400 Eagle Quotes, Sayings On Flying Like an Eagle to Inspire

Best Eagle Quotes

• “The Eagle, he was lord above.” —William Wordsworth
• “Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.” —Douglas Coupland
• “The eagle suffers little birds to sing.” —William Shakespeare
• “And little eagles wave their wings in gold.” —Alexander Pope
• “Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.” —Neil Armstrong
• “When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.” —Winston Churchill
• “The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.” —Gilbert K. Chesterton
• “Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.” —Elizabeth Bowen
• “The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.” —Gilbert K. Chesterton
• “The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.” —Don Henley
• “In an eagle there is all the wisdom of the world.” —Lame Deer
• “But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, leaving no tract behind.” —William Shakespeare
• “There’s a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor’s shame.” —Juvenal
• “You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.” —William J. Clinton
• “Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.” —Glenn Frey
• “The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror! —Joyce Meyer
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “It’s a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.” —Karen Armstrong
• “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
• “Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume to fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom, See their own feathers pluck’d, to wing the dart, which rank corruption destines for their heart! —Thomas Moore

Fly Like an Eagle Quotes

• “My name ain’t Steve Miller, but I fly like an Eagle.” —Coolio
• “A friend is like an eagle; you don’t find them flying in flocks.” —Anonymous
• “Why fly like a hen when you can soar like an eagle? —Pio of Pietrelcina
• “You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.” —William Henry Hudson
• “Why fly like a hen when you can soar like an eagle? —Pio of Pietrelcina
• “Don’t look down, it’s an impossible view; Fly like an eagle whatever you do.” —Mos Def
• “When a storm is coming, all other birds seek shelter. The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it. So, in the storms of life may your heart be like an eagle’s and soar above.” —Anonymous
• “In theatre, the main objective is to make the art happy, not the audience! If you have to choose between the audience and the art, always choose the second! You must know that the audience will always pull you down; resist it and fly at the heights like an eagle! —Mehmet Murat Ildan

Eagle Inspirational Quotes

• “We are eagles of one nest…the nest is in our soul.” —Led Zeppelin
• “You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.” —Tom Petty
• “Our power of perseverance is as that of an eagle. We soar above our challengers.” —Ellen J. Barrier
• “Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals! —Mehmet Murat ildan
• “The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror!” —Joyce Meyer
• “A very great vision is needed, and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.” —Crazy Horse
• “Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.” —Napoleon Hill
• “The eagle does not escape the storm. The eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on the winds that bring the storm.” —Jack White
• “The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same time as an eagle. I witnessed, close up, effortlessness and lightness combined with strength, precision and determination.” —Norman Foster
• “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

Eagle Motivational Quotes

• “Don’t quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.” —Ken Blanchard
• “But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, leaving no track behind.” —William Shakespeare
• “Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.” —Arthur Schopenhauer
• “Leaders are like eagles… they don’t flock. You’ll find them one at a time.” —Knute Rockne
• “The eagle suffers little birds to sing, and is not careful what they mean thereby.” —William Shakespeare
• “The whole wide ether is the eagle’s way: The whole earth is a brave man’s fatherland.” —Euripedes
• “The eagle that soars in the upper air does not worry itself how it is to cross rivers.” —Gladys Aylward
• “A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.” —Robert Green Ingersoll
• “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
• “Like two eagles soar as one upon the river of the wind with the promise of forever, we will take the past and learn how to begin.” —Pocahontas
• “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
• “And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.” —The Bible
• “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

Eagle Quotes about Life

• “If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can’t be flocking with the turkeys.” —Warren Buffett
• “Don’t be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God’s altitude for your life.” —Myles Munroe
• “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
• “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
• “Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.” —Elbert Hubbard
• “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
• “Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for what is left behind. Remaining in the recognition of the absolute view, you should leave this life like an eagle soaring up into the blue sky.” —Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
• “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
• “Democracy is the eagle on the back of a dollar bill, with 13 arrows in one claw, 13 leaves on a branch, 13 tail feathers, and 13 stars over its head – this signifies that when the white man came to this country, it was bad luck for the Indians, bad luck for the trees, bad luck for the wildlife, and lights out for the American eagle.” —Johnny Carson
• “Remember that your tracks are one strand of the web woven endlessly in the hand of god. They’re tied to those of the mouse in the field, the eagle on the mountain, the crab in its hold, the lizard beneath its rock. The leaf that falls to the ground a thousand miles away touches your life. The impress of your foot in the soil is felt through a thousand generations.” —Daniel Quinn
• “The life of an Indian is like the wings of the air. That is why you notice the hawk knows how to get his prey. The Indian is like that. The hawk swoops down on its prey, so does the Indian. In his lament he is like an animal. For instance, the coyote is sly, so is the Indian. The eagle is the same. That is why the Indian is always feathered up, he is a relative to the wings of the air.” —Black Elk
• “The fact that you couldn’t see Alfred Hitchcock’s first film The Mountain Eagle, or that you couldn’t see so many of F.W. Murnau’s masterpieces, or that you couldn’t see so many of Oscar Micheaux’s really intriguing race melodramas, made with fierce independent spirit against all odds in ’20s and ’30s America. That stuff haunted me. They really did bring to life a sense of 20th Century history: cultural history, pop history, gender politics and race politics, socio economic history, all that stuff. It was bracing and instructive.” —Guy Maddin
• “She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through it, silent death. It was a place where snakes could slither and bogs could suck the shoe right off your foot. And it was a place, she thought, that went bright and beautiful with the twinkling of fireflies, where wildflowers thrived in the shade and the stingy light. Where an eagle could soar like a king. There was no beauty without risk. No life without it.” —Nora Roberts
• “It’s nothing but a big stroke job in this country. The government strokes you every day of your life. Religion never stops stroking you. Big business gives you a good stroke. And it’s one big, transcontinental, cross-country, red, white and blue stroke job… Do you know what the national emblem for this country ought to be? Forget that bald eagle. The national emblem of this country ought to be Uncle Sam standing naked at attention saluting, and seated on a chair next to him, the Statue of Liberty jerking him off. That would be a good symbol for the United Strokes of America.” —George Carlin

