(196 quotes found)
“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
“Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.”
Elizabeth Bowen
“We may talk as we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in the field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms”
Abraham Cowley
“The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.”
Sidney Sheldon
“Aim high! It is no harder on your gun to shoot the feathers off an eagle than to shoot the fur off a skunk”
Troy Moore
“You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.”
William James
“Eagles do not beget Doves.”
Motto
“As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: / So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.”
Bible
“The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.”
Benito Mussolini
“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
