Top 100 An Eagle Quotes
#1. Hark to the sky of a seagull!
He cries because he's not an eagle.
Oh, what if you were you silly he-gull?
What would you say to your she-gull?
Ogden Nash
#3. 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
#4. You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.
Patricia Briggs
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#9. 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
#10. Hens embarrass me; owls disturb me; if I am with an eagle I always pretend that I am not with an eagle; and so on down to swallows at twilight who scare the hell out of me. But pigeons have absolutely no effect on me.
James Thurber
#12. Elinor Lipman tweets like a nightingale with an eagle eye.
Cathleen Schine
#13. God Gave Us Wings to soar like an eagle rather than flutter around like a chicken.
Connie Rankin
#14. In the third month, the sun rising, the Boar and the Leopard on the field of Mars to fight; The tired Leopard raises its eye to the heavens, sees an eagle playing around the sun.
Nostradamus
#16. 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
#17. I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for 'Serena.'
Ron Rash
#18. An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed myself as an eagle among the children of men, soaring on high, and looking down with pity and contempt on the grovelling creatures below.
James Hogg
#19. 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.
A.O. Scott
#20. At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture.
Vance Havner
#21. 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
#22. You too are an exile, I thought. You morn for the broad open steppes where you have room to spread your icy wings. Here you feel stifled and constricted, like an eagle that cries and beats against the bars of its iron cage.
Mikhail Lermontov
#23. Fly, on your way, like an eagle / Fly as high as the Sun.
Bruce Dickinson
#24. God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus.
John Piper
#25. In a pine tree behind me, an eagle waits out the rain, hunched into himself, brooding. Crows squabble, a murder chasing a raven. Seals cruise the lines of fishing nets bobbing in the water, hoping for an easy meal, the tender bellies of salmon.
Eden Robinson
#26. A fish is a genius in water.
An eagle is a genius in air.
A fox is a genius on land.
A sage is a genius in life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#27. 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
#28. An eagle uses the negative energy of a storm to fly even higher.
Eric Thomas
#29. 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
#30. 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.
Alexandre Dumas
#32. Oh. Sure. It makes perfect sense. Zane is a wolf because his father is an eagle.
C.J. Milbrandt
#33. It's a curious thing with George. With his glasses off, his eyes looked small and weak - blinky and a bit baffled, like an unintelligent sheep that's taken a wrong turn. But when he put them on again, they went all sharp and steely, more like the eyes of an eagle that eats dumb sheep for breakfast.
Jonathan Stroud
#34. A powerful combination to ensure success is having the vision of an eagle and the heart of a lion.
Robert G. Allen
#35. That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioles.
William Shakespeare
#36. A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. This time he had no choice but to look into her eyes. He did not look away. It was the bright fierce gaze that she remembered so vividly from their first meeting. He'd reminded her of an eagle, the Castellan of Amyth
Michelle Frost
#40. A person becomes great not by sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. A crow does not become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building.
Chanakya
#41. The world may indeed be evil and ugly, I thought defiantly, it may be soiled with sin, but I also knew that when a man lifts his soul up to the vaults of heaven, reaching seraphic heights with the power of his voice, he becomes an eagle soaring, an instrument of the Holy Ghost
Adriana Koulias
#42. Like an eagle, dude. Like a freaking bald-assed eagle.
Victoria Scott
#43. Be like an eagle; never let storms incapacitate you, soar higher instead.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#44. You will never see an eagle of distinction flying low with pigeons of mediocrity.
Onyi Anyado
#45. I loved practical jokes. I loved being goofy on the playground, and I loved doing silly cartoons, but I was not this subversive little delinquent. I am an Eagle Scout, after all.
Steve Breen
#46. Ambition gripped Brambleclaw like an eagle's talons. Hard as it was to admit it, he knew that he wanted to be deputy, and then leader, of his Clan. Was this what Tigerstar had felt? he wondered.
Erin Hunter
#47. A field of scarlet with nine hanged men in black and six yellow daggers in the upper left and lower right quadrants, respectively, while the upper right quandrant featured a shattered skull and the lower left boasted a bird astride a severed head. It might have been a raven. Or an eagle.
