Eagle Quotes

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. (Elizabeth Bowen)
When thou seest an Eagle, thou seest a portion of Genius; lift up thy head. View quote
William Blake
The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the crow. View quote
William Blake
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.' View quote
Aeschylus
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. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. View quote
Carl Sandburg
As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. View quote
Helen Keller
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. View quote
William Blake
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization. View quote
Frederick Reines
Like Lenin Comrade Stalin is a leader of a higher type. He is a mountain eagle, without fear in the fight, who boldly leads the bolshevik party on unexplored roads toward the total victory of Communism. (Anastas Mikoyan)
Swift blazing flag of the regiment, Eagle with crest of red and gold, These men were born to drill and die. Point for them the virtue of slaughter, Make plain to them the excellence of killing And a field where a thousand corpses lie. View quote
Stephen Crane
There are believers who by God's grace, have climbed the mountains of full assurance and near communion, their place is with the eagle in his eyrie, high aloft; they are like the strong mountaineer, who has trodden the virgin snow, who has breathed the fresh, free air of the Alpine regions, and therefore his sinews are braced, and his limbs are vigorous; these are they who do great exploits, being mighty men, men of renown. View quote
Charles Spurgeon
Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove. View quote
Ralph Ellison
Like a young eagle who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom, See their own feathers pluck'd to wing the dart Which rank corruption destines for their heart. View quote
Thomas Moore
Let them make their war. Whence come night and day? Whence will the eagle become gray? Whence is it that night is dark? Whence is it that the linnet is green? The ebullition of the sea, How is it not seen? View quote
Taliesin
It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some blood to suck. Capitalism used to be like an eagle, but now it's more like a vulture. It used to be strong enough to go and suck anybody's blood whether they were strong or not. But now it has become more cowardly, like the vulture, and it can only suck the blood of the helpless. As the nations of the world free themselves, the capitalism has less victims, less to suck, and it becomes weaker and weaker. It's only a matter of time in my opinion before it will collapse completely. View quote
Malcolm X
The Eagle, he was lord above, And Rob was lord below. View quote
William Wordsworth
Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water. View quote
Hugh Walpole
Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle. View quote
George Bancroft
The very first thing the President did was to show me the new Presidential Seal, which he had just redesigned. He explained, 'The seal has to go everywhere the President goes. It must be displayed upon the lectern when he speaks. The eagle used to face the arrows but I have re-designed it so that it now faces the olive branches ... what do you think?' I said, 'Mr. President, with the greatest respect, I would prefer the American eagle's neck to be on a swivel so that it could face the olive branches or the arrows, as the occasion might demand. (Winston Churchill)
I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun. View quote
Edward Abbey
Patriotism requires less and less of making the eagle scream, but more and more of making him think. View quote
Aldo Leopold
Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad... View quote
Jean Rhys
Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight. View quote
Kathryn Lasky