Eagles Quotes - Page 16

• 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

  God, Christian, Stars

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.197, Harper Collins

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• The future does not belong to those who attack our Embassies and Consulates and kill our Ambassadors. The Angel of Death in the form of an American Bald Eagle will visit you and wreak havoc and destruction upon your existence.

  Allen West

  Angel, Visits You, Doe

  "Allen West Would Invoke ‘Angel Of Death’ At UN, He Says" By Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 25, 2012.

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• I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.

  Vanessa Mae

  Thai

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• The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.

  Mao Zedong

  Real, Hero, Past

  "Qinyuanchun (Snow)". Poem by Mao Zedong, 1945.

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• At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Spring, Men, Air

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• 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

  Men, Air, Wind

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• I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for Serena.

  Ron Rash

  Rattlesnakes, Hunts

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• 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

  Powerful, Simple, Sight

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1991). “This Earth of Mankind”, William Morrow

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• The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

  Anthony de Mello

  Selfish, Butterfly, Eggs

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.206, Image

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• Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

  William Blake

  Wisdom, Doe, Moles

  'The Book of Thel' (1789) plate i 'Thel's Motto'

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• The world would have you agree with its dismal dream of limitation. But the light would have you soar like the eagle of your sacred visions.

  Alan Cohen

  Dream, Light, Vision

  Alan Cohen (1993). “The Dragon Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Loving Fully, Living Freely”, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Music, Dream, Causes

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• . . . the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony and man - all belong to the same family. . . . The White Man must treat the beasts of this land as his brothers.

  Chief Seattle

  Brother, Horse, Equality

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• Rivers and mountains are beautiful and made heroes bow and compete to catch the girl- lovely earth. Yet the emperors Shih Huang and Wu Ti were barely able to write. The first emperors of the Tang and Sung dynasties were crude. Genghis Khan, man of his epoch and favored by heaven, knew only how to hunt the great eagle. They are all gone. Only today are we men of feeling.

  Mao Zedong

  Beautiful, Girl, Hero

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• Days, when the ball of our vision
  Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun;
  When the graps on the bow was decision,
  And arrow and hand and eye were one;
  When the Pleasures, like waves to a swimmer,
  Came heaving for rapture ahead! -
  Invoke them, they dwindle, they glimmer
  As lights over mounds of the dead.

  George Meredith

  Eye, Light, Hands

  George Meredith (1910). “The Works of George Meredith”

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• Golden eagles don`t mate with bald eagles, deer don`t mate with antelope, gray wolves don`t mate with red wolves. Just look at domesticated animals, at mongrel dogs, and mixed breed horses, and you`ll 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

  Dog, Horse, Animal

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• 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

  Fall, Government, May

  George Bancroft (1855). “History of the United States, from the discovery of the amarican continent”, p.8

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• We commute to computers
  Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors
  We survivalists, turned to consumers.

  Talib Kweli

  Hip Hop, Rumor, Spirit

  Song: Get By

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• 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

  Real, Europe, Waiting

  "Life of Ramakrishna". Book by Romain Rolland, 1929.

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• 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

  Art, Sky, Wings

  "Look at Your World".

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• You cannot soar with the eagles as long as you hang out with the turkeys.

  Joel Osteen

  Motivational, Turkeys, Long

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• 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

  War, Giants, Scream

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• 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

  Play, Two, Race

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• There are days when I swear I could fly like an eagle
  And dark desperate hours that nobody sees
  My arms stretched triumphant on top of the mountain
  My head in my hands down on my knees

  Stevie Nicks

  Dark, Hands, Mountain

  Song: Sometimes It's A Bitch

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• 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

  Elephants, Whales, Snow

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