Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Vaughan

We may put too high a premium on speech from platform and pulpit, at the bar and in the legislative hall, and pay dear for the whistle of our endless harangues. England and especially Germany, are less loquacious, and attend more to business. We let the eagle, and perhaps too often the peacock, scream.

Bill Vaughan

The eagle may soar; beavers build dams.

Sean Payton

I worked with Joe at the Eagles and the one thing you can say is that his players always excel.

Charles Spurgeon

To pray is to mount on eagle's wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth.

Carl Sandburg

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar...

Carl Sandburg

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

Eddie Vedder

I remember back in 1994 when the Eagles charged more than $100 for tickets. They said, 'We ain't Pearl Jam.' That's back when records were selling and the Eagles had sold just about as many as anyone on the planet. And years later we're still charging less than them.

Brian Miller

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

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.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.

Bill Shankly

I always look in the Sunday paper to see where Everton are in the league - starting, of course, from the bottom up.

Carl Rogers

One of the most satisfying experiences I know is fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate a sunset. When I look at a sunset... I don't find myself saying, 'Soften the orange a little more on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple along the base, and use a little more pink in the cloud color...' I don't try to control a sunset. I watch it with awe as it unfolds.

Carl Rogers

People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.

Carl Sagan

If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?

Alice Munro

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Alan Perlis

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

Jack Hanna

Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

George W. Bush

I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.

Horace

Hatched in the same nest.

John Heywood

It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.

Quentin Tarantino

Then they'd [Nazi] make movies against England, you know, in the same way, to help, you know, feather their nest for what they - their aggressions.

Robert Jordan

To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.

Ronald Reagan

Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.