Eagle Flying High Quotes

• “Fly, on your way, like an eagle / Fly as high as the Sun.” —Bruce Dickinson
• “An eagle uses the negative energy of a storm to fly even higher.” —Eric Thomas
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “…. Anon from the castle walls the crescent banner falls, and the crowd beholds instead, like a portent in the sky, Iskander’s banner fly, The Black Eagle with double head. And shouts ascend on high …..” Long live Scanderbeg.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• “In the yoga sutras, they have this beautiful analogy that the journey of life is like the flight of an eagle, or the journey over multiple lifetimes is like a flight of an eagle. First, the eagle stretches its wings high, high, high, and experiences everything that the world has to offer in terms of flight. It’s growing and flying and it’s experiencing, and then it brings its wings down gracefully and that is the completion of the journey.” —Karan Bajaj
• “Out of the night Hopper came, and Perrin was one with the wolf. Hopper, the cub who had watched the eagles soar, and wanted so badly to fly through the sky as the eagles did. The cub who hopped and jumped and leaped until he could leap higher than any other wolf, who never lost the cub’s yearning to soar through the sky. […] Something crashed into his head, and as he fell, he did not know if it was Hopper or himself who died.” —Robert Jordan

Quotes about Eagles Fly Alone

• “Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.” —John Webster
• “And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun.” —Khalil Gibran
• “A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the either. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.” —Khalil Gibran
• “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

Soar Like an Eagle Quotes

• “The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.” —Bill Vaughan
• “Baby eagles can never soar under their family’s wing.” —Liu Yang
• “Don’t quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.” —Ken Blanchard
• “There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.” —Carl Sandburg
• “Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.” —Steven Wright
• “America is still an eagle, and she’s ready to soar again.” —Ronald Reagan
• “You can’t soar like an eagle and crap like a canary.” —Ed Sabol
• “When you soar like an eagle, you attract the hunters.” —Milton S. Gould
• “You can’t soar like an eagle and crap like a canary.” —Ed Sabol
• “You can’t hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles.” —Hubert H. Humphrey
• “The eagle may soar, but the weasel never gets sucked into a jet engine.” —John Benfield
• “May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.” —Jonathan Lockwood Huie
• “You cannot soar with the eagles as long as you hang out with the turkeys.” —Joel Osteen
• “Our power of perseverance is as that of an eagle. We soar above our challengers.” —Ellen J. Barrier
• “Man’s hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.” —Ralph Ellison
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “That eagle’s fate and mine are one, which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, wherewith he won’t to soar so high.” —Edmund Waller
• “Don’t waste your time trying to turn ducks into eagles. Hire people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar.” —Jim Rohn
• “If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights.” —Andy Andrews
• “So the struck eagle, stretch’d upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View’d his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing’d the shaft that quiver’d in his heart.” —Lord Byron
• “So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.” —Ivan Turgenev
• “High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the clouds, high over the clouds gleam the stars… high over the stars sweep the angels.” —Heinrich Heine
• “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
• “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
• “As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires.” —Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
• “According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in his courage, and his spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the world itself could not contain his joyous soul.” —John Green
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “And God says to all of us, you are no chicken; you are an eagle. Fly, eagle, fly. And God wants us to shake ourselves, spread our pinions, and then lift off and soar and rise, and rise toward the confident and the good and the beautiful. Rise towards the compassionate and the gentle and the caring. Rise to become what God intends us to be – eagles, not chickens.” —Desmond Tutu
• “And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.” —Herman Melville
• “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
• “There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar.” —Herman Melville
• “It takes two wings for an eagle to fly. If an eagle were to try to fly with just one wing he would only spin around in circles on the ground. The same is true with many people who are trying to soar spiritually on their faith, but have not added patience. These just keep going around in circles, getting more and more frustrated and kicking up a lot of dust. Any truth that we teach without this counter balancing truth will lead us to frustration, not fulfillment.” —Rick Joyner
• “The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon, the whisper of spruce needles, or the screech of an eagle. But he will not make friends with any of these creatures and when his heart aches with longing, he will curse me. Have I done all to keep the air fresh? Have I cared enough about the water? Have I left the eagle to soar in freedom? Have I done everything I could to earn my grandchild’s fondness? —Chief Dan George

