
As quoted in To Be Just Is to Love : Homilies for a Church Renewing (2001) by Walter J. Burghardt, p. 214
A collection of quotes on the topic of eagle, likeness, wing, man.
As quoted in To Be Just Is to Love : Homilies for a Church Renewing (2001) by Walter J. Burghardt, p. 214
Quoted in Vine Deloria, God Is Red: A Native View of Religion. Golden, Colo: Fulcrum Pub, 2003, cited to Virginia Armstrong, I have spoken; American history through the voices of the Indians. Chicago, Sage Books, 1971.
“There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake,
Or the way of a man with a maid”
The Long Trail http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/verse/volumeXI/longtrail.html, Stanza 5.
Other works
Context: There be triple ways to take, of the eagle or the snake,
Or the way of a man with a maid;
But the fairest way to me is a ship's upon the sea
In the heel of the North-East Trade.
Source: Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
New York Herald, October 15, 1900, quoted in A Pen Warmed Up In Hell:Mark Twain in Protest, edited by Frederick Anderson, Harper & Row, 1979
Sec. 250
The Gay Science (1882)
Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
About
Concepts
“Really, you have seen the old age of an eagle, as the saying is.”
Act III, scene 2, line 9 (520).
Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)
Then clap your wings, mount to heaven, and there laugh them to scorn, for ye have made your refuge God, and shall find a most secure abode.
"No. 17: Joseph Attacked by the Archers (Genesis 49:23–24, delivered on Sunday 1855-04-01)" pp.130
Sermons delivered in Exeter Hall, Strand, during the enlargement of New Park Street Chapel, Southmark (1855)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 18.
San Francisco Chronicle, September 24, 2012 http://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Lawrence-Ferlinghetti-s-indelible-image-3886925.php#page-2
“The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.”
Genius
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
Context: A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master.
"People say you are a genius. Are you?" he asked.
"You might say so." said the Master, none too modestly.
"And what makes one a genius?" "The ability to recognize." "Recognize what?"
"The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being."
Ante-Nicene Christian library: v. 3 p. 15
Address to the Greeks
“You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.”
Source: Dragon Blood
“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude”
“The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 39
“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”
“Flutter like a hummingbird,
Dive like an eagle,
Ain't no bird that's my equal.
- Twilight”
Source: The Capture
“Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren”
Source: The Complete Poems
“Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.”
Quote in 'Some Data on the Youth of M. E., As Told by Himself', in the View (April 1942); also quoted in Max Ernst and Alchemy (2001) by M. E. Warlick, p. 10
1936 - 1950
“The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.”
“Eagle,” p. 72
The Creator (2000), Sequence: “Thought and Flight”
"I Am a Rainworm", 1900, translated by J. Robbins, (J. Leftwich. Golden Peacock. Sci-Art, 1939, p. 83).
How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? (BBC Horizon, 2009)
“He [ Delacroix ] is an eagle, I am only a lark.”
as quoted in Corot, Gary Tinterow, Michael Pantazzi, Vincent Pomarède - Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France), National Gallery of Canada, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), 1996, p. 272 – quote 65
1860s
1860s, Our Composite Nationality (1869)
"How I Became a Socialist", New York Call (3 November 1912)
David Lloyd George, The Truth about the Peace Treaties. Volume I (London: Victor Gollancz, 1938), p. 252.
About
1840s, Past and Present (1843)
Solsbury Hill
Song lyrics, Peter Gabriel (I) (1977)
Recollections of Thomas R. Marshall: A Hoosier Salad (1925), Chapter V
Ode to Independence, strophe 1.
Vol. 3, ch. 1, p. 8
A History of the United States (1834-74)
Source: 1915 - 1916, 100 Aphorisms', Franz Marc (1915), p. 445
An exchange (March 4, 1946) with Harry S. Truman aboard the Presidential train in Washington, D.C.'s Union Station before journeying to Fulton, Missouri; as quoted in "The Genius and Wit of Winston Churchill" http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=825 by Robin Lawson.
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Source: The Capture (2003), Chapter Twenty-seven: "Horten se's Eagles", pp. 215–216
General Arthur Wellesley, p. 267
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Eagle (1981)
The Grave of Bonaparte, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919) (incorrectly attributed as "Leonard" Heath).
“The Eagle, he was lord above,
And Rob was lord below.”
Rob Roy's Grave, st. 14.
Memorials of a Tour in Scotland (1803)
“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.”
First words from the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle after guiding the craft to a landing on the Moon at 4:17pm EDT (20 July 1969)
Un beau jour, ou peut-etre une nuit,
Près d'un lac, je m'étais endormie,
Quand soudain, semblant crever le ciel,
Et venant de nulle part,
Surgit un aigle noir.
L'Aigle noir.
Song lyrics
The Savage Nation (1995- ), 2015
Source: The Capture (2003), Chapter Twenty-four: "Empty Hollows", p. 181
When asked what he thought about he thought about people who called him un-American and a traitor, as quoted in "Filmmaker rehashes politics in Dome speech" in The Daily Orange (23 September 2004) http://media.www.dailyorange.com/media/storage/paper522/news/2004/09/23/Pulp/Filmmaker.Rehashes.Politics.In.Dome.Speech-728133.shtml
2004
On wide receiver DeSean Jackson, Hall Of Famer Calls DeSean Jackson 'Chicken' http://www.myfoxphilly.com/story/17541803/hall-of-famer-calls-desean-jackson-chicken
Book IV, Note III, p. 50
Les confidences (1849)
"The Home Builder Conserves" [1928]; Published in The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold, Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott (eds.) 1991, p. 147.
1920s
To a Lady singing a Song of his Composing; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). See also Eagles, for variations on this theme.
1870s, Oratory in Memory of Abraham Lincoln (1876)
volume I, chapter II: "Autobiography", pages 60-61 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=78&itemID=F1452.1&viewtype=image
The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin (1887)
Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue (The Angry American).
Song lyrics, Unleashed (2002)
Explanatory Appendix, Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World (1934) Tr. Andrew Motte, p. 674
Statement of 13 March 1939, as quoted in "Facts on Communism" (1960) by the United States Congress, p. 157
"A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea"; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Narrator, p. 118
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Enemy (1984)
1940s, State of the Union Address — The Four Freedoms (1941)
Do Not Weep, Maiden, For War is Kind, p. 4
War Is Kind and Other Lines (1899)
La Conciencia de la Mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness
"The History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany" (1834)
"Gather at the River", page 164
Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside (1984)
Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 94-95
Source: A for Anything (1959), Chapter 18 (p. 186)
The Day, 1906. Alle Verk, xii. 319.
“Like a trembling hind pursued by a Hyrcanian tigress, or like a pigeon that checks her flight when she sees a hawk in the sky, or like a hare that dives into the thicket at sight of the eagle hovering with outstretched wings in the cloudless sky.”
...ceu tigride cerva
Hyrcana cum pressa tremit, vel territa pennas
colligit accipitrem cernens in nube columba,
aut dumis subit, albenti si sensit in aethra
librantem nisus aquilam, lepus.
Book V, lines 280–284
Punica
Corruption.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Qinyuanchun ["Snow"] (沁园春•雪) (1936; first published in late 1945). Variant translation of the last stanza: "All are past and gone! / For truly great men / Look to this age alone."