Eagle Quotes and Quotations T – Z
Bird quotes about and referencing eagles
Eagle Quotes
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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
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The disease that racks and wastes thy limbs, and the sickness in thy heart, has flown as an eagle to a far distance, overcome by my charm.
-Atharva Veda
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The eagle does not catch flies.
-Proverb
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The eagle does not feed on flies.
-Turkish Proverb
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The eagle does not wage war against frogs.
-Italian Proverb
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The Eagle has landed.
-Neil Armstrong
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The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.
-Joseph S. Nye Jr.
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The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the crow.
-William Blake
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The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby.
-William Shakespeare
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The eagle was killed by an arrow made from its own feathers.
-Armenian Proverb
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The Eagle, he was lord above.
-William Wordsworth
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The feathers of a dead eagle would cover you all over.
-Gabonese Proverb
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The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.
-Bible
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The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow.
-Greek Proverb
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The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.
-Abraham Lincoln
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The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
-Bible
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The whole wide ether is the eagle’s way: The whole earth is a brave man’s fatherland.
-Euripides
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Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
-Bible
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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 star’d at the Pacific and all his men Look’d at each other with a wild surmise Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
-John Keats
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There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
-Bible
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
-Carl Sandburg
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There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
-Bible
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They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
-Bible
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Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
-Bible
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When you soar like an eagle, you attract the hunters.
-Milton S. Gould
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Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
-Bible
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You can best shoot an eagle with an arrow made from its own feathers.
-Russian Proverb
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You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
-Bill Clinton
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You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
-Henry Hudson
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You know, I’m an eagle, flying around in the mountains.
-Link Wray
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