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• Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

  Douglas Coupland

  Seagull, Hairdos, Good Hair

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• The eagle suffers little birds to sing.

  William Shakespeare

  Power, Bird, Suffering

  1592 Tamora to Saturninus.Titus Andronicus, act 4, sc.4, l.83-6.

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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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• I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.

  Aaron Tippin

  Stars, Grace, Stripes

  Song: Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly

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• The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Money, Gold, Print

  Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher (1977). “Abraham Lincoln, a Documentary Portrait Through His Speeches and Writings”, p.93, Stanford University Press

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• A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.

  Chanakya

  Greatness, Men, Crow

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• The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome.

  William Shakespeare

  Mean, Men, Rome

  1592 Tamora to Saturninus.Titus Andronicus, act 4, sc.4, l.83-6.

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• Leaders take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

  D. Wayne Calloway

  Leader, Teach, Formation

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• It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.

  Karen Armstrong

  Events, Matter, Enjoy

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• 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.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Night, Wings

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.108

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• Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Crow, Genius

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• 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.

  Jim Elliot

  Bird, Territory, Firsts

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• Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California.

  Glenn Frey

  Thinking, California, Bob

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• Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Fate, Destiny, Literature

  The House in Paris pt. 2, ch. 2 (1935)

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• You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: 'The world is passing away; the world is losing its grip; the world is short of breath. Don't fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.'

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Passing Away, World

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• Spring One. Spring One. I am Eagle. I am Eagle. I can hear you very well. I feel excellent. My feeling is excellent.

  Gherman Titov

  Moon, Star Gazing, Walking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". Message from Vostok II, www.imdb.com. August 1961.

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• Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Clever, Business

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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, Wings

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

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• Did you ever know that you're my hero, you're everything I wish I could be. I could fly higher than an eagle with you as the wind beneath my wings.

  Gary Morris

  Friendship, Hero, Wings

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• The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.

  William Shakespeare

  Wrens, World, Prey

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

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• The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.

  Don Henley

  Critics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Juvenal

  Men, Lust, Scandal

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• And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

  Alexander Pope

  Wings, Gold, Littles

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

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• I know that there are some people who are perpetually negative. I sincerely believe that if you want to fly with the eagles you cannot afford to walk with the turkeys. I will walk away from those people when they start to attack the vision.

  Phil Pringle

  Believe, Turkeys, People

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• 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.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Selfish, Men, Order

  The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)

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