Eagles Wings Quotes

• You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.

  Tom Petty

  Education, Eagles, Wings

  Song: Rhino Skin

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• And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

  Alexander Pope

  Eagles, Wings, Gold

  Alexander Pope (1867). “Poetical Works, with Life of the Author and Notes”, p.452

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• There's a lust in man, no charm can tame, of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame.

  Juvenal

  Men, Eagles, Lust

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• You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

  William J. Clinton

  Pigs, Eagles, Wings

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1187, Best Books on

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• Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

  Douglas Coupland

  Eagles, Seagull, Hairdos

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• Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

  John Dryden

  Stupid, Tired, Eagles

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden now first collected ...”, p.344

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• Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Greatness, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.26, Publishdrive

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• So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.

  Lord Byron

  Heart, Clouds, Eagles

  George Gordon Byron, “English Bards And Scotch Reviewers: A Satire”

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• September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001

  Aberjhani

  Angel, Eagles, Wings

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• It is a confession that we do not have such a prodigious head as is required to answer the question what is happening, that we cannot get on top of what is happening, that we are stuck in the middle of it, in medias res, inter-esse, amazing and bewildered. We cannot soar over what is happening with philosophy's eagle-wings. What's happening has clipped our wings.

  John D. Caputo

  Philosophy, Eagles, Wings

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• Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Eagles, Wings

  Benjamin Disraeli (1853). “The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition”, p.80

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• The ignorant hath an Eagles wings, and an Owles eyes.
  [The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes.]

  George Herbert

  Eye, Eagles, Wings

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.319

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