#mitzvah corps

[silverjetsystm]

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Outfit Headcanons | Accepting

♥ -   A “traditional” outfit based on their heritage (i.e. kimono, sari, other folk costumes)

This is going to be mostly Jake Lockley Posting.

For AToM&S, Jake's jacket is the show jacket with tweaks. Instead of the Mayan calendar dates for out of universe details, they would include the day they became Moon Knight and their wedding date. A later jacket would swap Khonshu for Moon Knight and Scarlet Scarab symbols and add Beam's birthdate. I think this came out of something their mom's side would do.

Despite on-panel evidence, I have decided Jake wears tallit katan, an undershirt with tzitzit (fringes tied to the corners), in all verses. He may just be tucking them all along. Which he will when he's going somewhere nice. Otherwise, he'll leave them untucked. Marc wore one through childhood. In high school, he stopped wearing either, which led to additional arguments with Elias.

ATOM&S!Jake ties his tzitzit in Sephardic style, with an special loop around each coil called a chulya (pictured below via Ben's Tallit Shop).

Ashkenazi style; what other Jakes usually wear.

When the system chooses to daven, they do have a tallit (prayer shawl) and Tefillin for morning. I think they lost or left their bar mitzvah ones when Marc joined the Corps. Or it was lost in some sort of Corps related bullshit. They did eventually get them replaced. Jake will do a stop at a shul for earliest Shachrit and then noodle home on a routine basis.

Jake may have a kippah under his flat-cap. It either matches or accents the cap. He won't wear one when he's puttering around at home.

[radioprune]

sorry I just made the funniest joke ever that my mom didn’t understand because she’s middle aged etc but she was like I’m writing your cousin a check for $200 and I said not even $198 and she said no and I said wow not very mitzvahcore of you. which is a pun on Mitzvah corps. anyway

[bouncinghedgehog]

From Ori Hanan Weinberg:

This is a post I've needed to write for a while. I've started it a few times. But it's exceedingly difficult. Both because of my own conflicts and the divisiveness of the topic. If all you have to say about IDF soldiers is that they are war criminals and state terrorists, then this post isn't for you. If you believe in the heroism of the IDF uncritically, then this post isn't for you. In either case, stating your well-known positions will only add heat, but no light. And either way, you will likely judge me quite harshly.

Despite F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous statement that "the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function," I have no pretentions of qualifying as such. I'm blessed to know quite a few who do, so I have ample context. It's not some false humility, which is also a kind of pretentiousness. You may judge it cognitive dissonance. I think it more a kind of moral dissonance. But in this week of James Joyce's birthday (look at me going full modernist with both those first-rate modernist intellects!!!), I will eschew the principle of non-contradiction, as Joyce so often did, and not shy away from such conundra, as he refused to. It's time for me to speak. Or write, if you will. Or if I will. Though this is in many senses against my will. In the space between two conflicting wills. Regardless of what laying this out will do to my already vexed sleep cycle.

These days, I abdicate my attempts at rest each morning when it's yet dark and immediately grab my phone to check the news. Not in general. That comes a bit later. But with a single purpose. I feel a deep emotional compulsion and moral obligation, which aren't really separable, to check for the fallen as my first act of the new day. This morning, there was only one. Only? Shimon Yehoshua Asulin (pictured), 24, from Beit Shemesh.

Few have been the days when I do not begin my day with images of faces tagged with names and ages and hometowns as such days are scarce. The appearance of names and faces is all too dependable. And no, I do not ignore the fact that exponentially more Gazan non-combatants have been torn from the world and their faces and names are beyond my access to witness. Sometimes, more than a hundred in a single day. It's unspeakable. History is watching. Mothers are grieving. And the future will not reward anyone for this carnage and irrecoverable loss.

I check the hometowns of the fallen soldiers and note that a disproportionate number of the dead have been from Jerusalem. Most aren't less strangers than people from Haifa or Be'er Sheva or Eilat or some kibbutz or moshav or smaller town or settlement. But the more geographically proximate their homes, the more proximate the loss feels. Of course, I'm also checking to see if they are from my community or related to friends and acquaintances. Most importantly, I check if they are connected in some degree to my own kids.

My daughter is currently serving in the Education Corps. My younger children are before conscription. Yes, before conscription. It's one of those dividers that organizes life here. Before conscription and after conscription. Like before Bar/Bat Mitzvah and after. Before high school graduation and after. A marker on one's path of individual and social life. But I need to know in case they need me. In case their trauma is more immediate today than on others. My two elder children have attended funerals. Their first. Not of an octogenarian grandparent, but people they have known through their youth movements and social circles. Siblings of friends. People separated from them by one or two degrees of acquaintance. And I desperately want to undo these experiences. Offer them just a few more years of innocence, ignorance of mortality, or at least less proximate knowledge of it, and of the savagery of politics. And I know there is more coming.

I first came to Israel at 16 in the middle of the first Lebanon War, the first of Israel's wars to spark a debate about its necessity. Yet the aura of the IDF was still absolutely unquestioned here. I remember being packed into Jerusalem buses at rush hour. Back then, people would squeeze in and hand money to the person in front of them to be passed up to the driver. Within moments, a little gray paper ticket would be passed back, along with change. I marveled at the compact that ensured this. We were all in this together. It was emblematic of a social bond that I had yearned for. Then, at the top of the hour, the driver would turn up the radio and a succession of beeps would introduce the news and the hubbub would fall silent as we listened for the names, the ages, the hometowns. And after a solemn moment, chatter and babble would bubble up again. This, too, knit us together. Even more strongly. The social compact I reveled in was never stronger than in the regularized, but never normalized shared grief.

Already then, I was a fan of Casablanca. Who isn't? Okay, I know some who aren't. There are many people I don't understand. I'd seen it two or three times at the art deco arthouse theater in my midwestern hometown that screened classics and cult films and documentaries. I've since watched it more times than I can count. Though likely over 50. I rewatched it just a few weeks ago. And I remembered one of Rick's most cynical lines and understood its bitter bite. When asked if he'd heard of the two German couriers who had been murdered, he declares "lucky guys." When asked how they were lucky, he mutters with unmitigated fatalism that and not a little sarcasm that "yesterday they were just two German couriers. Today they're the honored dead."

At 16, seeking manhood and meaning, I was primed for the allure of self-sacrifice. And I made a decision I've often wanted to go back and unmake. Two years later, I was in basic training in an IDF infantry unit. Everyone was predicting with confidence an imminent war with Syria in which we'd be expected to lay down our lives.

Of course, the survivors would be endowed with a permanent patina of heroism. Like the kibbutz gardener I knew whom someone else told me had participated in the famous hostage rescue at Entebbe. And I looked at him with awe as he pushed his wheelbarrow along the paths and tended to flowers and shrubbery and hedges. Or the father of a girlfriend, a jovial Yemenite family man who greeted me with warmth, not suspicion, despite my very much less than chaste intentions, and cured his own olives, and worked as a custodian of the same building where my current office is located. He'd been a paratrooper who fought at Ammunition Hill in 1967 in Jerusalem and been with the brigade that entered the Old City and danced and wept in front of the Western Wall. Simple men. Extraordinary heroes.

Then the First Intifada broke out. And it tore me in two. My simple desires and ardent imagination was rent by a reality that revealed a deep contradiction in my ideological commitments. I've written about this in a novel manuscript and other posts.

The problem was that I was a Labor Zionist. A socialist committed to human equality as well as the project of securing a Jewish home from a history that had too often threatened to erase my people. My education had omitted the scope and callous intentionality of our mass dispossessions. Or obscured them with various apologetics. And certainly didn't share the genealogy of "transfer" woven through the history of Zionist ideologies. I had thought of the conflict between us and the Arabs as the product of a historical and moral imperative that resulted in a clash between nations. As a socialist, I considered Israel and Zionism at that moment a temporary trial, and looked forward to a resolution that would see a fully democratic republic.

Then, as I faced a popular revolt in Gaza, and then also in the West Bank, I looked at the protestors, rioters, resistors, and I realized a class dimension. Who were the workers and who were the bosses? And for whom was I bearing arms? Was it to defend Jewish children in our ancient homeland and revived political autonomy, or to suppress a working class? Who was I? To what was I dedicating myself? How could I be both? Living on a kibbutz and serving in a combat unit had seemed clear and coherent and somehow purer than the bourgeois American life I was born into. Richer and fuller. Definitely more dramatic. I had made myself an instrument and agent of history. And I wanted to be on the right side. But where was it?

It took several years until that brutal tear in my identity came fully into focus. The pain was there. But only later did its full depth and scope and source reveal itself. And I'm still trying to live with it. Come to terms with it. The people I loved most have paid a great price for this process.

Among those who have paid a price for my trauma and intermittent and fallible attempts at recovery is my son. I've written about him before. He's a very special person. He was born a "mensch," a Yiddish term from German for "man" that connotes someone who is upright and kind and gracious, not macho and aggressive. Nothing necessarily alpha about a mensch. In fact, it's a challenge to be both. Some succeed. He might be one. Very popular. He has a natural charisma and good looks. Phenomenal dimples from his mother. An athlete's body.

He's a serious basketball player and a student at a boarding school an hour from here that houses a special basketball academy for gifted players with high ambitions. I see him on weekends and I drive every Monday to watch his games. Last game, his team lost by 30 points. But for half the game, he guarded a player at least five inches taller and with a bigger body who also plays for the elite national youth team. And he shut him down. Didn't get past him once. Not sure he scored a single basket while my son was guarding him. Yes, a man whose life from very early on has been about music and literature and philosophy and politics is now a committed sports dad. I love it. My son's grace on the court is gorgeous. Artistic. His grit and passion and discipline amaze me.

He has wide concentric circles of wonderful friends and has been an admired leader in his scout troupe. Younger kids are mesmerized by him. And plenty of girls crush on him. He knows it. Plenty are friends of his. Yet he somehow remains humble. Nothing angers him more than cruelty. And he stands up to it. Already in elementary school, he would face down kids who were bullying those younger than them.

I know no one with a bigger heart.