Quotes on Eagle Eye

• “A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind.” —William Shakespeare
• “Eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.” —Dejan Stojanovic
• “Love may be blind, but this I’ll state – it’s eagle-eyed compared to hate.” —Robert Breault
• “Remain a witness to your emotions as if from a great distance an eagles eye view.” —Rajneesh
• “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
• “Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.” —Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
• “My only means of self-defense is to wiggle my eye and feign being a salamander. It has saved my life but once I was partially eaten by a bald eagle who thought I was a salamander. Hence, my skills. Hence.” —Thom Yorke
• “Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand, And on the sun’s noon-glory gaze; With eye like his, thy lids expand, And fringe their disk with golden rays: Though fix’d on earth, in darkness rooted there, Light is thy element, thy dwelling air, Thy prospect heaven.” —James Montgomery
• “Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.” —John Milton
• “Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” Piper leaned over the console. “Are you sure they’re Roman?” Leo rolled his eyes. “No, Pipes. It could be a random group of giant eagles flying in perfect formation. Of course they’re Roman! —Rick Riordan
• “Heaven begun is the living proof that makes the heaven to come credible. Christ in you is “the hope of glory.” It is the eagle eye of faith which penetrates the grave, and sees far into the tranquil things of death. He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already.” —Frederick William Robertson
• “All right.” Shimmering droplets on her eyelashes, stars caught in transition. “But will you replace it with something for me?” “Anything.” His body was hers. Brushing her fingers over his lips, she said, “You gave me an eagle. I want to give you one, too.” A tender kiss pressed to the scar. “I want us to fly together.” —Nalini Singh
• “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
• “From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.”— Victor Hugo
• “Some relate . . . that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if they cannot look steadily on, she rejects them as spurious. We may truly try our faith by immediate intuitions of the Sun of Righteousness. Direct faith to act itself, immediately and directly on the incarnation of Christ and His mediation; and if it be not the right kind and race, it will turn its eyes aside to anything else.” —John Owen
• “You’ll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters, all run to quicksilver in your jeans. More! Any boy hit by lightning, lift his lid and there on his eyeball, pretty as the Lord’s Prayer on a pin, find the last scene the boy ever saw! A box-Brownie photo, by God, of that fire climbing down the sky to blow you like a penny whistle, suck your soul back up along the bright stair! —Ray Bradbury
• “My brethren, let me say, be like Christ at all times. Imitate him in “public.” Most of us live in some sort of public capacity-many of us are called to work before our fellow-men every day. We are watched; our words are caught; our lives are examined-taken to pieces. The eagle-eyed, argus-eyed world observes everything we do, and sharp critics are upon us. Let us live the life of Christ in public. Let us take care that we exhibit our Master, and not ourselves-so that we can say, “It is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me.” —Charles Spurgeon
• “Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne, Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold: Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific, and all his men Look’d at each other with a wild surmise, Silent, upon a peak in Darien.” —John Keats
• “So it ends as I guessed it would,’ his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within him ere it fled, almost gay it seemed to be casting off all doubt and care and fear. And even as it winged away into forgetfulness it heard voices, and they seemed to be crying in some forgotten world far above: ‘The eagles are coming! The eagles are coming!’ For one moment more Pippin’s thought hovered. “Bilbo! But no! That came in his tale, long long ago. This is my tale, and it ended now. Good-bye!’ And his thought fled far away and his eyes saw no more.” —J. R. R. Tolkien

