majestic bird Quotes

When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!

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

This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.

I know he'd be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.

The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

I like owls. I admire their intransigent spirit. I have respected them deeply ever since I met a baby owl in a wood, when it fell over dead, apparently from sheer temper, because I dared to approach it. It defied me first, and then died. I have never forgotten the horror and shame I experienced when that soft fluffy thing (towards which I had nothing but the most humanitarian motives) fell dead from rage at my feet.

If I were an animal, I'd probably be a bald eagle, since I'm already bald and I love to fish. But I'd probably be a shaky-ass eagle because I'm afraid of flying.

Over this country, when the giant Eagle flings the shadow of his wing, the land is darkened. So compact is it that the wing covers all its extent in one pause of the flight. The sea breaks on the pale line of the shore; to the Eagle's proud glance waves run in to the foot of the hills that are like rocks planted in green water.