Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Vaughan

We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.

Bill Vaughan

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

William Shakespeare

But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind.

Sean Payton

I worked with Joe at the Eagles and the one thing you can say is that his players always excel.

Chip Kelly

I'm not going to mortgage the Eagles' future for Marcus Mariota.

Chinua Achebe

Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

Chanakya

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.

English 16th Century Proverbs

Where the carcase is, there shall the eagles be gathered together.

Bill Moyers

I've always thought the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The right wing would see to it that economic interests had their legitimate concerns addressed. The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it's no longer an eagle and it's going to crash.

Arsenio Hall

If God wanted us high, He would have given us wings.

Caitlin Kittredge

Crows don’t take from you,” Dean said. “They give your soul wings.

Carlos Santana

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

Aaron Sorkin

It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Alan Jay Lerner

I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.

Chris Carmack

In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.

China Mieville

The reason that I like SF and fantasy and horror is that to me it's the pulp wing of surrealism. That's the aesthetic of undermining and creative alienation that I really go for.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,"You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!

Augusten Burroughs

And I began to let him go. Hour by hour. Days into months. It was a physical sensation, like letting out the string of a kite. Except that the string was coming from my center.

Alan Cohen

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

Kate Bush

Come up and be a kite, On a diamond flight!

Horace

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

David Benioff

I've never flown a kite.

Leonard Cohen

a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.