Top 1200 Eagles Wings Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I'm not going to mortgage the Eagles' future for Marcus Mariota.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

But who does hawk at eagles with a dove?

So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We're all going to heaven, but everybody's not going to get their wings. Some people are just going to be regular angels. Doing cleanup, janitor work. In heaven, I'm going to sit on the couch with Oprah.

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

I don't have to play for the Eagles.

Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is rewarded, not punished. The Wright Brothers did not have their wings melt when they flew too high. Perhaps their wings were more soundly built than those of Icarus.

You travel, and there's Eagles fans everywhere.

The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it.

You cannot soar with the eagles as long as you hang out with the turkeys.

Baby eagles can never soar under their family's wing.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

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.

Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch upon which to perch and rest their wings they might even come to resent having those wings. True freedom... true freedom may be having somewhere to return to.

The 'Crue' is not the hardest band to cover. There are no harmonies like the Eagles.

I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows.

Without feathers it isn't easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers. [Lat., Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas non habent.] [Alt., Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.]

I've got my old favorites like The Eagles and Bon Jovi.

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

Wine transforms moles into eagles.

If you want to fly with the eagles you can't hang out with the crows.

Sometimes you go into Nando's, and you want to tuck into the chicken wings with your fingers, but you know someone is watching you, so you don't. I'm sat there thinking, 'If these chicken wings were at home, they would get demolished!' But I've got to use a knife and fork, and you end up saying: 'Could I get a bag to take these home, please?'

As industry's tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor's leaders in the Eighties are getting their wings clipped. Not because of any class-related antagonism, but because any excess, ultimately, is its own undoing.

I do love the Eagles' fans.

They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel," she said. "They say they're where your wings will grow again one day.

I am a believer in angels, though not the picture-book kind with wings and harps. Such angelic accoutrements seem as nonsensical to me as devils sporting horns and carrying pitchforks. To me, angel wings are merely symbolic of their role as divine messengers.

If you want to fly with eagles, stop swimming with ducks.

Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.

His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that of all the things the angel had told him, nothing was true. That he wasn't even an angel, just a liar with wings.

Tell me why the caged bird nutters against its prison bars, and I will tell you why the soul sickens of earthliness. The bird has wings, and wings were made to cleave the air, and soar in freedom in the sun. The soul is immortal it cannot feed upon husks.

Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.

If you want to fly with the eagles, don’t swim with the ducks!

kindnesses have wings and roots ... wings that never droop, and roots that never die.

Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time.

Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove.

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

I still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.

Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew.

I never fully understand all the drama and machinations within the Eagles.

If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

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

The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm, real or imaginary, threatened their precious brood. They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.

I have been very blessed to be given the opportunity to play for Super Eagles.

It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

Eagles don't catch flies.

Possibilities are like the wings of birds; they allow man to soar and to climb to the heavens. And facts are like the atmosphere against which those wings must beat, and without which the soaring bird will surely plummet back to earth.

I want manned spaceflight, not just back to the Moon, but beyond that. And I want my daughters and my son to have their own July 20, 1969, to remember. Apollo 11 didn't give us wings; it only showed us how far the wings we had would take us.

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus.

Leaders take eagles and teach them to fly in formation.

They were jet, those wings, as deep as the sky, as black as Eoduin's hair—no, blacker, for they were dull, unoiled. They gave off no sheen in the light, no gleam to the eye. They drank up the light and diminished it: they were wings of pure shadow.

Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still

I've been an Eagles fan since I was a little kid.

What is truth? What is falsehood? Whatever gives wings to men, whatever produces great works and great souls and lifts up a man's height above the earth - that's true. Whatever clips off man's wings - that's false.

It's hard to soar with the eagles when you're surrounded by turkeys.

The final flight make your last journey from this strange world soar for the heights where there is no more God has created your wings not to be dormant as long as you are alive you must try more and more to use your wings to show you're alive.

God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than that you cut your wings with your own hands and suffer your soul to crawl like an insect upon the earth?

I always wrote alone with the Eagles.

There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).

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

Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time.