Eagles quotes:

Send

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo. -- Douglas Coupland
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. -- E. F. Schumacher
The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time. -- Don Henley
The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill. -- Glenn Frey
The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends. -- Don Henley
Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean. -- Glenn Frey
Eagles don't flock, you have to find them one at a time. -- Ross Perot
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Eagles commonly fly alone. They are crows, daws, and starlings that flock together. -- John Webster
The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out. -- Benito Mussolini
As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House. -- Zakk Wylde
The Eagles and the Captain and Tennille ruled the airwaves, and we were the answer to it. -- Joey Ramone
We are better than anyone, ain't we? Except for the Eagles, the Eagles are better than us. -- Sid Vicious
I'm certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I'm quite proud of. -- Don Henley
Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California. -- Glenn Frey
Eagles rarely fail to catch their prey. They usually kill it quickly by breaking its neck with their powerful claws. -- Stephen Kinzer
It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles. -- Karen Armstrong
I grew up with another pretty darn good writer: Glenn Frey of the Eagles. We were very good friends, and we kind of studied it together. -- Bob Seger
I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past. -- Don Henley
If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money. -- Glenn Frey
I look at my career as a body of work, not just Queens of the Stone Age records. I'm in Eagles of Death Metal, I'm in Them Crooked Vultures; I make records with other people. -- Josh Homme
When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles and male bonding, but when the book came out, it was surprising to me that the mental health community embraced it. -- Matthew Quick
There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed. -- Shawn Colvin
If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll. -- Steven Adler
Eagles don't catch flies. -- Desiderius Erasmus
I don't have to play for the Eagles. -- Terrell Owens
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. -- Steven Wright
I'm not going to mortgage the Eagles' future for Marcus Mariota. -- Chip Kelly
I've got my old favorites like The Eagles and Bon Jovi. -- Niall Horan
I still hate [the Eagles]". There's levels of evil in it to me. -- Stephen Malkmus
I didn't live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles. -- George Thorogood
I've been to two concerts in the last 10 years.Bob Seger and the Eagles. -- Toby Keith
Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen. -- Henry Winter
I'd rather have my teeth drilled than listen to that awful song, 'Fly, Eagles Fly.' -- Chris Christie
The 'Crue' is not the hardest band to cover. There are no harmonies like the Eagles. -- Brian Miller
Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do. -- T. D. Jakes
In the early days, you would get skinheads, the Eagles and Black Sabbath playing the same show. -- Ozzy Osbourne
I can still sing most Eagles songs, even though I never bought a record and never liked the band. -- Craig Finn
The ignorant hath an Eagles wings, and an Owles eyes. [The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes.] -- George Herbert
The Eagles, let's face it, they were a pretty cool group, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie. I had this really eclectic background in music. -- Meredith Brooks
It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sing it."[On The Heart of the Matter, during the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over tour.] -- Don Henley
I have very fond memories of the Eagles from my experience with 'Invincible' and my college days in Philadelphia. But I am a Massachusetts girl and a Pats fan. -- Elizabeth Banks
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. -- Jim Elliot
I'm not a fan of the Eagles, but I've watched their documentary numerous times and everyone who's watched it with me has sung along to the songs, much to my dismay. -- Bill Hader
I was into jazz even when I was a kid. My parents would play Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, and Dixieland music. I loved The Monkees, The Beatles, The Eagles, and America. -- Page Hamilton
Tim Tebow may be back in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles. As you remember, he was thrown out of the league when he landed his gyrocopter on the White House lawn. -- David Letterman
I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably someone who could write and had a high voice. That was me. -- Timothy B. Schmit
While Bradshaw applauded McNabb for playing hurt, he offered this dose of reality for the Eagles If he doesn't stay healthy, it's over, ... What are you going to do You roll the dice. -- Terry Bradshaw
I think The Eagles single-handedly destroyed country music - well, now, country music has been killed by rap crossovers, so it's hard to say. Maybe we can just agree that money killed country music. -- John Doe
I could stand out front and sing Eagles songs that I sing in my set, but I think people enjoy watching me sing and play the drums. It seems to fascinate people. I don't know why. -- Don Henley
He's just jealous. You know what they say. Empty tin cans make the most noise, and he's an empty tin can. This game is between the Bears and the Eagles, not Ditka and Ryan. We all know who would win that one. Ditka, hands down. -- Mike Ditka
I think the Jets came in with a legitimate offer. At that point, I hadn't had one from the Eagles. I had to think, 'I've really got to work up here [in New York]? Do you really want to deal with that on a weekly basis? -- Jon Runyan
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. -- Eddie Vedder
If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll -- Steven Adler
And little eagles wave their wings in gold. -- Alexander Pope
