Quotes and Sayings About Hawks
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
-- Alexander Pope -
I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck
-- Alison Croggon -
They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.
-- Amelia Atwater-RhodesSource : Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2010). “The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows”, p.1, Delacorte Press
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Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.
-- Arne GlimcherSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.
-- Bob Beauprez -
I have a Dominique Wilkins Hawks jersey that I still wear. That's probably my favorite one. What's funny is that I spend all this time collecting jerseys, and now people are out there collecting mine.
-- Chris Paul -
Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
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Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies
-- Daniel Handler -
The trombone is not meant for romance... any instrument that hawks up it's own loogie every ten minutes is not meant for wooin' the ladies.
-- David Crowe -
There are all kinds of smiles. On the football field I mostly used the one where the hawk spots the dove.
-- Deacon Jones -
I bleed and breathe Hawks. Even when I played for other teams I felt funny, because I was a Hawk.
-- Dominique Wilkins -
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A pine needle fell in the forest. The hawk saw it. The deer heard it. The white bear smelled it
-- Edith PattouSource : Edith Pattou (2014). “North Child”, p.46, Usborne Publishing Ltd
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I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy.
-- Edward Burns -
We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.
-- George P. Shultz -
But when Warren has spoken on national security, she has invariably spouted warmed-over, banal Democratic hawk tripe of the kind that she just recited about Israel and Gaza. During her Senate campaign, for instance, she issued wildly militaristic - and in some cases clearly false - statements about Iran and its nuclear program that would have been comfortable on the pages of The Weekly Standard.
-- Glenn Greenwald -
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The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.
-- Horace -
I had a faux-hawk for a while and I used to buzz the sides and design it. It was really bad.
-- Joe Jonas -
Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?
-- Karl Rove -
Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?
-- Kenneth Rexroth -
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If the F.A.A. was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to make their first flight at Kitty Hawk.
-- Larry Walters -
And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.
-- Leigh Bardugo -
To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door, trailing all the windy, feral outdoors into your living room.
-- Maureen Corrigan -
Some things are worth the fat and calories, although I have to watch it like a hawk.
-- Megyn Kelly -
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We must have government, but we must watch them like a hawk.
-- Millicent Fenwick -
We got the Hawks I aint talking about the Peach state
-- Nicki Minaj -
Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.
-- Pete Hegseth -
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A retaliator behaves like a hawk when he is attacked by a hawk, and like a dove when he meets a dove. When he meets another retaliator he plays like a dove. A retaliator is a conditional strategist. His behaviour depends on the behaviour of his opponent.
-- Richard Dawkins -
I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.
-- Richard Farnsworth