Glen Cook
#48. 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
#49. In order to soar like an eagle one has to be bold like a lion.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#50. 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
#52. 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
#53. A cock should always know his limits and never have his eyes on the big heights like an eagle!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#55. Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, overly educated and excessively rational, knowing right from wrong and fancy from fact, woke in a nest of marten and fox pelts to the sight of an eagle circling overhead, and saw at once that it could not be far to Paradise.
Sara Donati
#56. Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle ... The music causes me to dream of fabulous empires, filled with fabulous sins.
Hector Berlioz
#57. Who was this criminal mastermind behind Silk Road? Not at all whom you would expect. Ross Ulbricht was the kind of kid any parent would be proud of, an Eagle Scout from Austin, Texas, who had earned a master's degree in science and engineering.
Marc Goodman
#58. He imagined forgiveness was like flying, that it made you soar. He imagined that it looked like an eagle, a silver bolt in the sky, that it was pure light.
Christos Tsiolkas
#59. I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers and i have been circling for a thousand years. And I still dont know if I am an eagle or a storm or a great song.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#60. If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.
Jamie Foxx
#61. 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
#62. Flutter like a hummingbird,
Dive like an eagle,
Ain't no bird that's my equal.
- Twilight
Kathryn Lasky
#63. The world, it seems, does not much care anymore if you are an Eagle Scout, or even a Tenderfoot. It's all about how many "followers" you have, the perfection of your spray-tanned abs; whether you had the genius to sell a start-up company that hasn't produced a single viable product.
Nickolas Butler
#64. 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
#66. There's only one way to become an eagle, and that's to be born an eagle.
Shirley Corder
#67. The last time I played golf with President Ford he hit a birdie. And an eagle, a moose, an elk, an aardvark ...
Bob Hope
#68. The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.
Shane Claiborne
#69. When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
William Blake
#70. Thou art an eagle, thou doest belong to the sky and not to the earth, stretch forth thy wings and fly.
Paul H. Dunn
#71. 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
#72. You can put wings on a pig, but that doesn't make it an eagle.
Bill Clinton
#73. Some run the cliffs, and set upon an eagle's wings. Others mire in the den, and once within, can never leave again.
Chris Galford
#74. 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
#75. 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 constantly pull you down; resist it and fly at the heights like an eagle!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#76. 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
#77. You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in his eyrie at night!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#78. Wear yourself out to get rich; stop giving your attention to it. 5 As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.
Anonymous
#79. 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 maiden.
Marilynne Robinson
#80. You make a mystery of playing political love.
I could kill for you. I'd bring you an eagle stuffed
with finches. It's pouch growing large and groaning
in your palm. A cliff of umbrellas and memory
shaping your every move.
Paige Taggart
#81. Do not underestimate the human being, who sometimes appears so simple. Even with sight as sharp as an eagle, a mind as sharp as a razor, senses more powerful than gods, hearing that can catch the music and the lamentations of life, your knowledge of humanity will never be total.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#83. Once I was a lamb, playing in a green field. Then the wolves came. Now I am an eagle and I fly in a different universe.
David Gemmell
#84. 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
#85. America is still an eagle, and she's ready to soar again.
Ronald Reagan
#86. Listening to him play was like discovering an eagle in the wild. It was tumblingly bewitching. She could feel and hear genius she knew it.
Debra Anastasia
#87. In the end, a lack of compatibility is what ruins relationships. You can't force someone to be an eagle when they are a duck. Nobody wants to fly solo. Dreams were meant to be shared together.
Shannon L. Alder
#88. Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they of
iron or of gold.
Henrik Ibsen
#91. Don't look down, it's an impossible view; Fly like an eagle whatever you do
Mos Def
#92. Being raised as an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, The Mormons, I became an Eagle scout, and after graduating high school, I went on a full-time church mission to the West Indies for 2 years.
Shay Carl
#93. Our power of perseverance is as that of an eagle. We soar above our challengers.
Ellen J. Barrier
#94. 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
#95. Dreamers have sharp ears like spear and sharp eyes like an eagle.
Euginia Herlihy
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