It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. -- Sitting Bull
Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle. -- Ken Blanchard
Baby eagles can never soar under their family's wing. -- Liu Yang
Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. -- Elizabeth Bowen
You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains. -- Link Wray
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. -- Winston Churchill
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow -- William Blake
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. -- Sitting Bull
My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got. -- Kerry King
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
Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me. -- John Dryden
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
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die. -- William Harvey
Not all eagles can be trained, but those who take to life with a master display intense loyalty. Although they are not tethered, they always return after killing their prey. -- Stephen Kinzer
Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization. -- Frederick Reines
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. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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. -- Lloyd Bentsen
I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that's my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically. -- Taylor Hawkins
The records in the house I really remember were, well, Glen Campbell's 'Wichita Lineman' and 'Galveston.' Even as a kid, I knew these songs were glorious. My dad also had records by Merle Haggard, Charley Pride, Waylon Jennings, and then there was also the Eagles and Don Henley. Anything Texas, which includes Don Henley, was big. -- Keith Urban
The correct answer is the University Titans, the West Valley Eagles, the Central Valley Bears, the East Valley Knights, the Riverside Rams. The fact you don't even know an answer to the question like [naming all the Spokane Valley High School Mascots] means you don't even know the district. How can you represent the district if you don't even know it? -- Matt Shea
Wine transforms moles into eagles. -- Charles Baudelaire
Art still followed where Rome's eagles flew. -- Alexander Pope
Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove. -- Horace
I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows. -- Truman Capote
But who does hawk at eagles with a dove? -- George Herbert
Leaders take eagles and teach them to fly in formation. -- D. Wayne Calloway
The eagles ruled the air as the tribes ruled the land. -- Conn Iggulden
If you want to fly with eagles, stop swimming with ducks. -- T. Harv Eker
If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles. -- Brian Tracy
It's hard to soar with the eagles when you're surrounded by turkeys. -- Adam Sandler
You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles -- Hubert H. Humphrey
If you want to fly with the eagles, don't swim with the ducks! -- T. Harv Eker
Leaders are like eagles... they don't flock. You'll find them one at a time. -- Knute Rockne
If you want to fly with the eagles you can't hang out with the crows. -- Brock Lesnar
You cannot soar with the eagles as long as you hang out with the turkeys. -- Joel Osteen
You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world. -- Tom Petty
One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows. -- Edith Roosevelt
The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. -- William Shakespeare
Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air. -- Francois Arago
Remarkable places are like the summits of rocks; eagles and reptiles only can get there. -- Suzanne Curchod
(after listening to people gripe and complain just smile and remember) Crows can't hang with eagles. -- Joel Osteen
Remain a witness to your emotions as if from a great distance an eagles eye view -- Rajneesh
An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold, whether it consists of guineas, sovereigns or eagles. -- Hans F. Sennholz
We commute to computers; Spirits stay mute while you eagles spread rumors. We survivalists, turned to consumers... -- Talib Kweli
--
Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they. -- William Cowper
Shoot eagles on the Jack Nicklaus course, Porsche with the triple exhaust, Seats soft like a midget's cough... -- Action Bronson
BogotÃ¡ seemed a cruel towering place, like an eagles' nest now inhabited by vultures and their dying prey. -- Paul Theroux
Heroes, classical heroes have the look of eagles, too. They're looking beyond the immediate problem and into the future. -- William Shatner
On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo. -- E. O. Wilson
I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior. -- Oren Lyons
The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you. -- Mao Zedong
Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover. -- Napoleon Hill
The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. -- Aesop
Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word. -- William Tyndale
Like two eagles soar as one upon the river of the wind with the promise of forever, we will take the past and learn how to begin. -- Pocahontas
Don't waste your time trying to turn ducks into eagles. Hire people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar. -- Jim Rohn
Men of genius are like eagles, they live on what they kill, while men of talents are like crows, they live on what has been killed for them. -- Josh Billings
Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights. -- Andy Andrews
Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs. -- Anton Chekhov
September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terrorâ??s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eaglesâ?? wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001 -- Aberjhani
The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove. -- Horace
I'll dig in into my days, having come here to live, not to visit. Grey is the price of neighboring with eagles, of knowing a mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen. -- Denise Levertov

Send