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Eagle Quotes

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.

– John O’Donohue

A Blessing for One who Holds Power. To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings (Benedictus in Europe).

I am Eagle! I am Eagle!

– Gherman Titov

The eagle suffers little birds to sing.

– William Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus, Act 4, Scene 4.

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.

– Helen Keller

If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.

– Jamie Foxx

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

– Carl Sandburg

An ancient Scythian nomad skeleton buried with an eagle was reportedly excavated near Aktobe Gorge, Kazakhstan. Ancient petroglyphs in the Altai region depict eagle hunters, and inscribed Chinese stone reliefs show eagles perched on the arms of hunters in tunics, trousers, and boots, identified as northern nomads (1st to 2nd century A.D.).

– Adrienne Mayor

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

– Neil Armstrong

I was only 8 years old on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, 38-year-old commander of ‘Apollo 11,’ descended the cramped lunar module Eagle’s ladder with hefty backpack and bulky spacesuit to become the first human on the moon.

– Douglas Brinkley

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

– Elizabeth Bowen

The Eagle has landed.

– Neil Armstrong

My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got.

– Kerry King

You know, I’m an eagle, flying around in the mountains.

– Link Wray

Don’t quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.

– Ken Blanchard

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.

– Michael Moore

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

– Ron Rash

Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to bulldoze the spot where Neil Armstrong stepped off the Eagle lander. But even innocent visits could be damaging.

– Seth Shostak

I had a Dan Fouts Nike poster with ‘The Bomb Squad’ on my wall as a kid. I was also a huge Larry Bird fan. One of my proudest art achievements is a papier-mache eagle decked out head-to-toe in Celtics gear.

– Timothy Olyphant

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

– William J. Clinton

I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He’s got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you.

– Wes Anderson

American Eagle clothing is stylish, flattering and all about embracing your individuality.

– Shay Mitchell

I will be the Thai equivalent of Eddie the Eagle.

– Vanessa Mae

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

– William Henry Hudson

I’m afraid Eddie the Eagle was before my time. All I know is that his glasses were three times thicker than mine, but I can jump three times further than he did.

– Simon Ammann

I loved practical jokes. I loved being goofy on the playground, and I loved doing silly cartoons, but I was not this subversive little delinquent. I am an Eagle Scout, after all.

– Steve Breen