Courses Quote by Terry Pratchett

“Interesting fact: eagles are the only birds to work out how to eat tortoises. You know? They pick them up, flying up very high,…

— Terry Pratchett

One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

— Terry Pratchett

“Now consider the tortoise and the eagle. The tortoise is a ground-living creature. It is impossible to live nearer the ground without being under…

— Terry Pratchett

At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What wisdom does the eagle whisper to those who are learning to fly?

— Pan Munoz Ryan

The naturalist picked up the eagle and said to it, "Thou dost belong to the sky and not to this earth; stretch forth thy…

— Paul H. Dunn

Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory, they are…

— Jim Elliot

It is very difficult to fly with an eagle if you are working with small birds.

— Vikrant Parsai

“It takes no skill to find a bald eagle. You look for flat rabbits on country roads. Wait a while and the national emblem…

— Brian Kimberling

“If a bird believes it is an eagle long enough, it will eventually end up soaring like one.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do.

— Anonymous

Not all eagles can be trained, but those who take to life with a master display intense loyalty. Although they are not tethered, they…

— Stephen Kinzer