Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edgar Allan Poe

The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,--a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion.

Eddie Vedder

I remember back in 1994 when the Eagles charged more than $100 for tickets. They said, 'We ain't Pearl Jam.' That's back when records were selling and the Eagles had sold just about as many as anyone on the planet. And years later we're still charging less than them.

Eagles we see fly alone; and they are but sheep which always herd together

We found that these guys are down-to-earth and have the same struggles you and I have. I'll still root for my favorite teams. I'll still root for the Eagles on Monday night. But when you do this, you're reminded that these guys are more than just a uniform. They're people.

Jason Mraz

Tonight, Not Again: Jason Mraz Live at the Eagles Ballroom.

Douglas Coupland

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle.

Alexander McQueen

Birds in flight fascinate me. I admire eagles and falcons. I’m inspired by a feather but also its color, its graphics, its weightlessness and its engineering. It’s so elaborate. In fact I try and transpose the beauty of a bird to women.

E. O. Wilson

We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.

Don Henley

The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.

David Mamet

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

William Shakespeare

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

Talib Kweli

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

Russ Wilcox

Essence of newspaper is the large size. You are a reader you're an eagle flying over the desert, you're scanning. You see the rabbit and you zoom down and you grab it. That just happens naturally in a size that fits very well with how the human body works. Got to have a large display and it has to be portable.

Ron Rash

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

Vanessa Mae

I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.

Steven Adler

If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll

Meredith Brooks

The Eagles, let's face it, they were a pretty cool group, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie. I had this really eclectic background in music.

Michael Moore

I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me.

John Webster

Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together.

Terrell Owens

I don't have to play for the Eagles.

Shay Mitchell

I'm a longtime fan of American Eagle, so when they approached me about joining their 'Live Your Life' campaign, it already felt like an organic fit.

Alexandre Dumas

I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.

Jean Rhys

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.

Robert Allenby

I got away to a good start, eagle on the first is good,

He was a typical Eagle Scout that did his job properly. We go way back.

Jim Elliot

Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory, they are the most susceptible to being discouraged.

George Thorogood

I didn't live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles.

Frederick Douglass

If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all nations, kindreds [sic] tongues and peoples; and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.

Helen Keller

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.

Glenn Frey

Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.

I said, 'If I make an eagle putt, I'm going to be in the lead.

Annika Sorenstam

That eagle putt got me going on the front, and I think my solid back nine was the key,