Have no fear, I don't fail to recognize his flaws and challenges. He can be a real brat to his sisters. He doesn't always apply himself to his studies the way I'd like him to. He can be surly and monosyllabic with me as a 17-year-old can be with his father. And he's not as curious about some things as I'd like him to be. But I'm enormously proud of him, of who he is, and I tell him that regularly. Which often results in the kind of extended embraces one doesn't usually expect from a teenage boy. Yet I enumerate his qualities for the following reason.

Just two months ago, he had his first pre-conscription interview with the IDF. He told them that his first choice is to be an athlete. Top athletes do minimal service that allows them to develop in their sport, or there would be no athletics in the country. But if he doesn't make that rarefied cut, he wants to begin the tryout process for the top commando units.

We've talked about the army many times. When he was little, he would ask to see my memorabilia. Old insignia and such. And pictures. I always frustrated him by demurring. I didn't want to feed the fantasies. As he got older, I explained my very complicated relationship to IDF service.

A year ago or so, I told him that if he refused, I would support him. I knew there was no chance. His education would make that very uncommon. His scout troupe produces a high percentage of people who go to elite units and become officers. Herzi Halevy, the current Chief of General Staff, was a member of his troupe. Same thing with his school. But his answer was one I couldn't even argue with. Much as I wanted to. He's not looking to do this out of social pressure or to chase a kind of aggressive masculinity that's quite foreign to him. It isn't an ego building desire.

This is more or less how he answered:

"Abba [father/dad], look, without those units, we wouldn't survive here for five minutes. I'm an athlete. A scout leader. I am capable of discipline and teamwork. I'm very social. And I'll have the opportunity because we know there's profiling involved. My school. My troupe. My address. I'm Ashkenazi and Anglo. We need people to do this. Not many can. I can do it. So I have to."

What am I supposed to say? Don't be such a good citizen? Forget this ethic of service to others, to your community and society? Leave it to people who don't object to racism and savagery and cruelty?

I can't argue, as many of my readers certainly would, that this just contributes to the problem. Of course, in many senses I agree. But this is a problem of immediate necessities contributing necessarily to the entire context of awfulness, not just sustaining but driving it.

The thing is, I agree that if people don't do this, we are in immediate existential danger. Decommission the IDF tomorrow. What happens? My family will be in mortal danger. My community will be in mortal danger. My society, vexed as it is, so needing change, will be on the precipice.

Justify October 7th as resistance as you might (I emphatically do not), I will not facilitate a million more murders of my people. I don't know how to break the cycle. But I'm not willing to simply commit suicide. Yes, we need another way. But the process of getting there is not clear. And this isn't abstract. Real lives are at stake. This doesn't mean I support this war. I protested it before it began, in the wake of October 7th. I knew it was coming. I spelled out my arguments and voiced my proleptic rage and grief. But baring the throats and hearts of my children is not an option for me.

There's a parable in the Talmud of two men stuck in the desert. One has a waterskin that contains enough water for one of them to reach the nearest city. If they share, they will both die. What should they do? Should the one with the water sacrifice himself and demonstrate selflessness so his friend will survive? This is a moral question. It seeks to articulate a clear 'ought', an imperative, a morally correct solution. Rabbi Aqiva, one of our greatest sages, explains that the one with the water must keep it, drink it and reach the city. He is not at liberty to commit suicide and sacrifice himself for his friend. Why? He cites the end of the biblical verse from Leviticus 25:36 that famously prohibits the charging of interest, the rationale given there being "so that your brother shall live with you." Your obligation to your brother is that he be with you, not without you. Self-preservation takes precedence. Only then can your brother live with you.

We have too long constructed our relationship as a zero sum game. I envision a future in which there's indeed enough water in that waterskin and we will both have something beneficial to offer one another and skills to support one another and we will exist in a context of mutual benefit as guarantors of one another's rights and security. Jews in the Land of Israel have been aggressors, though this doesn't preclude also being victims. We have engaged in acquisitive violence and continue to do so, and oppression and vicious inequalities. How do we break that cycle? I have a vision, but I don't know how to accomplish it. I know at that what is happening, what we are doing, is making things less possible not more possible. And I believe that there is no moral justification for the hell we are unleashing.

And yet, I cannot see our troops, though some are committing war crimes, and perhaps the entire endeavor is criminal (I've already stated clearly that I think it morally unjustifiable), as jackbooted stormtroopers. Many are genuinely putting their lives on the line to defend millions of children and an entire society. Some disagree with what we are doing but accept the authority of our democratically elected government (I have no illusions about Israeli democracy, such as it…isn't, but this is how they see it). Some intervene to stop abuses. I've witnessed this myself. One of the reasons I decided in the end not to refuse to continue my service was because I thought I could be a "balam musari" a moral brake. And sometimes, in some frightening situations, I was. But I was never confident that this was the best course of action. I think I would likely choose differently if I could choose again.

I do admire those who refuse. But I admire many who serve as well. And I grieve for our "honored dead," just as I resist their glorification. I remember at the end of my service having a conversation with a comrade and deciding we would never mention the names of those we knew who were killed in the line of duty without saying something unflattering we remembered about them. We didn't want them to become perfect angels. Become less human. Become less real. Nonetheless, I honor them.

And every morning, I will continue to check my phone. First thing. And I will read names and ages and hometowns. And I will look at their pictures. Learn their faces for a moment.

And the grief will be barely tolerable.

If at all.

[progressivejudaism]

[binsofchaos]

Reaching Out (Susie Flax)

Performed by Susie Flax, feat. Gary Bretton-Granatoor

There are times that I need to be alone

Times I say are just for me

But there are times that I need to know

That you're out there, for me

I may be wrong, but I'm reaching out

Somewhat afraid of what I'll find

Not understanding all that is said

But willing to take a chance tho I may fall

Now I understand, we must learn as one

Take that first step hand in hand

And tho I see us, growing closer day by day

Still, I need you here as my friend

I may be wrong, but I'm reaching out

Somewhat afraid of what I'll find

Not understanding all that is said

But willing to take a chance tho I may fall

Now I understand, we must learn as one...

Copyright © 1982 by Susie Flax

All Rights Reserved

[stealth-liberal]

I've been posting a lot of HIV/AIDS content. Yes, it's sad, trust me, I was there and I know.

Why am I talking about it now? Well for years it was too sad to talk about my experiences in AIDS activism. So many people I knew died, friends, aquaintances. Too many people died. And I was so young when I joined the fight.

How did I get into it? My bat mitzvah, no seriously, my Jewish coming of age ceremony. To be bar or bat mitvahed (bar is for boys and bat is for girls) you have to do a certain amount of community service and my rabbi encouraged us all to go out and do something that really mattered and wasn't easy. I was 12 years old and I needed to do a year long community service project to be bat mitzvahed at 13. And HIV/AIDS was everywhere and it mattered.

I heard about an ACT UP protest at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence (RI's capital city) and begged my mother to take me. This disease was everywhere. Gay and bisexual men were being treated as though this was a punishment from G-d, IV drug users were treated the same way. Children with the disease were kicked out of schools, camps, any organized activity they were a part of. Sex workers were being rounded up by cops as public health criminals and tossed into women's jails. The blood supply got tainted and hemophiliacs became the new untouchables and many people were too scared to recieve life saving transfusions. So 12 year old me decided that joining this fight was how I would prove to my rabbi and my community that I deserved to be called a Jewish adult, a daughter of the commandments.

To this day I don't remember exactly how I heard about the protest or exactly what words I used to convince my mother to take me, but she did. I didn't have the words that young to describe how I felt there at that protest, but now, in my 40's, I do. Vocation. I felt and still feel that G-d was telling me exactly where I needed to be and what I needed to be doing at that point in my life. To be sure, the ACT UP people were surprised to see a 12 year old girl there and perhaps were shocked that her mother had brought her, but I screamed "SILENCE = DEATH" and "STOP KILLING US" and "ACT UP, FIGHT BACK, FIGHT AIDS" with the best of them.

The following weekend my mother brought me to Rhode Island Project Aids and I just said that I wanted to volunteer and do whatever I could to help. Apparently I was the 1st person to go to RIPA (Rhode Island Project Aids) for a religious ceremony mandated community service project. I showed up at 12 and didn't leave till the age of 20 when I joined the Marine Corps. I showed up, I filed paperwork, got coffee, did AIDS buddy work, marched, did fund raisers. When I turned 18 I started going out and dispensing condoms to sex workers, handing them out outside of known hot spots for anonymous sex, gay clubs would contact us to hand them out during closing and I would go, I handed out free, unused needles with the RI needle program. I did anything they asked me to do to fight back against this epidemic. And when I finally got to my duty station at Camp Pendleton I always had mounds of pamphlets and condoms to give out from my barracks room to anyone who needed them. Much to the chagrin of my roommates... it did lead to reputation of being an easy lay on my battalion. But so what?

I think back on those days and I cry because of all the people I knew who aren't here anymore. People I grew to be close to, people I loved, people who watched me grow up. I never regret it though. Not the pain or the tears, because what I did was important and it mattered, just like my old rabbi said. It gave my life direction.

My daughter is 11 years old, next year she will have to choose a community service project (called tikkun olam in Judaism) for her bat mizvah, 2 years after that my son will have to choose one for his bar mitzvah. I plan on telling them the same thing my rabbi told me: "Don't choose the easy thing, do something important, do something that matters".

