"You ought not to be rude to an……" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in hid eyrie at night!"
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756 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.
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Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight…
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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or…
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
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The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a…
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The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
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Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love…
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More Eagle Quotes
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
— Neil Armstrong
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The Eagle has landed.
— Neil Armstrong
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Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
— Ken Blanchard
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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
— William J. Clinton
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A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell…
— Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands…
— John Keats
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Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor…
— Dizzy Gillespie
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I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
— Mark Twain
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