Eagle Flying Quotes

• “You know, I’m an eagle, flying around in the mountains.” —Link Wray
• “Leaders take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.” —D. Wayne Calloway
• “If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.” —Brian Tracy
• “If you want to fly with eagles, stop swimming with ducks.” —T. Harv Eker
• “If you want to fly with the eagles, don’t swim with the ducks! —T. Harv Eker
• “I know he’d be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.” —John Denver
• “I’d rather have my teeth drilled than listen to that awful song, ‘Fly, Eagles Fly.’ —Chris Christie
• “Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.” —E. F. Schumacher
• “Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.” — T. D. Jakes
• “I was born by God’s dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.” —Aaron Tippin
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “The naturalist picked up the eagle and said to it, “Thou dost belong to the sky and not to this earth; stretch forth thy wings and fly.” —Paul H. Dunn
• “There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor’s shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.” —William Harvey
• “But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.” —Terry Pratchett
• “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
• “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 I were an animal, I’d probably be a bald eagle, since I’m already bald and I love to fish. But I’d probably be a shaky-ass eagle because I’m afraid of flying.” —Steve Harvey
• “The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside.” —Hannah Whitehall Smith
• “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
• “We’re all turkeys! Some of us are running around with our heads cut off, some of us are flapping our wings that hard we’re close to flying. But nothing is an eagle bar God.” —Phil Collins
• “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
• “The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. An just so does our God to us.” —Hannah Whitall Smith
• “My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest. My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well. My heart will be strong as a great oak. My spirit will spread an eagle’s wings, and fly forth.” —Juliet Marillier
• “Eagles: When they walk, they stumble. They are not what one would call graceful. They were not designed to walk. They fly. And when they fly, oh, how they fly, so free, so graceful. They see from the sky what we never see.” —Anonymous
• “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
• “To object that the facts about human nature set limits on our ability to change the world and ourselves makes about as much sense as the lament that our lack of wings sets limits on our ability to ‘fly’ as far as eagles under our own power.” —Noam Chomsky
• “I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.” —Edward Abbey
• “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
• “Om rubed his head. This wasn’t god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it wasn’t a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We’re like eagles up here, he thought. Sometimes we show tortoise how to fly. Then we let go.” —Terry Pratchett
• “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
• “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
• “A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. “People say you are a genius. Are you?” he asked. “You might say so.” said the Master, none too modestly. “And what makes one a genius?” “The ability to recognize.” “Recognize what?” “The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.” —Anthony de Mello
• “The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson’s henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She found herself wondering if the Lord was going to send her an eagle to fly her those four miles, or send Elijah in his fiery chariot to give her a lift. Blasphemy,” she told herself complacently. “The Lord provides strength, not taxicabs.” —Stephen King
• “Man wasn’t made to share the universe with gods. Their ways are not meant for the humble likes of us. But we’ve decoded some of their secrets regardless. Like worms, we’ve grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight. But we can never really fly. We try, and succeed to a certain extent, but the fall is always – will always be – there.” —Darren Shan
• “The mother eagle teaches her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. And just so does our God to us. He stirs up our comfortable nests, and pushes us over the edge of them, and we are forced to use our wings to save ourselves from fatal falling. Read your trials in this light, and see if you cannot begin to get a glimpse of their meaning. Your wings are being developed.” —Hannah Whitall Smith
• “My grandfather would have loved to have met you,” he told her huskily. “He would have called you ‘She Moves Trees out of His Path.’ “She looked lost, but his da laughed. He’d known the old man, too. “He called me ‘He Who Must Run into Trees,'” Charles explained, and in a spirit of honesty, a need for his mate to know who he was, he continued, “or sometimes ‘Running Eagle.’ “‘Running Eagle’?” Anna puzzled it over, frowning at him. “What’s wrong with that?” “Too stupid to fly,” murmured his father with a little smile.” —Patricia Briggs
• “According to Festus, our flying table, Buford, made it back safely while we were in Charleston, so those eagles didn’t get him. Unfortunately, he lost the laundry bag with your pants.” “Dang it!” Frank Barked, which Leo figured was probably severe profanity for him. No doubt Frank would’ve cursed some more -busting out the golly gees and the gosh darns- but Percy interrupted by doubling over and groaning. “Did the world just turn upside down?” he asked. Jason pressed his hands to his head. “Yeah, and it’s spinning. Everything is yellow. Is it supposed to be yellow? —Rick Riordan
• “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
• “Golden eagles have an interesting way of mating, where they connect in the air while flying at eighty miles an hour and then they start dropping and they don’t stop dropping until the act is completed. So it’s not uncommon that they both fall all the way to the ground, hit the ground and both of them die. That’s how committed they are to this. I thought to myself, ‘Boy, don’t we feel like wimps for stopping to answer the phone.’ I don’t know about you, but if I’m one of these two birds, you’re getting close to the ground… I would serioulsy consider fakin’ it.” —Ellen DeGeneres

Inspiring Eagle Quotes and Sayings

• “Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.” —Elizabeth Bowen
• “In an eagle there is all the wisdom of the world.” —Lame Deer
• “Wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.” —Matthew, XXIV, 28
• “Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”—Arthur Schopenhauer
• “Around, around, in ceaseless circles wheeling/with clangs of wings and scream, the Eagle sailed.” ——
• “The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad.” —Mobutu Sésé Seko
• “A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.”—Crazy Horse
• “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
• “The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.”—Aesop fable
• “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.” — Samuel Berger
• “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
• “I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy.” —Benjamin Franklin
• “Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight, or the open apple-blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law. Where function does not change form does not change.” —Louis Sullivan
• “When God made the oyster, he guaranteed his absolute economic and social security. He built the oyster a house, his shell, to shelter and protect him from his enemies… But when God made the Eagle, He declared, “The blue sky is the limit—build your own house!”… The Eagle, not the oyster, is the emblem of America.”— Author unknown

Quotes about Eagle Scouts

• “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
• “I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me.” —Michael Moore
• “As a child, I tried to play by the rules. I got very good grades in school; I was an Eagle Scout; and I believed in all of it.” —George Meyer
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn’t have a zip code. It’s too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn’t farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.” —Rick Perry
• “Give me a young man who has kept himself morally clean and has faithfully attended his church meetings. Give me a young man who has magnified his priesthood and has earned the Duty of God Award and is an Eagle Scout. Give me a young man who is a Seminary graduate and has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon. Give me such a young man, and I will give you a young man who can perform miracles for the Lord in the mission field and throughout his life.” —Ezra Taft Benson

Quotes about Eagle and Crow

• “Which is bigger? A baby eagle or a giant crow? —Rona Barrett
• “Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.” —John Webster
• “If you want to fly with the eagles you can’t hang out with the crows.” —Brock Lesnar
• “The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the crow.” —William Blake
• “(After listening to people gripe and complain just smile and remember) Crows can’t hang with eagles.” —Joel Osteen
• “Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.” —Sitting Bull
• “As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, crowded House.” —Zakk Wylde
• “Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.” —Josh Billings
• “A person becomes great not be sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. Can a crow become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building? —Chanakya
• “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
• “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
• “…. Anon from the castle walls the crescent banner falls, and the crowd beholds instead, like a portent in the sky, Iskander’s banner fly, The Black Eagle with double head. And shouts ascend on high …..” Long live Scanderbeg.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  “Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.” —Sitting Bull