[icantbealive]

“oh, you’re a convert?” SHORT VERSION:Raised Catholic in Virginia. Felt connected to Judaism at 15. Moved to Chicago for college at 18 and completed a conversion through the Conservative movement. Now 22, studying at the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem, and shomer mitzvot.LONG VERSION:I was raised Catholic. I was baptized. I prayed the rosary until I fell asleep when my brother’s fever was dangerously high and he spent all night in the emergency room. I went to mass with my family every Sunday. I went through religious education. I read through the Bible several times. My brother and I used to run around my backyard and play with our guardian angels. I went to confession regularly. While my parents certainly raised us to be Catholic, I was still raised with liberal values. My family stopped going to church sometime after my brother’s communion, so I was probably nine or ten. As I got older, less and less made sense to me. I couldn’t wrap my mind around the holy trinity, or the entire story of Jesus. I would lie in bed, awake at night, trying to make sense of what I still believed in.I grew up in a small town on the outskirts of the DC suburbs. My school was 90% white. Out of 600 or so kids in my middle school, one or two were Jewish. I knew Yom Kippur was a Jewish holiday because it was always printed on calendars, and I knew Hanukkah was around Christmas. I had little to no knowledge of any religion besides my own until I started having this crisis of faith. I went to a sports broadcasting camp in Maryland every summer in middle school and my freshman year of high school. The first year I went, I made friends with a boy named Jacob and we went to camp together every year. The next year, we went to a different session and met more friends. They all talked about their bar mitzvahs and BBYO and summer camp and it was all so fascinating to me- I was the minority and they had this entire culture and upbringing that was utterly foreign to me. At the time, I had reached an apathetic level in my faith. I was no longer a spiritual person. I did not pray or feel a need to find a religion. After camp, I went home and I started reading more and more about Judaism. I found it so interesting. I found it to be a religion that was very open to interpretations and questioning, which was refreshing. The cultural aspect was fascinating.Much to my dismay, I was about forty five minutes away from a synagogue. I was entering eighth grade, so I obviously couldn’t drive. I spent the next two years observing the religion in different ways. Truthfully, I had no idea what I was doing. I didn’t understand the differences between Orthodoxy and liberal movements. I read as much as I could. I started keeping kosher. I would pray every morning when I woke up. I began exploring the idea of conversion.My friends mocked me. Everyone- my parents, friends, other family members- thought it was an adolescent phase, as if I would grow out of it. I was only fourteen, but I felt like I was old enough to know what I believed in. In Catholicism, I would have been going through the sacrament of Confirmation and “confirming” my faith and my dedication to follow the religion for the rest of my life, so why wasn’t I old enough to find a more suitable set of beliefs to go by?I first attended services during my sophomore year of high school. There was a boy on my brother’s ice hockey team whose parents would sit with my mother at games and practices. The family was Jewish and upon hearing about my interest in the religion, offered to take me to a reform temple. My first experience was tagging along to a religious education class and to meet the rabbi. A few weeks later, I went with the family to High Holiday services.The family did not go to temple outside of holidays, so my experiences at an actual synagogue were limited until I began driving. Once I had my license, I began attending Shabbat services every month or so. I worked at a grocery store in high school and it was difficult to take Friday nights off, so I went when I could. There were certainly times when I felt a need to go- Shabbat services always leave me feeling clear headed and relaxed, and I absolutely love how there is a holiday every week in Judaism.I went to High Holidays, a seder, and a handful of Shabbat services throughout the last two years of high school. After nearly four years of identifying as a Jew, it felt natural and like it was truly part of my identity. Most of my classmates didn’t even know I was converting. I experienced antisemitism, and while it was usually satirical, it still affected my Jewish experience. It gave me a pride in my religion and new-found culture. It was frustrating not being able to fully observe Judaism. I was in third grade when I decided I needed to move to a large city, so in the back of my mind, I promised myself I could live a Jewish life once I was in college. I made it a goal to join a synagogue and begin the conversion process. In late November 2013, I was accepted to Columbia College Chicago. By the spring, I had officially paid my deposit and would be moving to Chicago in August. I made it one of my many goals to join Hillel and find a conversion class.I began researching synagogues in Chicago. I wanted to try out a Conservative synagogue. There seemed to be more of a standard for practice within the Conservative community, and there were certain mitzvot I felt very drawn to, such as kashrut and Shabbat, that I didn’t feel like the reform community I had been in took seriously. I also wanted a synagogue that had a comprehensive conversion program. Some of the synagogues that I looked at had little or no information about their programs. A synagogue on Chicago’s North Side had a very established program and it was accessible by public transportation. I began the program in September 2014.I completed the Jews-by-Choice program at a Conservative synagogue in May 2015. I went before a beit din on 19 May and went to the mikveh on 21 May. In mid-May, I also moved to a Jewish neighborhood to be within walking distance of the synagogue. I live near three shuls, a JCC and a kosher restaurant. For someone who grew up in rural Virginia, this is heaven. My first year of college in Chicago was a very unique experience. I became very active in Hillel. I formed a pro-Israel student organization at my college. I went to AIPAC Policy Conference as a student delegate. I went on an Alternative Spring Break trip with Hillel and the Jewish Disaster Response Corps. I was able to experience Shabbat through a variety of lenses, from the local reform shul to a Modern Orthodox community, from Hillel Friday night dinners to being welcomed into a local community member’s home. Fast forward a few years to today. I finished undergrad in three years. I spent a year after college working at a major Jewish non-profit. I’ve visited Israel five times. I’ve experienced Jewish life in 9 countries during a semester abroad. I’m shomer shabbat, I keep kosher, I wrap tefillin and I’m relatively happy with where I am and who I am and how far I’ve come.If you have any questions about conversion, Conservative Judaism, or anything else at all, feel free to ask!”

TLDR THIS BITCH NEEDS TO CHOKE ON A ROCK

[magisterivm]

                                                        get yasself a facial hair HERO

Il y a du cuir dans ma voiture L'odeur de mon parfum me rassure Je n'aime pas montrer mes émotions

          DORIAN PAVUS - lordpavus.co.vu

A la salle de musculation Je soulève quelques poids et haltères Mon corps est une machine de guerre J'ai tout ce qu'on rêverait d'avoir J'ai peut-être tout c'est vrai

          GARRETT HAWKE - totallynotabloodmage

both scrawled by ari || 25+, irreverent do yourself a mitzvah if you aren’t familiar with this song tho

[liaimaginarium]

