Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Sheen

You can't criticize Bob Dylan's singing. You have to respect Billy Joel as a brilliant poet. You can't tell me there's a better rock band ever than Led Zeppelin. And if you speak during the Eagles' "Last Resort," we're done. I'm just asking for seven minutes. This stuff really matters, you know.

Unlike the northern states, eagles that reside in New Jersey are pretty much year-round residents ? they don't migrate out because we always have open water.

William Shakespeare

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

John O'Donohue

As high over the mountains the eagle spreads its wings, may your perspective be larger than the view from the foothills. When the way is flat and dull in times of gray endurance, may your imagination continue to evoke horizons.

Khalil Gibran

And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun.

Lloyd Bentsen

I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.

Eric Thomas

An eagle uses the negative energy of a storm to fly even higher.

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.

Sid Vicious

(During a gig on their US tour) We are better than anyone, ain't we? Except for the Eagles, the Eagles are better than us.

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

Jon Runyan

A lot of people need a right tackle. And, by the looks of it, the Eagles are going to need one. I don't know what they're going to do. I haven't heard from them.

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.

Jack White

The Eagle does not escape the storm. The Eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on the winds that bring the storm.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Now I know what a piece of bacon feels like when it is suddenly picked out of the pan on a fork and put back on the shelf!" "No you don't!" he heard Dori answering, "because the bacon knows that it will get back in the pan sooner or later; and it is to be hoped we shan't. Also eagles aren't forks!

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.

Jean Rhys

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad...

Gregory Colbert

Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express their relationship with nature. Ashes and Snow is a 21st-century bestiary filled with species from around the world. Nature’s orchestra includes not just Homo sapiens but elephants, whales, manatees, eagles, cheetahs, orangutans, and many others.

David Geffen

So The Eagles had to find another drummer.

That's not a pretty sight, because you never know the extent of the injuries,'' Eagles veteran cornerback Troy Vincent said.

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.

Don Henley

I'm sure The Eagles will go into the studio eventually, probably in the fall after we get back and get rested from the European tour.

Ernest Cline

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.

Myles Munroe

Don't be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God's altitude for your life.

George Herbert

But who does hawk at eagles with a dove?

Gene Fowler

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

Friedrich Nietzsche

On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!

Hubert H. Humphrey

You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles

Horace

Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.

Glenn Frey

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

Walter Jones

It's a great feeling. It's great to be on the other side. The Philadelphia Eagles have been to the big games, and that's where we're trying to get to. This was another stepping stone to where we're trying to go.

Lou Reed

But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.