Eagles Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Eagles.
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“Eagle-bone whistle”
“And little eagles wave their wings in gold.”
“He was the sultan of the sky, and earth
Paid tribute to his eyry.”
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“Wheresoever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together.”
“But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on,
Leaving no track behind.”
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“The eagle suffers little birds to sing,
And is not careful what they mean thereby.”
“The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour,
Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.”
“Around, around, in ceaseless circles wheeling
With clangs of wings and scream, the Eagle sailed”
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“The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad.”
“I saw Jove's bird, the Roman eagle, wing'd
From the spungy south to this part of the west,
There vanish'd in the sunbeams.”
“King of the peak and glacier,
King of the cold, white scalps,
He lifts his head at that close tread,
The eagle of the Alps.”
“And thus among these rocks he lived,
Through summer heat and winter snow:
The Eagle, he was lord above,
And Rob was lord below.”
“The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes.
We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.”
“That eagle's fate and mine are one,
Which on the shaft that made him die
Espied a feather of his own,
Wherewith he wont to soar so high.”
“Tho' he inherit
Nor the pride, nor ample pinion,
That the Theban eagle bear,
Sailing with supreme dominion
Thro' the azure deep of air.”
“Bird of the broad and sweeping wing,
Thy home is high in heaven,
Where wide the storms their banners fling,
And the tempest clouds are driven.”
“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.”