Le dernier exorcisme - OS

La pluie frappait le macadam inlassablement depuis le début de l'après midi et faisait désormais scintiller la pénombre nocturne en se faisant miroir des phares, enseignes et lampadaire semant leur lumière dans la ville. Shikamaru s'était épargné ce spectacle pittoresque, se réfugiant dans un bar proche du campus. A ses côtés, l'un de ses camarades de promo lui tenait compagnie, comme tous les soirs. -          Mais je ne comprends rien... Je sais même pas qui c'était ce type et il se ramène « Ouais vous faite trop de bruit » et vas-y que je fais mon chieur. C'était quoi son problème ? demanda Naruto déjà passablement alcoolisé. -          Un poivrot dans une bibliothèque universitaire... -          Alors je suis pas un poivrot hein ! Je bois raisonnablement... tenta-t-il en perdant l'équilibre sur son petit tabouret de bar. Son ami retint de justesse sa chute. Malgré tout, peut-être que la prochaine fois il le laisserait tomber comme une masse, des fois que ça lui remette les idées en place. -          Mais ça me monte vite à la tête, concéda-t-il avant d'héler le barman. Hey ! Une autre bière ! Son voisin roula des yeux et arrêta discrètement l'homme tandis que son ami partait dans un récit épuisant et indubitablement bancal. -          Remplacez la bière par de l'eau, ça devrait suffire... lui glissa-t-il discrètement. Quelle idée d'accepter un verre après une telle journée... Surtout en compagnie de Naruto. Mais il ne pouvait résister à ce genre soirée. Attendre la nuit tombée pour rentrer lui était devenu inestimable.  L'atmosphère nocturne agissait sur lui comme l'unique remède à un mal que personne ne semblait comprendre, pas même lui. Ses lèvres s'humectèrent une nouvelle fois du liquide sucré sans alcool qu'il avait commandé et il porta un œil distrait au journal mal plié trônant sur le comptoir. La photo de Une n'était pas identifiable et il abandonna rapidement le déchiffrage du titre mangé par la pliure. Quelle importance après tout ? Il était de ceux qui ignorait tout des actualités internationales, des guerres impitoyables, lois traîtresses, salons absurdes. Seule sa vie comptait, il la tenait éloignée de tout, s'efforçait de la préserver hors des problèmes quitte à s'enclaver dans une cage à peine dorée. Il avait peur du monde, de ses atrocités, de ses dangers mais enviait du coin d'un œil faussement blasé les quelques beautés époustouflantes qui avaient su résister. Une surtout. -          Hey ! Tu sais qu'elle partie du légume à le plus de mal à passer au mixer ? -          Hein ? réagit le brun sans comprendre où son ami voulait en venir. -          Le fauteuil roulant ! Oh misère... Naruto avait un goût déjà désastreux pour les blagues mais lorsque l'alcool lui montait à la tête, il n'avait plus aucune retenu. Peu importe qui l'entourait et où il se trouvait. Il aurait été capable de sortir une vanne sur la Shoah en pleins milieu d'une Bar Mitzvah. -          Tiens le un peu ton pote... grogna l'un de leur voisin de bar. Avant que Shikamaru n'est pu répondre quoi que ce soit, Naruto s'était appuyé sur lui de tout son poids pour se pencher vers leur interlocuteur, l’œil mauvais. -          Et c'est quoi ton problème ? Ça allait mal finir... Très mal finir au vu du regard furibond que leur lançait l'homme bien costaud qui leur faisait désormais face. Pourquoi se retrouvait-il toujours au centre de ce genre de rixe ? Heureusement pour lui  et Naruto - quand bien même n'en n'aurait-il pas conscience - une nouvelle arrivante s'interposa involontairement entre eux et leur futur agresseur avec une telle énergie qu'elle en désamorça l'atmosphère oppressante. -          Shikamaru ! s'exclama-t-elle en lui sautant au cou. Dans un mouvement de recule, le jeune homme ôta tout appui à son ami toujours affaler sur son épaule et le bougre glissa de son tabouret, allant proprement se rétamer à terre. -          Désolé Naruto...grimaça la nouvelle arrivante. Quittant son air contrit, la jeune femme extirpa rapidement son portable de son sac et après deux trois manipulation, le fourra sous les yeux de Shikamaru à tel point qu'elle l'obligea à loucher sur l'écran de l'appareil. Le jeune homme n'était pourtant ni presbyte ni hypermétrope mais la proximité du portable au contenu flou lui donna rapidement mal au crâne. -          Ino, je vais finir par rester coincé. La jeune femme s'excusa subitement et recula le mobile pour laisser pleine visibilité à son ami sur la page de messagerie qu'elle avait ouverte. Un message de Shiho, camarade de promotion d'Ino au sein d'une école de commerce réputée. Ino préparait l'examen terminal depuis trois ans après l'avoir tenté par deux fois par la voix universitaire, sans succès, mais enfin, ses efforts et son acharnement avait vraisemblablement fini par payer, comme lui annonçait sa condisciple. -          Je l'ai eu ! Enfin ! s'extasia-t-elle, un somptueux sourire aux lèvres. Dans ses yeux couleur d'azur brillaient d'innombrables nuances éclatantes de gaietés, comme une myriade de petites bulles de lumière ravivées par les éclairages du bar. Dans ces grandes prunelles expressives, il était impressionnant de percevoir avec tant de netteté le changement que conféraient la moindre variation émotionnel à ses iris clairs. -          Cool ! T'es passée sous combien de bureau ? lança le pochtron du trio après un rapide coup d’œil au sms envoyé par Shiho. -          Ta gueule Naruto ! Et c'était parti ! S'il n'y avait pas querelle entre ses deux là au moins une fois par jour, le monde risquait de ne plus tourner rond. Malgré tout, la blague indécente de Naruto n'enraya aucunement le regard pétillant de la jeune femme et ne réussi même pas à totalement tordre sont sourire éclatant. -          Allez je paye ma tournée ! Et je vais enfin pouvoir économiser pour ce petit appartement en pleins cœur de la ville ! Tu sais avec les jolies alcôves dans le salon... ? Shikamaru n'écoutait déjà plus, perdu dans l'observation de la joie rayonnante que dégageait Ino autour d'elle. Elle lui donnait le sourire, par sa simple façon d'être, par ses propres ressentit, comme si son état d'extase le traversait de part en part pour en faire profiter son esprit malmené et son corps tendu par la dépression. Elle avait des projets, de nombreux projets qui guidaient sa volonté, son parcours, sa vie. Elle défonçait les portes qui lui barraient la route, traversait les brumes de craintes et d'incertitude d'un pas toujours régulier. C'était une chose qui lui avait toujours valu énormément de respect de la part de ses paires, même Naruto - il lui avait avoué un soir. En parlant de ce dernier, il avait repris sa consommation à grande vitesse, et alors qu'Ino terminait de décrire les plans de sa futur maison de vacances, le blond frappa le bar de sa peinte tellement fort que le verre, pourtant épais, éclata dans sa main sous le regard médusé du barman. Loin de s'affolé de sa bourde, il n'eut pas l'air de s'en apercevoir et attrapa l'épaule de son voisin de droite totalement inconnu pour enchaîner sur une autre blague à grand renfort de blanc et de balbutiement. -          Et là le prêtre dit au mec que son...son... Sa tête frappa lourdement le bois poisseux du bar, le laissant totalement inerte comme un pantin désarticulé. Son compagnon de fortune en profita pour s'éclipser tandis que Shikamaru vérifiait si son ami respirait toujours. Heureusement pour lui, Naruto avait juste entamé un somme au beau milieu de sa phrase comme il en était couramment d'aventure. -          On le changera pas, soupira Ino en percevant le regard blasé mais soulagé du brun. Et toi alors ? Comment ça se passe avec ta thèse ? Et ton couple ? Sa thèse ? Abandonnée.  Son couple ? Abandonné également. Mais il n'en dirait rien, c'était ainsi depuis près d'un an et Shikamaru guettait le jour où ses mensonges finiraient par s'effondrer. Surement pendant l'été, lorsqu'Ino voudrait venir passer une soirée en compagnie du « couple » qu'il n'avait pas su maintenir en vie. Heureusement, avant qu'il n'est pu encore débiter son discoure habituel, le portable de la jeune femme manifesta sa présence par quelques vibrations insistantes. S'excusant d'un geste, elle prit l'appel en s'éloignant vers la sortie. Shikamaru en profita donc pour peaufiner son inlassable mensonge : du retard dans l'écriture de sa thèse, rien de très grave mais du stress en plus. Son couple... rien de bien nouveau sous le soleil, si ce n'est une envie croissante de déménager - une envie que son ex petite amie avait concrétisée seule - et une recherche d'emplois en parallèle de son poste d'enseignant auprès des premières années. Il fallait jouer simple, rester dans le flou, avec le plus de vérité possible, quand bien même seraient-elles tronqué, jouer l'illusiond'une rassurante banalité. Il n'assumait pas les échecs de sa vie, il n'assumait pas sa vie, et... -          Ino ? La grande blonde revenait de l'extérieure, son mobile fourré au fond de sa poche et plus rien n'irradiait autour d'elle. Ses yeux avait terni, ses prunelles, pourtant d'un noir absolu, semblaient encore plus sombre, appelant vraisemblablement à des larmes qu'elle ne verserait jamais. Ses lèvres ne supportaient plus aucun sourire, rien d'autre qu'une mine déconfite. L'ivresse de l'excitation avait fuit son être en un instant. Elle se rassit sur le tabouret de bar à ses côté et il crut un instant qu'elle ne lui répondrait pas avant que sa voix devenu morne ne retentisse doucement. -          Elle s'est trompée de ligne. Cette conne s'est trompée de ligne. Je suis recalée. Devant la décrépitude de son amie, Shikamaru rassembla les dernières bribes d'optimisme qu'Ino lui avait transmit dans la soirée. Tant pis, il n'en avait pas tant besoin que ça après tout. -          Allez, ce sera pour la prochaine fois va. Ce n'est que partie remise, j'en suis persuadé. Elle lui concéda un maigre sourire, plus ou moins convaincu et reporta ses yeux de biche sur son verre presque vide. -          Bon, je vais devoir y aller... ça ira ? déclara-t-il au bout d'une vingtaine de minutes silencieuses. Ino ne lui répondit que par un bref hochement de tête. 23h15, toujours la même heure. Une habitude intarissable. Il sauta au bas de son piédestal et se tourna vers son camarade toujours endormi à qui le barman jetait quelques regards réprobateurs sans pour autant venir le réveiller.   -          Laisse. Je le ramène, intervint Ino en portant son verre à ses lèvres. Shikamaru la remercia d'un signe de tête et lui octroya une tape sur l'épaule avant de quitter le bar. Enfin. Enfin, ce qu'il attendait tout les jours, tout les soirs, assis à ce putain de bar, à renifler les relents d'alcool, supporter les vannes douteuse de Naruto, les rires graveleux des piliers de comptoir. Voilà ce qu'il attendait dans ce taudis emplis de perversité, de machisme bourru et de luxure assumée, à peine éclairé par la douce et rassurante présence d'Ino. Ce rad parmi les plus craignos de la ville semblait être le purgatoire de ses journées avant ce paradis éphémère : le chemin du retour. Piètre paradis pour le commun des hommes, une addiction indétrônable pour lui. La pluie avait cessé. Seul sur ses routes de campagnes déserte, couvé par une nuit tapissé de relief et végétation spectrales, à peine discernable, de myriades d'étoiles, dans un silence si paisible... La capote de sa vieille porche rabattu, il profitait du vent doux nocturne, des odeurs si particulières qu'infusait la nature à l'éveil de la lune. Il se sentait seul au monde, sans frontière, sans obligations. Juste seul et libre de tout, libre de la ville, libre de ses études, libres de ses relations, de son quotidien, sa vie tellement rapiécé qu'il l'en trouvait laide à en mourir. ...Mourir. Combien de fois, s'était-il dit qu'il pourrait bien mourir ? Que rien ne changerait vraiment ici bas ? Il n'avait jamais su pourquoi sa sensibilité l'empêchait de supporter un monde que d'autre parcourait sans fléchir. Sa vie n'était pourtant pas si catastrophique, mais qu'elle était fade et sans intérêt... Tout avait progressivement disparu, ses ambitions, ses envies, ses projets pour ne devenir que de simples points de passages sur son parcours. Il avait aimé, avait désaimé et appris que même cette émotion n'était pas de taille face à se qu'il attendait vraiment, face à cette cage qui semblait être partout, que semblait être cette société, cette culture, cette famille peut-être... Sur le tableau de bord, l'aiguille des kilométrages continuait son acensions, le vent hurlait son passage, les poumons du jeune conducteur gonflait des effluve enivrantes de cette nuit libératrice. Il ne voyait rien pour l'arrêter, juste la vitesse pour faire monter l'adrénaline dans son être et l'aider à respirer sans souffrir sa simple existence.  Libération. Juste une sensation d'évasion mais assez puissante, assez dévastatrice pour le secouer de frissons de plaisir, juste assez pour lui donner un aperçu extatique de ce que serait la véritable liberté. Ses paupières se fermèrent sur la longue ligne droite filant vers les montagnes et il laissa la vitesse extirper ses démons comme un exorcisme connu de lui seul.  Il souffla tremblant de cette intensité émotionnelle qu'il ne savait gérer. Il rouvrit les yeux sur une lumière aveuglante et le rugissement déchirant d'un klaxon routier. Dommage. Il n'avait même pas encore atteins les 180 km/h.                                                             *** Il faisait froid, la pierre du bâtiment semblait gorgée d'humidité et l'ambiance était d'un lugubre inégalable. Le moindre son retentissait jusque dans les  recoins les plus éloignés de la salle, portant la voix du pasteur jusqu'au tout dernier rang de bois. Il y avait une vingtaine de personnes, pas grand monde mais assez pour mettre Ino mal alaise. Naruto était exceptionnellement silencieux et bien que le décor du temple vaille quelques coups d'oeil admiratifs, leur regard à tous deux ne quittait pas le cercueil sellé installé devant la chaire. Ce fut alors que l'orge raisonnait enfin que Naruto se permis ses premiers mots de la journée. -          C'est quand même marrant... Sa voisine tourna un regard consterné vers son ami, se demandant ce que cet imbécile pouvait bien trouver de marrant à la situation. -          Bah ouais... mourir en rentrant d'un bar qui s'appelle l'Epitaphe c'est quand même un sacré comble ! -          Ta gueule Naruto. Juste... Ferme-la, siffla Ino au bord de la crise de nerf après quelques minutes d'hébétude. Rien ne changeait vraiment...

