teeth, eagle syndrome and hip. Needless to say, it's been a very painful process.

- John Michael Montgomery

topic: Eagles, Years, Broken, Last Five Years, Broken Leg

Wine transforms moles into eagles.

- Charles Baudelaire

topic: Wine, Eagles, Moles

Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.

- A. O. Scott

topic: Pigs, Eagles, Bird, Lisbeth Salander, Predatory

You are the mountain, you are the rock You are the cord and you’re the spark You are the eagle, you are the lark You are the world and you’re remarkable You’re the ocean eating the shore You are the calm inside the storm You’re every emotion, you can endure You are the world and the world is yours. ((The World as I See It))

- Jason Mraz

topic: Ocean, Rocks, Eagles, World Is Yours

Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanied. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.

- Leonard Ravenhill

topic: Loneliness, Men, Eagles, Alone With God, Great Souls

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

- Aberjhani

topic: Angel, Eagles, Wings, Eagles Wings, September 11 2001

The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

- Abraham Lincoln

source: Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.93, Stanford University Press

topic: Money, Eagles, Gold

Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don't fly. Eagles don't swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don't have feathers. Stop comparing. There's plenty of room in the forest.

- Charles R. Swindoll

source: Charles R. Swindoll (1979). “Standing Out: Being Real in an Unreal World”, Multnomah

topic: Father, Squirrels, Eagles

It's hard to soar with the eagles when you're surrounded by turkeys.

- Adam Sandler

topic: Eagles, Turkeys, Deeds