Eagle Quotes and Sayings

• “Wine transforms moles into eagles.” —Charles Baudelaire
• “Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.” —Horace
• “I’ll always be a Golden Eagle.” —Dwyane Wade
• “Art still followed where Rome’s eagles flew.” —Alexander Pope
• “Prayer flies where the eagle never flew.” —Thomas Guthrie
• “I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows.” —Truman Capote
• “I don’t have to play for the Eagles.” —Terrell Owens
• “One hundred sparrow does not make one eagle.” —Mehmet Murat Ildan
• “But who does hawk at eagles with a dove? —George Herbert
• “If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.” —Jamie Foxx
• “The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.” —Abraham Lincoln
• “You can’t cage an eagle for long without destroying it.” —Patricia Briggs
• “Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.” —Glenn Frey
• “Like the eagle, we (artists) must be able to see clearly.” —Jack White
• “I’m not going to mortgage the Eagles’ future for Marcus Mariota.” —Chip Kelly
• “I’ve got my old favorites like The Eagles and Bon Jovi.” —Niall Horan
• “I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for Serena.” —Ron Rash
• “The eagles ruled the air as the tribes ruled the land.” —Conn Iggulden
• “I still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.” —Stephen Malkmus
• “Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies.” —Billy Squier
• “I didn’t live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles.” —George Thorogood
• “Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.” —Martin Farquhar Tupper
• “Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen.” —Henry Winter
• “I’ve been to two concerts in the last 10 years.Bob Seger and the Eagles.” —Toby Keith
• “Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not as high as man’s desires.” —Benjamin Disraeli
• “The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.” —William Shakespeare
• “When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head! —William Blake
• “One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows.” —Edith Roosevelt
• “Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there.” —Suzanne Curchod
• “Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air.” —Francois Arago
• “The ‘Crue’ is not the hardest band to cover. There are no harmonies like the Eagles.” —Brian Miller
• “We gotta be free – The eagle and me. See Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women. —Yip Harburg
• “American Eagle can be a selling point for other young, cutting-edge companies to come to Pittsburgh. —Ed Rendell
• “How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle’s is its sight.” —Franz Grillparzer
• “The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.” —Benito Mussolini
• “The bird of Jove, stoop’d from his aery tour, two birds of gayest plume before him drove.” —John Milton
• “The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.” —Joey Ramone
• “In the early days, you would get skinheads, the Eagles and Black Sabbath playing the same show.” —Ozzy Osbourne
• “My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.” —Kerry King
• “I’m certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I’m quite proud of.” —Don Henley
• “I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.” —Mark Twain
• “An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold, whether it consists of guineas, sovereigns or eagles.” —Hans F. Sennholz
• “Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think.” —Aldo Leopold
• “Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, where his eagles never flew, none as invincible as they.” —William Cowper
• “Bogotá seemed a cruel towering place, like an eagles’ nest now inhabited by vultures and their dying prey.” —Paul Theroux
• “Larry Flynt, running for governor of California. His goal – change our state bird to the spread eagle.” —Craig Kilborn
• “Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They’re looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future.” —William Shatner
• “I can still sing most Eagles songs, even though I never bought a record and never liked the band.” —Craig Finn
• “But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.” —Lou Reed
• “The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.” —Nadine Gordimer
• “A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.” —Robert Green Ingersoll
• “Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family.” —James L. Jones
• “A powerful combination to ensure success is having the vision of an eagle and the heart of a lion.” —Robert G. Allen
• “Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler’s Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.” —David Mamet
• “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
• “To pray is to mount on eagle’s wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth.” —Charles Spurgeon
• “At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.” —Vance Havner
• “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
• “Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals! —Mehmet Murat Ildan
• “God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings.” —John Piper
• “Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.” —Chinua Achebe
• “Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.” —H. G. Wells
• “The last time I played golf with President Ford he hit a birdie. And an eagle, a moose, an elk, an aardvark…” —Bob Hope
• “We use pandas and eagles and things. I’d love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.” —E. O. Wilson
• “The Eagles, let’s face it, they were a pretty cool group, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie. I had this really eclectic background in music.” —Meredith Brooks
• “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
• “If you are a sparrow, don’t attack the eagle; be wise! If you are an eagle, don’t attack the sparrow; be just! —Mehmet Murat Ildan
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride…When people see it they know it means dignity.” —Cesar Chavez
• “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
• “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
• “In leadership we teach we teach;Don’t send your ducks to eagle school because it won’t help.Ducks finishes eagle school,sees his first rabbit, makes him a friend.” —Jim Rohn
• “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
• “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
• “They say, ‘The coward dies many times’; so does the beloved. Didn’t the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined? —C. S. Lewis
• “I don’t mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I’m not one of those artists who’s going to sit here and deny the past.” —Don Henley
• “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
• “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
• “Where do vanished objects go?” “Into nonbeing, which is to say, everything,” replied Professor McGonagall. “Nicely phrased,” replied the eagle door knocker, and the door swung open.” —J. K. Rowling
• “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
• “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
• “The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.” —Winston Churchill
• “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
• “The Justice Department ruled that Native American tribes are allowed to grow and sell marijuana on reservations. This decision was hailed as a victory by Native American leader Giggling Eagle.” —Conan O’Brien
• “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