[meowingatthesea]

Hey babe it's revenge time. I challenge u to answer every even ask that starts with a consonant.🎀

Babe this is cruel and unusual punishment. Would you have sex with the last person you text messaged?Eww no they're basically my older sister 2. You talked to an ex today, correct?Define ex 3. Have you taken someones virginity?yup I ran into their bedroom and stole it from their deskDid you hang out with the person you like recently?No we need to get our shit together 6. What are you excited for?Folklife is in two weeks!7. What happened tonight?I practiced for covenant renewal and gave a speech on what Judaism means to me8. Do you think it’s disgusting when girls get really wasted?Listen its their choice not mine10. What is the last beverage you had?Water. I am high and as such suuuuuuper thirsty11. How many people of the opposite sex do you fully trust?One. @coolgaycanada my bitch 12. Do you own a pair of skinny jeans?Lol no13. What are you gonna do Saturday night?Stay up too fucking late with one of my best friends then regret it when I have to wake up at 5 on Sunday 14. What are you going to spend money on next?New headphones mine broke 16. Do you think you’ll change in the next 3 months?Of course. Especially because ill go to mitzvah corps. 17. Who do you feel most comfortable talking to about anything?@oh-bitch-you-wary or @inconvenientcalamity18. The last time you felt broken?YesterdAy?19. Have you had sex today?... 22. Would you ever want to swim with sharks?Sign me the fuck up24. What do you want right this second?Take a shower25. What would you say if the person you love/like kissed another girl/boy?harlet 27. Would you be able to date someone who doesn’t make you laugh?No. Thats a requirement of being my friend and being my friend is a requirment for dating. 28. What was the last thing that made you laugh?Rory pooping in the hallway during the show. 29. Do you really, truly miss someone right now?@cushiestcomplaints ily so so much 30. Does everyone deserve a second chance?Depends on what they did 31. Honestly, do you hate the last boy you were talking to?No they're super nice and we've known each other since we were like 332. Does the person you have feelings for right now, know you do?Nope. Not at alllllllllll. 34. Listening to?Clinton the musical. 35. Do you ever write in pencil anymore?Mechanical pencils are where its at36. Do you know where the last person you kissed is?I hope theyre at home rn they're probably asleep37. Do you believe in love at first sight?Lust at first site yes love no38. Who did you last call?My mom 39. Who was the last person you danced with?Emma, in the wings of Annie while waiting for our cues. 40. Why did you kiss the last person you kissed?We both wanted to kiss someone and we were convenient options. 41. When was the last time you ate a cupcake?Long long ago 42. Did you hug/kiss one of your parents today?No I don't hug adult figures in my life. 44. Do you tan in the nude??46. Did you talk to someone until you fell asleep last night?No I wanna @oh-bitch-you-wary hmu47. Who was the last person to call you?My sister, to talk about the Broadway show she just saw48. Do you sing in the shower?FUCKING BELT IT49. Do you dance in the car?see above answer 51. Last time you got a portrait taken by a photographer?6th grade?52. Do you think musicals are cheesy?did you read my blog59. Take a vitamin daily?yes I'm under nourished 60. Wear slippers?No61. Wear a bath robe?I should62. What do you wear to bed?Sweats and an over large shirt63. First concert?Idk man64. Wal-Mart, Target or Kmart?Target duh65. Nike or Adidas?No66. Cheetos Or Fritos?Cheetos 67. Peanuts or Sunflower seeds?No68. Favorite Taylor Swift song?Idk73. Have you ever cried because you were so happy?Yesssssss rarely but once or twice74. What is your favorite book?DONT MAKE ME CHOOSE75. Do you study better with or without music?music I have memorized 76. Regularly burn incense?Nah78. Who would you like to see in concert?Haley kiyoko 79. What was the last concert you saw?Does Nanny Dichols count?80. Hot tea or cold tea?Hot81. Tea or coffee?Tea82. Favorite type of cookie?The good kind83. Can you swim well?Semi84. Can you hold your breath without holding your nose?Yup91. Best room for a fireplace?ALL OF THEM 92. Do you want to get married?Eventually

[ghostpalmtechnique]

[graphomanic status: possibly somewhat rambling; also this is something I would probably have gotten around to writing with or without this prompt eventually]

I disagree with this, I think.  I’ve trained myself not to hate, and I think if hate were really an emotion, I would not have been able to do this.  People make me angry.  Often.  I can’t train myself not to feel anger.  I’m not afraid of many things, but I don’t think I could really train myself out of fear for the things that remain frightening.  Anger.  Fear.  Those are primal, visceral emotions.  Hatred is only something that follows from them, if you let it.  Yoda may have been wrong about many things, but he was correct about this.  

There are better ways to channel anger and fear.  I know (at least, in the Internet sense of knowing) a lot of people who genuinely want to rid the world of suffering.  Some want to rid it of death, too.  Do the Effective Altruists and transhumanists “hate” negative utility?  Perhaps.  But suffering and death are not the outgroup.  You can’t other them with your emotions; they are already other.  

 I think this article is implying that to oppose hate is a product of the contemporary social justice movement.  I disagree with that, too.  I don’t want to write about contemporary SJ, right now.  I want to talk about my grandpa.

My grandfather was a genius.  He started college at 16 and double majored in music and electrical engineering.  He played violin with the New York Philharmonic for a year, among other things.  My grandfather was drafted into the United States Army Air Corps in 1942.  He was 28 years old; his brothers in arms called him “grandpa” then.  

Uncle Sam sent him to the European theater, to repair aircraft electronics.  After D-Day, he made his way through France, the low countries, and Denmark.  He was the only Jew in his unit.  Denmark, in particular, lived up to the reputation it developed at the time, showing him especial hospitality.  My grandfather’s military career finished in Denmark, in the story as he told it when he came home and had a family.

My grandfather would sometimes wake up screaming from nightmares, years later.  My mother and aunt did not know why.

When grandpa died and the family had to sort through his things, my mother was puzzled to find, in between the original musical compositions in Yiddish, sheet music in German.  My great-uncle told her and my aunt that my grandfather had finished the war, not in Denmark, but Germany.  And he had seen things there.

Later, passing the window of some German family’s home, my grandfather saw through the window a piano, with music laid out.  And he was incensed.  In the moment, he did not think the people who had done these things deserved anything so inherently beautiful as music.  So he broke in, and took it.

And then he came home to America, and he put it away, and he never talked about it.  Not, I think, because he was so ashamed to have stolen music, though from his perspective that would have been a very serious wrong under most circumstances.  My mother believes that he had seen enough of what hatred does, and he wanted it to end there.  He wasn’t going to teach his children to hate, and he didn’t want them to see what he had done in the moment when it overcame him.  (He did not destroy the music, because one does not do that.)

He took it quite seriously.  In that generation, I gather that the milder forms of racism were not unheard of even among Holocaust survivors. Art Spiegelman has a scene about this in Maus, which took me by surprise.  In an increasingly segregated city (in the North), my grandfather went out of his way to hire African Americans as drivers for his business, at a time when other people thought that one does not do that.

My grandpa died when I was 13.  He held on, longer than the doctors might have expected, so that he could attend the bnai mitzvah of me and my cousin.  There is very little in my own life that frustrates me more than the fact that I never got to talk to him as an adult.  He died in August, and the funeral was held  outdoors at the grave site, under a large canopy.   People came to pay their respects.  And they came.  Hundreds of them.  They did not fit under the tent.

Perhaps my grandfather was a tzaddik, and ordinary mortals cannot just decide one day that hate is a thing that can be put aside like an unpleasant memory.  But I am.  Just an ordinary mortal.  And I aspire.

I am a pragmatist and a consequentialist, and my objections to striking the first blow even in righteous anger stem from a belief that this is not the path to victory, where we end hatefulness once and for all, along with suffering.  But it is also true that I look at the literal, unambiguously depraved, Nazi marchers and, while they anger me, I do not hate them.

I learned this from my grandfather, who has seen more things than you.

[progressivejudaism]

Im a member of NFTY MAR and ive gone tto Kutz camp and i love it so much! You should totally join!

There are so many wonderful programs and opportunities for Jewish Teens out there! 

What is NFTY? Where can I hang out with other amazing Jewish High Schoolers?

How can I spend my summer at Kutz?  Or helping the world with Mitzvah Corps?  Or in Israel?

[engrqamarabbasme]

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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 • A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind. – William Shakespeare • A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.- Chanakya • A powerful combination to ensure success is having the vision of an eagle and the heart of a lion. – Robert G. Allen • A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun. – Khalil Gibran • According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in his courage, and his spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the world itself could not contain his joyous soul. – John Green • after listening to people gripe and complain just smile and remember, Crows can’t hang with eagles. – Joel Osteen • After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. “Your advice,” said Cicero, “were good if we were to fight jackdaws. – Plutarch All Birds find shelter during a rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!! – Abdul Kalam • All right.” Shimmering droplets on her eyelashes, stars caught in transition. “But will you replace it with something for me?” “Anything.” His body was hers. Brushing her fingers over his lips, she said, “You gave me an eagle. I want to give you one, too.” A tender kiss pressed to the scar. “I want us to fly together. – Nalini Singh • American Eagle can be a selling point for other young, cutting-edge companies to come to Pittsburgh – Ed Rendell • American Eagle clothing is stylish, flattering and all about embracing your individuality. – Shay Mitchell • Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.- Frederick Reines • An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, … That’s a normal process. It’s not a heroic process. – Frank Bruno • An eagle uses the negative energy of a storm to fly even higher. – Eric Thomas • An oak tree and a rosebush grew, Young and green together, Talking the talk of growing things- Wind and water and weather. And while the rosebush sweetly bloomed The oak tree grew so high That now it spoke of newer things- Eagles, mountain peaks and sky. “I guess you think you’re pretty great,” The rose was heard to cry, Screaming as loud as it possibly could To the treetop in the sky. “And now you have no time for flower talk, Now that you’ve grown so tall.” “It’s not so much that I’ve grown,” said the tree, “It’s just that you’ve stayed so small. – Shel Silverstein • And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun. – Khalil Gibran • And little eagles wave their wings in gold. – Alexander Pope • Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander’s banner fly, The Black Eagle with double head. And shouts ascend on high …..” Long live Scanderbeg. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses. – Alan Watts • As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House. – Zakk Wylde • As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. – Helen Keller • At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life. – James D. Watson • At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture. – Vance Havner • Auguries of innocence “The emmet’s inch and eagle’s mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne’er believe, do what you please. – William Blake

