Best Hawks Quotations
129 Hawks quotes by 116 unique authors
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As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.
— Ovid
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Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the…
— Alexander Pope
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Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you…
— Anna Quindlen
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Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I'm a big proponent of Hawk-Eye. I think it's a wonderful addition, not only for the players, but more importantly for the fans.
— Jim Courier
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Do I really believe that my work is crucial to the planet's survival? Of course not. But it's as important to me as catching that…
— Steven Pressfield
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It's just that [the Hawks have made] a lot of changes. A lot of their great players have moved on. They have a lot of…
— Mike Modano
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About five years ago, the courses we run in the Field Trials were 52 percent timber. The hawks live in trees, and the quail nest…
— Rick Carlisle
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The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves…
— Erasmus Darwin
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I am no more proud of my career as an athlete than I am of the fact that I am a direct descendant of that…
— Jim Thorpe
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Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish…
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of…
— Stephen Fry
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You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read…
— Buddy Hackett
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I'm proud of 'Black Hawk Down' because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had more opportunity to…
— Josh Hartnett
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A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a…
— Ernest Hemingway
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a…
— Nathan Myhrvold
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Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But…
— Karl Rove
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I grew up as an artist. Science fiction allows for design and creatures and guns and all the stuff that I like as well. So…
— Neill Blomkamp
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I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.
— William Shakespeare
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I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The…
— Willa Cather
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Well, sometimes love seems easy. Like..it's easy to love rain...and hawks. And it's easy to love wild plums...and the moon. But with people, seems like…
— Billie Letts
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A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows,” he replied firmly. “Hawks, too, are the same, whether they are…
— Tamora Pierce
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I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with…
— Bruce Chatwin
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When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of…
— William Shakespeare
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love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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