• “Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animal’s contemporary with us in the geologic formations.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don’t be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.” —Anton Chekhov
• “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
• “The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove.” —Horace
• “We Americans, in most states at least, have not yet experienced a bear-less, eagle-less, cat- less, wolf-less woods. Germany strove for maximum yields of both timber and game and got neither.” —Aldo Leopold
• “I’ll dig in into my days, having come here to live, not to visit. Grey is the price of neighboring with eagles, of knowing a mountain’s vast presence, seen or unseen.” —Denise Levertov
• “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
• “I’m not a fan of the Eagles, but I’ve watched their documentary numerous times and everyone who’s watched it with me has sung along to the songs, much to my dismay.” —Bill Hader
• “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
• “Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.” —Alfred Lord Tennyson
• “Tim Tebow may be back in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles. As you remember, he was thrown out of the league when he landed his gyrocopter on the White House lawn.” —David Letterman
• “It was as if his point of view had, within seconds, gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle. For the sky was hollow, and the world was round.” —Christopher Paolini
• “There were lots of things that I recognized from my experience with Eagle Claw and Wu Hao, and here was the combination of the whole kit and kaboodle, the whole tamale in one.” —Lou Reed
• “The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! They are flown.” —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• “I think The Eagles single-handedly destroyed country music – well, now, country music has been killed by rap crossovers, so it’s hard to say. Maybe we can just agree that money killed country music.” —John Doe
• “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
• “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
• “Across the San Joaquin Valley, across California, across the entire Southwest of the United States, wherever there are Mexican people, wherever there are farm workers, our movement is spreading like flames across a dry plain.” —Cesar Chavez
• “From my birth I have aspired like the eagle – but unlike the eagle, my wings have failed. . . . Congratulate me then that I have found a fitting scope for my powers.” —Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• “Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.” —Alan Watts
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, “Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless — discuss.” —J. K. Rowling
• “It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great blue herons, the bald eagles, the salmon, that we are sorry.” —Brenda Peterson
• “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
• “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
• “The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,–a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion.” —Edgar Allan Poe
• “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
• “Let us return to our eagle’s nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature…whence we formerly took our flight.” —Romain Rolland
• “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
• “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
• “After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. “Your advice,” said Cicero, “were good if we were to fight jackdaws.” —Plutarch
• “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
• “He worked night and day. He made a coat that would transform him; he would be more than a man; a winged creature, beautiful as light. All the birds brought him feathers. Even the eagle. Even the swan.” —Catherine Fisher
• “The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.” —William Shakespeare
• “My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I hold, But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.” —William Shakespeare
• “Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.” —Edward Abbey
• “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.” —O. Scott
• “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
• “We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumes flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle: these are our brothers. All things are connected like the blood which unites one’s family.” —Chief Seattle
• “I’ve found that from my point of view, the Chen style contained many things that I knew on a fairly superficial level from Eagle Claw, and that had Chen elements of what seemed to me the soft in Eagle Claw.” —Lou Reed
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “In days of yore, the poet’s pen from wing of bird was plunder’d, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove’s own eagle sunder’d. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet’s numbers; In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers.” —John Adams
• “New Scientist magazine reported that in the future, cars could be powered by hazelnuts. That’s encouraging, considering an eight-ounce jar of hazelnuts costs about nine dollars. Yeah, I’ve got an idea for a car that runs on bald eagle heads and Faberge eggs.” —Jimmy Fallon
• “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
• “Too many commercials. Too many lies. Too many celebrities. I don’t recognize. Too many brand names. Too many magazines. I got so much sensation, I can’t feel a thing. Simple. Living. Got to get to simple – living. Simple living. Simple… simply living.” —Fred Small
• “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
• “And it seems to me a blasphemy to say that the Holy Spirit is Love. In the Old Testament it is an Eagle: in the New it is a Dove.Christ insists on the Dove: but in His supreme moments He includes the Eagle.” —D. H. Lawrence
• “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 killing and a field where a thousand corpses lie.” —Stephen Crane
• “If we will only surrender ourselves utterly to the Lord, and will trust Him perfectly, we shall find our souls “mounting up with wings as eagles” to the “heavenly places” in Christ Jesus, where earthly annoyances or sorrows have no power to disturb us.” —Hannah Whitall Smith
• “Metaphors for God drawn from human experience can easily be literalized. While we are immediately aware that the personal God is not really a rock or a mother eagle, it is easy enough to imagine that God is really a king or a father.” —Sandra Marie Schneiders
• “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
• “These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.” —Bram Stoker
• “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
• “The Christian church [in its true identity] does not persecute; any more than a lily scratches the thorns, or a lamb pursues and tears the wolves, or a turtledove hunts the hawks and eagles, or a chaste and modest virgin fights and scratches like whores and harlots.” —Roger Williams
• “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
• “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
• “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.” —John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
• “Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.” —Frederick Douglass