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  • Baby eagles can never soar under their family’s wing. – Liu Yang • Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign? – T. S. Eliot • Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler’s Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah. – David Mamet • Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses. – Edward Abbey • But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind. – William Shakespeare • But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly. – Terry Pratchett • Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover. – Napoleon Hill • Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen. – Henry Winter • Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance. – David Burge • Did you ever know that you’re my hero, you’re everything I wish I could be. I could fly higher than an eagle with you as the wind beneath my wings. – Gary Morris • Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word. – William Tyndale • Don’t be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God’s altitude for your life. – Myles Munroe • Don’t look down, it’s an impossible view; Fly like an eagle whatever you do.- Mos Def • Don’t quack like a duck, soar like an eagle. – Ken Blanchard • Don’t waste your time trying to turn ducks into eagles. Hire people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar. – Jim Rohn • Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn’t know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That’s what gave her such power over us. The doctor took her into a room with a desk at the end of the hall, and from under the closed door a slab of brilliance radiated as if, by some stupendous process, diamonds were being incinerated in there. What a pair of lungs! She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it! I’ve gone looking for that feeling everywhere. – Denis Johnson • Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. – Sitting Bull • Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights. – Sitting Bull • Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand, And on the sun’s noon-glory gaze; With eye like his, thy lids expand, And fringe their disk with golden rays: Though fix’d on earth, in darkness rooted there, Light is thy element, thy dwelling air, Thy prospect heaven. – James Montgomery • Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals! – Mehmet Murat Ildan • Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo. – Douglas Coupland • Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory, they are the most susceptible to being discouraged. – Jim Elliot • Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. – E. F. Schumacher • Eagles don’t catch flies. – Desiderius Erasmus • Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do. – T. D. Jakes • Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines. – Steven Wright • Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family. – James L. Jones • Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for what is left behind. Remaining in the recognition of the absolute view, you should leave this life like an eagle soaring up into the blue sky. – Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche • Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express their relationship with nature. Ashes and Snow is a 21st-century bestiary filled with species from around the world. Nature’s orchestra includes not just Homo sapiens but elephants, whales, manatees, eagles, cheetahs, orangutans, and many others.- Gregory Colbert • Every house was festooned with flowers and with lanterns. On the national day, the whole country went wild with joy, But on that very day, I was placed in chains and transferred: The wind remains contrary to the flight of the eagle. – Ho Chi Minh • Eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man. – Dejan Stojanovic • Farewell,” they cried, “Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey’s end!” That is the polite thing to say among eagles. “May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks,” answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply. – J. R. R. Tolkien • Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. – Elizabeth Bowen • Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” Piper leaned over the console. “Are you sure they’re Roman?” Leo rolled his eyes. “No, Pipes. It could be a random group of giant eagles flying in perfect formation. Of course they’re Roman! – Rick Riordan • Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain’t no bird that’s my equal. – Twilight – Kathryn Lasky • Fly, on your way, like an eagle / Fly as high as the Sun.- Bruce Dickinson • Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me. – John Dryden • For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful green solitude. – John Clare • Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton • From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man. – Bette Midler • From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought. – Victor Hugo • God created us with an overwhelming desire to soar. Our desire to develop and use every ounce of potential He’s placed in us is not egotistical. He designed us to be tremendously productive and “to mount up with wings like eagles,” realistically dreaming of what He can do with our potential. – Carol Kent • God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. – John Piper • God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus. – John Piper • Golden eagles don`t mate with bald eagles, deer don`t mate with antelope, gray wolves don`t mate with red wolves. Just look at domesticated animals, at mongrel dogs, and mixed breed horses, and you`ll know the Great Mystery didn`t intend them to be that way. We weakened the species and introduced disease by mixing what should be kept seperate. Among humans, intermarriage weakens the respect people have for themselves and for their traditions. It undermines clarity of spirit and mind. – Russell Means • Golden eagles have an interesting way of mating, where they connect in the air while flying at eighty miles an hour and then they start dropping and they don’t stop dropping until the act is completed. So it’s not uncommon that they both fall all the way to the ground, hit the ground and both of them die. That’s how committed they are to this. I thought to myself, ‘Boy, don’t we feel like wimps for stopping to answer the phone.’ I don’t know about you, but if I’m one of these two birds, you’re getting close to the ground… I would serioulsy consider fakin’ it. – Ellen DeGeneres • Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. – Arthur Schopenhauer • He worked night and day. He made a coat that would transform him; he would be more than a man; a winged creature, beautiful as light. All the birds brought him feathers. Even the eagle. Even the swan. – Catherine Fisher • Heaven begun is the living proof that makes the heaven to come credible. Christ in you is “the hope of glory.” It is the eagle eye of faith which penetrates the grave, and sees far into the tranquil things of death. He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already. – Frederick William Robertson • High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the clouds, high over the clouds gleam the stars… high over the stars sweep the angels. – Heinrich Heine • Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises. – Ambrose Bierce • Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed. – Neil Armstrong • How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle’s is its sight. – Franz Grillparzer • How sublime Upon a time-blanch’d cliff to muse, and, while The eagle glories in a sea of air, To mingle with the scene around! – Survey The sun-warm heaven. – Robert Montgomery • I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn’t have a zip code. It’s too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn’t farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award. – Rick Perry • I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun. – Edward Abbey • I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I’d like to be an eagle. Who hasn’t dreamed they could fly? They’re a protected species, too. – Lee Trevino • I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air. I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider. – J. R. R. Tolkien • I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me. – Michael Moore • I didn’t live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles. – George Thorogood • I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior, but we are after all a mere part of the Creation. And we must continue to understand where we are. And we stand between the mountain and the ant, somewhere and there only, as part of the Creation. – Oren Lyons • I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior. – Oren Lyons • I don’t have to play for the Eagles. – Terrell Owens • I don’t mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I’m not one of those artists who’s going to sit here and deny the past. – Don Henley • I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows. – Truman Capote • I enjoy my solo career because I get to play smaller places like clubs and theaters, and the interaction with the audience is much higher quality. It also sounds better than a baseball stadium. Everybody has a good seat, and I don’t have to play a specific part like I do in the Eagles. – Joe Walsh • I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn’t know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government. – Lloyd Bentsen • I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die. – Alexandre Dumas • I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed there. In the fall his erstwhile companions passed overhead and his first impulse was to rise and join them, but he had fed too well and could rise no higher than the eaves of the barn. The day came when his old fellow travelers could pass overhead without his even hearing their call. I have seen men and women who once mounted up with wings like eagles but are now content to live in the barnyard of this world.- Vance Havner • I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably someone who could write and had a high voice. That was me. – Timothy B. Schmit • I know he’d be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly. – John Denver • I know that there are some people who are perpetually negative. I sincerely believe that if you want to fly with the eagles you cannot afford to walk with the turkeys. I will walk away from those people when they start to attack the vision. – Phil Pringle • I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more like the buffalo than the eagle. The eagle is a powerful bird. It flies alone. It rises up into the sky with authority. It is master of all it surveys. The eagle is an individualist and was selected from among the rest of the birds to be our symbol. But the buffalo was never alone. It always ran in a herd with other buffaloes. And, friends, I call your attention that the buffaloes are gone from the open range, but the eagles are still soaring. – Norman Vincent Peale • I think I did enough to make it. I think I made it as hard as possible for them to cut me by showing them what I can do. I think it’s going to come down to numbers. I’m just going to wait, pray and hope it’s God’s will that I’m going to be on the Eagles. My first goal was to make this squad but if not, hopefully another team saw what I did and will want me. – Jeremy Thornburg • I think the Jets came in with a legitimate offer. At that point, I hadn’t had one from the Eagles. I had to think, ‘I’ve really got to work up here [in New York]? Do you really want to deal with that on a weekly basis? – Jon Runyan • I was born by God’s dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly. – Aaron Tippin • I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. – Benjamin Franklin • I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose. – Gerald R. Ford • I’d rather have my teeth drilled than listen to that awful song, ‘Fly, Eagles Fly.’ – Chris Christie • If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights. – Andy Andrews • If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me? – Isak Dinesen • If I were an animal, I would be an eagle. – Jamie Foxx • 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. – Steve Harvey • If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money. – Glenn Frey • If the Police could do a reunion… One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It’s not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It’s just rock and roll – Steven Adler • If we will only surrender ourselves utterly to the Lord, and will trust Him perfectly, we shall find our souls “mounting up with wings as eagles” to the “heavenly places” in Christ Jesus, where earthly annoyances or sorrows have no power to disturb us. – Hannah Whitall Smith • If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come. – Frederick Douglass • If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles. – Brian Tracy • If you want to fly with eagles, stop swimming with ducks. – T. Harv Eker • If you want to fly with the eagles you can’t hang out with the crows. – Brock Lesnar • If you want to fly with the eagles, don’t swim with the ducks! – T. Harv Eker • If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can’t be flocking with the turkeys. – Warren Buffett • I’ll always be a Golden Eagle – Dwyane Wade • I’m a longtime fan of American Eagle, so when they approached me about joining their ‘Live Your Life’ campaign, it already felt like an organic fit. – Shay Mitchell • I’m certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I’m quite proud of. – Don Henley • I’m gonna say it one more time. We are Georgia Southern. Our colors are blue and white. We call ourselves the Bald Eagles. We call our offense the Georgia Power Companyand that’s a terrific name for an offense. Our snap count is ‘rate, hike.’ We practice on the banks of Beautiful Eagle Creek and that’s in Statesboro, Georgia-the gnat capital of America. Our weekends begin on Thursday. The co-eds outnumber the men 3 to 2. They’re all good looking and they’re all rich. And folks, you just can’t beat that and you just can’t beat Georgia Southern. And you ain’t seen nothin yet! – Erk Russell • I’m not going to mortgage the Eagles’ future for Marcus Mariota. – Chip Kelly • In days of yore, the poet’s pen From wing of bird was plunder’d, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove’s own eagle sunder’d. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet’s numbers; In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers. – John Adams • In leadership we teach we teach;Don’t send your ducks to eagle school because it wont help.Ducks finishes eagle school,sees his first rabbit, makes him a friend. – Jim Rohn • Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle. – George Bancroft • It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high. – Pindar • It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto. We see a great ship swims as well as a small cork, and an eagle flies in the air as well as a little gnat. ‘Tis likely enough that there may be means invented of journeying to the Moon; and how happy they shall be that are first successful in this attempt. – John Wilkins • It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.- Jane Swisshelm • It’s a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles. – Karen Armstrong • It’s hard to soar with the eagles when you’re surrounded by turkeys. – Adam Sandler • I’ve always thought the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The right wing would see to it that economic interests had their legitimate concerns addressed. The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it’s no longer an eagle and it’s going to crash. – Bill Moyers • I’ve got my old favorites like The Eagles and Bon Jovi.- Niall Horan • Just as eagles soar through the vast expanse of the sky without meeting any obstructions, needing only minimal effort to maintain their flight, so advanced meditators concentrating on emptiness can meditate on emptiness for a long time with little effort. Their minds soar through space-like emptiness, undistracted by any other phenomenon. When we meditate on emptiness we should try to emulate these meditators. – Geshe Kelsang Gyatso • Larry Flynt, running for governor of California. His goal – change our state bird to the spread eagle.- Craig Kilborn • Lately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame. – Waylon Jennings • Leaders are like eagles… they don’t flock. You’ll find them one at a time. – Knute Rockne • Leaders take eagles and teach them to fly in formation. – D. Wayne Calloway • Let them make their war. Whence come night and day? Whence will the eagle become gray? Whence is it that night is dark? Whence is it that the linnet is green? The ebullition of the sea, – How is it not seen? – Taliesin • Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one. – Elbert Hubbard • Like the eagle, we (artists) must be able to see clearly. – Jack White • Like two eagles soar as one upon the river of the wind with the promise of forever, we will take the past and learn how to begin. – Pocahontas • My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest. My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well. My heart will be strong as a great oak. My spirit will spread an eagle’s wings, and fly forth. – Juliet Marillier • My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got. – Kerry King • My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I hold, But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind. – William Shakespeare • My grandfather would have loved to have met you,” he told her huskily. “He would have called you ‘She Moves Trees Out of His Path.’ ” She looked lost, but his da laughed. He’d known the old man, too. “He called me ‘He Who Must Run into Trees,'” Charles explained, and in a spirit of honesty, a need for his mate to know who he was, he continued, “or sometimes ‘Running Eagle.’ ” ” ‘Running Eagle’?” Anna puzzled it over, frowning at him. “What’s wrong with that?” “Too stupid to fly,” murmured his father with a little smile.- Patricia Briggs • My jaw dropped open. Holy crows…There’s a couple of eagles mixed in there, Luke commented.And a few hawks, Aiden added.I rolled my eyes. Okay. Holy birds of prey! Is that better?Much, Aiden murmured. – J. Lynn • My name ain’t Steve Miller, but I fly like an Eagle. – Coolio • My spirit is too weak–mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin’d pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky. – John Keats • News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.- Gene Fowler • Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro’ the clouds he drives the trembling doves. – Alexander Pope • Om rubed his head. This wasn’t god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it wasn’t a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We’re like eagles up here, he thought. Sometimes we show tortoise how to fly. Then we let go. – Terry Pratchett • Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magesterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my tent. It was a scene of peerless tranquility, tossed out in Nautre’s devil-may-care way, which says: Just open your eyes, my friend, and I’ll astonish you every minute of your life. – Lawrence Millman • One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows. – Edith Roosevelt • One hundred sparrow does not make one eagle. – Mehmet Murat Ildan • Percy and Reyna occupied matching praeters’ chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bedsheet and a purple cape. “The camp is safe,” Octavian continued. ” I’ll be the first to congragulate our heroes for bringing back the legion’s eagle and so much Imperial gold! Truly we have been blessed with good fortune. But why do more? Why tempt fate?” “I’m glad you asked.” Percy stood, taking the question as an opening. Octavian stammered, ” I wasn’t–” “–Part of the quest,” Percy said. “Yes I know. And your’e wise to let me explain, since I was. – Rick Riordan • Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they. – William Cowper • September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.–from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001 – Aberjhani • Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle. – Alfred Lord Tennyson • She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through it, silent death. It was a place where snakes could slither and bogs could suck the shoe right off your foot. And it was a place, she thought, that went bright and beautiful with the twinkling of fireflies, where wildflowers thrived in the shade and the stingy light. Where an eagle could soar like a king. There was no beauty without risk. No life without it. – Nora Roberts • So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others’ hands, Are we now smitten.- Aeschylus • So it ends as I guessed it would,’ his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within him ere it fled, almost gay it seemed to be casting off all doubt and care and fear. And even as it winged away into forgetfulness it heard voices, and they seemed to be crying in some forgotten world far above: ‘The eagles are coming! The eagles are coming!’ For one moment more Pippin’s thought hovered. “Bilbo! But no! That came in his tale, long long ago. This is my tale, and it ended now. Good-bye!’ And his thought fled far away and his eyes saw no more. – J. R. R. Tolkien • So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired. – Ivan Turgenev • So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya’s name because it was the first that came to mind, because in that moment she didn’t want to get expelled and she couldn’t think past that moment. She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she’d been scared of being paralyzed by fear again. ~Miles/Pudge on Alaska, pg 120-121 – John Green • So the struck eagle, stretch’d upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View’d his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing’d the shaft that quiver’d in his heart. – Lord Byron • Some relate . . . that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if they cannot look steadily on, she rejects them as spurious. We may truly try our faith by immediate intuitions of the Sun of Righteousness. Direct faith to act itself, immediately and directly on the incarnation of Christ and His mediation; and if it be not the right kind and race, it will turn its eyes aside to anything else. – John Owen • Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California. – Glenn Frey • Somebody has to go polish the stars, They’re looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, For the eagles and starlings and gulls Have all been complaining they’re tarnished and worn, They say they want new ones we cannot afford. So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars. – Shel Silverstein • Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren – Anne Sexton • Spring One. Spring One. I am Eagle. I am Eagle. I can hear you very well. I feel excellent. My feeling is excellent.- Gherman Titov • Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies. – Billy Squier • That eagle’s fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.- Edmund Waller • That just shows you their type of class and integrity. They claim to be first class and the best organization. It’s an embarrassment and it shows the lack of class that they really have…..The Eagles would be undefeated right now with Green Bay’s quarterback. We’d probably be in a much better position with him on the team (instead of present Eagles quarterback Donavon McNabb). – Terrell Owens • That kind of tenderness couldn’t be permitted to last. You only got a taste, enough to know what perfection meant, and then you paid for it the rest of your life. Like the guy chained to a rock, who stole fire. The gods made an eagle eat his liver for all eternity. You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal. – Janet Fitch • The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it’s own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.- June Callwood • The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird. – Seth Grahame-Smith • The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove. – Horace • The correct answer is the University Titans, the West Valley Eagles, the Central Valley Bears, the East Valley Knights, the Riverside Rams. The fact you don’t even know an answer to the question like [naming all the Spokane Valley High School Mascots] means you don’t even know the district. How can you represent the district if you don’t even know it? – Matt Shea • The ‘Crue’ is not the hardest band to cover. There are no harmonies like the Eagles.- Brian Miller • The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • The Democrats talked about putting people first. Well, they put people first unless you happen to be a spotted owl or a giant garter snake or some other endangered species and then that seems to have priority. Obviously, you take the bald eagle and things of that sort, of course you’re going to make sure that they are saved and that they can live and you’re going to take every precaution that you can. But others – we just need a little flexibility. – Dan Quayle • The Eagle does not escape the storm. The Eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on the winds that bring the storm. – Jack White • The eagle had two natural enemies: storms and serpents. He embraced the storm, waiting on the rock for the right thermal current and then using that to carry him higher. While other birds were taking cover, the eagle was soaring. An eagle would never fight against the storms of life. – Karen Kingsbury • The Eagle has landed. – Neil Armstrong • The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror! – Joyce Meyer • The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • The eagle may soar; beavers build dams. – Bill Vaughan • The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow – William Blake • The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome. – William – Shakespeare • The eagle suffers little birds to sing.- William Shakespeare • The eagle that soars in the upper air does not worry itself how it is to cross rivers. – Gladys Aylward • The Eagle, he was lord above – William Wordsworth • The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends. – Don Henley • The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time. – Don Henley • The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson’s henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She found herself wondering if the Lord was going to send her an eagle to fly her those four miles, or send Elijah in his fiery chariot to give her a lift. Blasphemy,” she told herself complacently. “The Lord provides strength, not taxicabs. – Stephen King • The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle’s wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel. – Sidney Sheldon • The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. – Aesop • The Justice Department ruled that Native American tribes are allowed to grow and sell marijuana on reservations. This decision was hailed as a victory by Native American leader Giggling Eagle. – Conan O’Brien • The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill. – Glenn Frey • The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out. – Benito Mussolini • The little and the great are joined in one By God’s great force. The wondrous golden sun Is linked unto the glow-worm’s tiny spark; The eagle soars to heaven in his flight; And in those realms of space, all bathed in light, Soar none except the eagle and the lark. – Emma Lazarus • The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. An just so does our God to us. – Hannah Whitall Smith • The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle. – Abraham Lincoln • The sharp knife of dawn glitters in my hand but how bare is everything-tall tall tree infinite air, the unrelaxing tension of the world and only hope, hope only, the kind eagle soars and wheels in flight. – Martin Carter • The sun is a huntress young, The sun is a red, red joy, The sun is an Indian girl, Of the tribe of the Illinois. The sun is a smouldering fire, That creeps through the high gray plain, And leaves not a bush of cloud.To blossom with flowers of rain. The sun is a wounded deer, That treads pale grass in the skies, Shaking his golden horns, Flashing his baleful eyes. The sun is an eagle old, There in the windless west. Atop of the spirit-cliffs He builds him a crimson nest. – Vachel Lindsay • The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon, the whisper of spruce needles, or the screech of an eagle. But he will not make friends with any of these creatures and when his heart aches with longing, he will curse me. Have I done all to keep the air fresh? Have I cared enough about the water? Have I left the eagle to soar in freedom? Have I done everything I could to earn my grandchild’s fondness?- Chief Dan George • The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. – William Shakespeare • There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar. – Herman Melville • There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. – Carl Sandburg • There is an eagle in me that wants to soar. – Carl Sandburg • There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed. – Shawn Colvin • They say, ‘The coward dies many times’; so does the beloved. Didn’t the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined? – C. S. Lewis • Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle. – Martin Farquhar Tupper • Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. – Tobias Smollett • To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, ‘Look at my two noble friends — they are dumb, but they are loyal.’ I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant. – Beryl Markham • To object that the facts about human nature set limits on our ability to change the world and ourselves makes about as much sense as the lament that our lack of wings sets limits on our ability to ‘fly’ as far as eagles under our own power. – Noam Chomsky • We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb. – Shane Claiborne • We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumes flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle: these are our brothers. All things are connected like the blood which unites one’s family. – Chief Seattle • We gotta be free – The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women – Yip Harburg • We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams, light and heat. Election is a sun, the eyes of eagles cannot see it, yet we may find it in the heat of vocation, in the light of illumination, in the beams of good works. – Thomas Adams • We may talk what we please, he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.” – Abraham Cowley • We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests. – Franklin D. Roosevelt • We need a good strong opposition and I don’t know whether it’s any coincidence that we need Angela Eagle in Labour and we need Theresa May to lead the Conservative party, both of whom of course are women. – Anna Soubry • We’re definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock – the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side – her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he’s a big fan of the Eagles and like that.- Charles Kelley • What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears. – Brennan Manning • When day begins to break I count my blessings, good and bad, Being wakeful for your sake, Remembering the covenant we’ve always had, What eagle look your face still shows, While up from my heart’s root So great a sweetness flows I shake from head to foot. – P. C. Cast • When the Eagle landed on the moon, I was speechless—overwhelmed, like most of the world. Couldn’t say a word. I think all I said was, ‘Wow! Jeez!’ Not exactly immortal. Well, I was nothing if not human. – Walter Cronkite • When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. – Winston Churchill • Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him – Kenneth Wapnick • Why fly like a hen when you can soar like an eagle? – Pio of Pietrelcina • Wine transforms moles into eagles. – Charles Baudelaire • Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean. – Glenn Frey • Yeah, I had it all mapped out actually. Seriously. I wrote it down. I said, ‘When I’m the head coach of the Eagles, I’m going to make sure I get that guy on my team.’ And then guy next to me was like, ‘You’re only the offensive coordinator at New Hampshire.’ I said, ‘Don’t worry about it. Minor details. But it’s going to work.’ – Chip Kelly • Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad. – Jean Rhys • You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don’t hold onto the old man, the world; don’t refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: ‘The world is passing away; the world is losing its grip; the world is short of breath. Don’t fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.’ – Saint Augustine • You are the mountain, you are the rock You are the cord and you’re the spark You are the eagle, you are the lark You are the world and you’re remarkable You’re the ocean eating the shore You are the calm inside the storm You’re every emotion, you can endure You are the world and the world is yours. ((The World as I See It)) – Jason Mraz • You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle. – William J. Clinton • You can’t cage an eagle for long without destroying it. – Patricia Briggs • You can’t criticize Bob Dylan’s singing. You have to respect Billy Joel as a brilliant poet. You can’t tell me there’s a better rock band ever than Led Zeppelin. And if you speak during the Eagles’ “Last Resort,” we’re done. I’m just asking for seven minutes. This stuff really matters, you know. – Charlie Sheen • You can’t hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles – Hubert H. Humphrey • You can’t soar like an eagle and crap like a canary. – Ed Sabol • You know, I’m an eagle, flying around in the mountains. – Link Wray • You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world. – Tom Petty • 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! – J. R. R. Tolkien • Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles. – Brian Tracy

