Eagle Quotes and Quotations G – S
Bird quotes about and referencing eagles
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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