• “I remember back in 1994 when the Eagles charged more than $100 for tickets. They said, ‘We ain’t Pearl Jam.’ that’s back when records were selling and the Eagles had sold just about as many as anyone on the planet. And years later we’re still charging less than them.” —Eddie Vedder
• “Farewell,” they cried, “Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey’s end!” That is the polite thing to say among eagles. “May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks,” answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply.” —J. R. R. Tolkien
• “We’re definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock – the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side – her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he’s a big fan of the Eagles and like that.” —Charles Kelley
• “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
• “The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other.” —Lewis Nordan
• “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
• “When I first came to the Eagles, I found a bunch of guys shell-shocked from losing. They had been through some lean years, they just didn’t know how to handle the pressure. They were quiet; they kept to themselves. I said, ” Hey, this has gotta change. Let’s make pressure fun.” —Ron Jaworski
• “I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.” —Carlos Castaneda
• “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
• “You can’t criticize Bob Dylan’s singing. You have to respect Billy Joel as a brilliant poet. You can’t tell me there’s a better rock band ever than Led Zeppelin. And if you speak during the Eagles’ “Last Resort,” we’re done. I’m just asking for seven minutes. This stuff really matters, you know.” —Charlie Sheen
• “If we stand by the eagle, fish will die; if we stand by the fish, eagle will die! This dilemma has been created by the random evolutionary process. There is no goodness, there is no justice and there is no intelligence in here. We are living in a primitive and flawed order.” —Mehmet Murat Ildan
• “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
• “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
• “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
• “All I cared about was the music, like hearing Townes [Van Zandt] talking about “For the sake of the song”; it’s all that mattered. In spite of me a couple of things happened, mainly the Eagles and Seven Bridges Road. That certainly helped me survive. Joan Baez, Rita Coolidge, and Ian Matthews did it.” —Steve Young
• “I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.” —Benjamin Franklin
• “Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express their relationship with nature. Ashes and Snow is a 21st-century bestiary filled with species from around the world. Nature’s orchestra includes not just Homo sapiens but elephants, whales, manatees, eagles, cheetahs, orangutans, and many others.” —Gregory Colbert
• “If you want to create a high-society, you must give high things to the public! Show the public eagle; public will be an eagle! Show the public a rat, public will be a rat! Whatever you give to the public, public will take that! To create a high-society, you must give high things to the public! —Mehmet Murat Ildan
• “Because I do not hope to turn again because I do not hope because I do not hope to turn desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn the vanished power of the usual reign? —T. S. Eliot
• “For a moment, I believe, there was a stillness. A shocking realization by all things – beetles, dormice, the spiders spinning their webs in the moonlight, even the hot metal of the tracks and the wind in the trees – that Death had just shrieked past like a stinking black eagle and made off with a remarkable man.” —Alexander Masters
• “I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.” —Alexandre Dumas
• “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
• “Somebody has to go polish the stars, they’re looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, for the eagles and starlings and gulls have all been complaining they’re tarnished and worn, they say they want new ones we cannot afford. So please get your rags and your polishing jars, somebody has to go polish the stars.” —Shel Silverstein
• “I loved both [Bob] Seger and the Eagles, knowing why they didn’t play some of the songs I wanted to hear. But at the same time, they covered all the big bases, and the stuff that most people had heard. But they definitely had a bunch of album cuts that I wanted to hear that they didn’t get around to.” —Toby Keith
• “I want to work for Nigeria, my blood is here. I captained this team for 14 years, and it is my country. But you people think if there is no Super Eagles we won’t exist. I came from another country to coach the Super Eagles so don’t think if we don’t win my career is over, no. It’s just starting.” —Stephen Keshi
• “The correct answer is the University Titans, the West Valley Eagles, the Central Valley Bears, the East Valley Knights, the Riverside Rams. The fact you don’t even know an answer to the question like [naming all the Spokane Valley High School Mascots] means you don’t even know the district. How can you represent the district if you don’t even know it? —Matt Shea
• “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 the Creation. And we must continue to understand where we are. And we stand between the mountain and the ant, somewhere and there only, as part of the Creation.” —Oren Lyons
• “You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don’t hold onto the old man, the world; don’t refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: ‘The world is passing away; the world is losing its grip; the world is short of breath. Don’t fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.’ —Saint Augustine
• “Now I know what a piece of bacon feels like when it is suddenly picked out of the pan on a fork and put back on the shelf!” “No you don’t!” he heard Dori answering, “because the bacon knows that it will get back in the pan sooner or later; and it is to be hoped we shan’t. Also eagles aren’t forks! —J. R. R. Tolkien
• “Yeah, I had it all mapped out actually. Seriously. I wrote it down. I said, ‘When I’m the head coach of the Eagles, I’m going to make sure I get that guy on my team.’ And then guy next to me was like, ‘You’re only the offensive coordinator at New Hampshire.’ I said, ‘Don’t worry about it. Minor details. But it’s going to work.’ —Chip Kelly
• “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
• “I don’t know if I was ever called out, but I definitely have been told my chest hair gets super long. I don’t like it at all, so I definitely shave my chest a bunch. I have a really nice, huge eagle on my whole chest, with the words “Strength” and “Honor” and “Sanctimony” around it, so I like to keep that clean and clear.” —Ryan Sheckler
• “Cats do what cats do, ducks do what ducks do, and eagles do what eagles, do. If you take a duck and ask it to do an eagles’ job, shame on you. As a leader, your job is to help your ducks to become better ducks and your eagles better eagles – to put individuals in the right places and help them reach their potential.” —John C. Maxwell
• “No, my first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got. I wish that I only would have done the SLAYER eagle and not the dragons ´coz I like tribals that stand out from a distance. Like you could be a snowblind in the concert and you are still gonna see it. That´s why I like about it.” —Kerry King
• “Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle’s proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.” —Hugh Walpole
• “If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.” —Frederick Douglass