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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 • A lover’s eyes will gaze an eagle blind. – William Shakespeare • A man attains greatness by his merits, not simply by occupying an exalted seat. Can we call a crow an eagle (garuda) simply because he sits on the top of a tall building.- Chanakya • A powerful combination to ensure success is having the vision of an eagle and the heart of a lion. – Robert G. Allen • A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun. – Khalil Gibran • According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in his courage, and his spirit soared like an indomitable eagle until the world itself could not contain his joyous soul. – John Green • after listening to people gripe and complain just smile and remember, Crows can’t hang with eagles. – Joel Osteen • After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. “Your advice,” said Cicero, “were good if we were to fight jackdaws. – Plutarch All Birds find shelter during a rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!! – Abdul Kalam • All right.” Shimmering droplets on her eyelashes, stars caught in transition. “But will you replace it with something for me?” “Anything.” His body was hers. Brushing her fingers over his lips, she said, “You gave me an eagle. I want to give you one, too.” A tender kiss pressed to the scar. “I want us to fly together. – Nalini Singh • American Eagle can be a selling point for other young, cutting-edge companies to come to Pittsburgh – Ed Rendell • American Eagle clothing is stylish, flattering and all about embracing your individuality. – Shay Mitchell • Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually achieving the rank of Eagle Scout and undertaking leadership roles in the organization.- Frederick Reines • An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, … That’s a normal process. It’s not a heroic process. – Frank Bruno • An eagle uses the negative energy of a storm to fly even higher. – Eric Thomas • An oak tree and a rosebush grew, Young and green together, Talking the talk of growing things- Wind and water and weather. And while the rosebush sweetly bloomed The oak tree grew so high That now it spoke of newer things- Eagles, mountain peaks and sky. “I guess you think you’re pretty great,” The rose was heard to cry, Screaming as loud as it possibly could To the treetop in the sky. “And now you have no time for flower talk, Now that you’ve grown so tall.” “It’s not so much that I’ve grown,” said the tree, “It’s just that you’ve stayed so small. – Shel Silverstein • And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun. – Khalil Gibran • And little eagles wave their wings in gold. – Alexander Pope • Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander’s banner fly, The Black Eagle with double head. And shouts ascend on high …..” Long live Scanderbeg. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses. – Alan Watts • As much as I love heavy riffs, I like The Eagles, Neil Young, Elton John, Crowded House. – Zakk Wylde • As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill. – Helen Keller • At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life. – James D. Watson • At the rate America is decaying morally, we shall have to change our national symbol from an eagle to a vulture. – Vance Havner • Auguries of innocence “The emmet’s inch and eagle’s mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne’er believe, do what you please. – William Blake

