(196 quotes found)
“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”
Winston Churchill
“When you soar like an eagle, you attract the hunters.”
Milton S. Gould
“Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines”
John Benfield
“The world is grown so bad, that wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.Since every Jack became a gentleman,There's many a gentle person made a Jack.”
William Shakespeare
“Lone eagles, soaring in the clouds, fly with silent, peaceful poise,While turkeys, in their earth-bound crowds, fill the atmosphere with noise.”
William Arthur Ward
“I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and one that is broken, sad as a woman who is growing old.”
Jean Rhys
“You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.”
Bill Clinton
“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
“But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.”
Terry Pratchett
“The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the crow.”
William Blake
