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Eagle Quotes and Quotations G – S
Bird quotes about and referencing eagles
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Eagle Quotes
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Her voice sounded like an eagle being goosed.
-Ralph Novak
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HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, a one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.
-Ambrose Bierce
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I can’t wait until we make an eagle.
-Chi Chi Rodriguez
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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
Short-toed Eagle: Eagles have extremely keen eyesight
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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 sharking and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respect.
-Benjamin Franklin
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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
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I’d like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and then maybe he’s flying along, low to the ground, and the fish pulls a worm out of the ground. Now that’s a documentary.
-Jack Handy
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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
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Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
-Bible
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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
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My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.
-Kerry King
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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
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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
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No need to teach an eagle to fly.
-Greek proverb
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O thou undaunted daughter of desires!
By all thy dower of lights and fires;
By all the eagle in thee, all the dove;
By all thy lives and deaths of love;
By thy large draughts of intellectual day.
-Richard Crashaw
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People expect the clergy to have the grace of a swan, the friendliness of a sparrow, the strength of an eagle and the night hours of an owl – and some people expect such a bird to live on the food of a canary.
-Edward Jeffrey
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Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
-Bible
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Spring One. Spring One. I am Eagle. I am Eagle. I can hear you very well. I feel excellent. My feeling is excellent.
-Gherman S. Titov
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Eagle Quotes and Quotations T – Z
Bird quotes about and referencing eagles
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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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Eagle Definition
Eagle Definition
Short-toed Eagle: Eagles have extremely keen eyesight
ea·gle
(the bird)
–noun
1.
any of several large, soaring birds of prey belonging to the hawk family Accipitridae, noted for their size, strength, and powers of flight and vision: formerly widespread in North America, eagles are mostly confined to alaska and a few isolated populations.
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