• “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
• “So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya’s name because it was the first that came to mind, because in that moment she didn’t want to get expelled and she couldn’t think past that moment. She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she’d been scared of being paralyzed by fear again. ~Miles/Pudge on Alaska, pg 120-121.” —John Green
• “It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto. We see a great ship swims as well as a small cork, and an eagle flies in the air as well as a little gnat. ‘Tis likely enough that there may be means invented of journeying to the Moon; and how happy they shall be that are first successful in this attempt.” —John Wilkins
• “To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough of the eagle in my character to make a direct flight to the loftiest altitudes in the social world; and I certainly never endeavored to reach those heights by using the creeping powers of the reptile, who in ascending, generally chooses the dirtiest path, because it is the easiest.” —Humphry Davy
• “There are believers who by God’s grace, have climbed the mountains of full assurance and near communion, their place is with the eagle in his eyrie, high aloft; they are like the strong mountaineer, who has trodden the virgin snow, who has breathed the fresh, free air of the Alpine regions, and therefore his sinews are braced, and his limbs are vigorous; these are they who do great exploits, being mighty men, men of renown.” —Charles Spurgeon
• “How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the Earth is sacred to my people, every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clear and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people.” —Chief Seattle
• “I think I did enough to make it. I think I made it as hard as possible for them to cut me by showing them what I can do. I think it’s going to come down to numbers. I’m just going to wait, pray and hope it’s God’s will that I’m going to be on the Eagles. My first goal was to make this squad but if not, hopefully another team saw what I did and will want me.” —Jeremy Thornburg
• “Golden eagles dont mate with bald eagles, deer dont mate with antelope, gray wolves dont mate with red wolves. Just look at domesticated animals, at mongrel dogs, and mixed breed horses, and youll know the Great Mystery didn`t intend them to be that way. We weakened the species and introduced disease by mixing what should be kept seperate. Among humans, intermarriage weakens the respect people have for themselves and for their traditions. It undermines clarity of spirit and mind.” —Russell Means
• “I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America… He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.” —Benjamin Franklin
• “The Democrats talked about putting people first. Well, they put people first unless you happen to be a spotted owl or a giant garter snake or some other endangered species and then that seems to have priority. Obviously, you take the bald eagle and things of that sort, of course you’re going to make sure that they are saved and that they can live and you’re going to take every precaution that you can. But others – we just need a little flexibility.” —Dan Quayle
• “Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages… a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn’t be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.” —Umberto Eco
• “To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, ‘Look at my two noble friends — they are dumb, but they are loyal.’ I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant.” —Beryl Markham
• “If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me? —Isak Dinesen
• “And yes, Percy, of course they are now in our United States. Look at your symbol, the eagle of Zeus. Look at the statue of Prometheus in Rockefeller Center, the Greek facades of our government buildings in Washington. I defy you to find any American city where the Olympians are not prominently displayed, in multiple places. Like it or not-and believe me, plenty of people weren’t much found of Rome, either-America is now the heart of the flame. It is the great power of the West. And so Olympus is here. And we are here.” —Rick Riordan
• “Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn’t know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That’s what gave her such power over us. The doctor took her into a room with a desk at the end of the hall, and from under the closed door a slab of brilliance radiated as if, by some stupendous process, diamonds were being incinerated in there. What a pair of lungs! She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it! I’ve gone looking for that feeling everywhere.” —Denis Johnson
• “Percy and Reyna occupied matching praters’ chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape. “The camp is safe,” Octavian continued.” I’ll be the first to congratulate our heroes for bringing back the legion’s eagle and so much Imperial gold! Truly we have been blessed with good fortune. But why do more? Why tempt fate?” “I’m glad you asked.” Percy stood, taking the question as an opening. Octavian stammered,” I wasn’t–” “–Part of the quest,” Percy said. “Yes I know. And your’e wise to let me explain, since I was.” —Rick Riordan
• “I’m gonna say it one more time. We are Georgia Southern. Our colors are blue and white. We call ourselves the Bald Eagles. We call our offense the Georgia Power Companyand that’s a terrific name for an offense. Our snap count is ‘rate, hike.’ We practice on the banks of Beautiful Eagle Creek and that’s in Statesboro, Georgia-the gnat capital of America. Our weekends begin on Thursday. The co-eds outnumber the men 3 to 2. They’re all good looking and they’re all rich. And folks, you just can’t beat that and you just can’t beat Georgia Southern. And you ain’t seen nothin yet! —Erk Russell
• “The very first thing the President [Truman] did was to show me the new Presidential Seal, which he had just redesigned. He explained, ‘The seal has to go everywhere the President goes. It must be displayed upon the lectern when he speaks. The eagle used to face the arrows but I have re-designed it so that it now faces the olive branches … what do you think?’ I said, ‘Mr. President, with the greatest respect, I would prefer the American eagle’s neck to be on a swivel so that it could face the olive branches or the arrows, as the occasion might demand.’ —Winston Churchill
• “I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed there. In the fall his erstwhile companions passed overhead and his first impulse was to rise and join them, but he had fed too well and could rise no higher than the eaves of the barn. The day came when his old fellow travelers could pass overhead without his even hearing their call. I have seen men and women who once mounted up with wings like eagles but are now content to live in the barnyard of this world.” —Vance Havner
• “An oak tree and a rosebush grew, Young and green together, Talking the talk of growing things- Wind and water and weather. And while the rosebush sweetly bloomed the oak tree grew so high that now it spoke of newer things- Eagles, mountain peaks and sky. “I guess you think you’re pretty great,” The rose was heard to cry, Screaming as loud as it possibly could To the treetop in the sky. “And now you have no time for flower talk, Now that you’ve grown so tall.” “It’s not so much that I’ve grown,” said the tree, “It’s just that you’ve stayed so small.” —Shel Silverstein