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  • Baby eagles can never soar under their family’s wing. – Liu Yang • Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man’s gift and that man’s scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign? – T. S. Eliot • Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler’s Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah. – David Mamet • Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses. – Edward Abbey • But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind. – William Shakespeare • But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly. – Terry Pratchett • Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover. – Napoleon Hill • Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen. – Henry Winter • Compared to the typical Zim/Chomsky-spouting grad school clown, a trucker with a screaming eagle hat is a paragon of political nuance. – David Burge • Did you ever know that you’re my hero, you’re everything I wish I could be. I could fly higher than an eagle with you as the wind beneath my wings. – Gary Morris • Do you know who taught the eagles to find their prey? Well, that same God teaches His hungry children to find their Father in His Word. – William Tyndale • Don’t be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God’s altitude for your life. – Myles Munroe • Don’t look down, it’s an impossible view; Fly like an eagle whatever you do.- Mos Def • Don’t quack like a duck, soar like an eagle. – Ken Blanchard • Don’t waste your time trying to turn ducks into eagles. Hire people who already have the motivation and drive to be eagles and then just let them soar. – Jim Rohn • Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn’t know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That’s what gave her such power over us. The doctor took her into a room with a desk at the end of the hall, and from under the closed door a slab of brilliance radiated as if, by some stupendous process, diamonds were being incinerated in there. What a pair of lungs! She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it! I’ve gone looking for that feeling everywhere. – Denis Johnson • Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. – Sitting Bull • Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights. – Sitting Bull • Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand, And on the sun’s noon-glory gaze; With eye like his, thy lids expand, And fringe their disk with golden rays: Though fix’d on earth, in darkness rooted there, Light is thy element, thy dwelling air, Thy prospect heaven. – James Montgomery • Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals! – Mehmet Murat Ildan • Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo. – Douglas Coupland • Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory, they are the most susceptible to being discouraged. – Jim Elliot • Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. – E. F. Schumacher • Eagles don’t catch flies. – Desiderius Erasmus • Eagles fly where lesser birds cannot fly, so eagles can do what lesser birds cannot do. – T. D. Jakes • Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines. – Steven Wright • Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family. – James L. Jones • Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for what is left behind. Remaining in the recognition of the absolute view, you should leave this life like an eagle soaring up into the blue sky. – Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche • Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express their relationship with nature. Ashes and Snow is a 21st-century bestiary filled with species from around the world. Nature’s orchestra includes not just Homo sapiens but elephants, whales, manatees, eagles, cheetahs, orangutans, and many others.- Gregory Colbert • Every house was festooned with flowers and with lanterns. On the national day, the whole country went wild with joy, But on that very day, I was placed in chains and transferred: The wind remains contrary to the flight of the eagle. – Ho Chi Minh • Eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man. – Dejan Stojanovic • Farewell,” they cried, “Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey’s end!” That is the polite thing to say among eagles. “May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks,” answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply. – J. R. R. Tolkien • Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. – Elizabeth Bowen • Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” Piper leaned over the console. “Are you sure they’re Roman?” Leo rolled his eyes. “No, Pipes. It could be a random group of giant eagles flying in perfect formation. Of course they’re Roman! – Rick Riordan • Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain’t no bird that’s my equal. – Twilight – Kathryn Lasky • Fly, on your way, like an eagle / Fly as high as the Sun.- Bruce Dickinson • Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me. – John Dryden • For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful green solitude. – John Clare • Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton • From a distance the world looks blue and green, and the snow-capped mountains white. From a distance the ocean meets the stream, and the eagle takes to flight. From a distance, there is harmony, and it echoes through the land. It’s the voice of hope, it’s the voice of peace, it’s the voice of every man. – Bette Midler • From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought. – Victor Hugo • God created us with an overwhelming desire to soar. Our desire to develop and use every ounce of potential He’s placed in us is not egotistical. He designed us to be tremendously productive and “to mount up with wings like eagles,” realistically dreaming of what He can do with our potential. – Carol Kent • God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. – John Piper • God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings. He is looking for people who will leave father and mother and homeland or anything else that may hold them back from a life of love under the wings of Jesus. – John Piper • Golden eagles don`t mate with bald eagles, deer don`t mate with antelope, gray wolves don`t mate with red wolves. Just look at domesticated animals, at mongrel dogs, and mixed breed horses, and you`ll know the Great Mystery didn`t intend them to be that way. We weakened the species and introduced disease by mixing what should be kept seperate. Among humans, intermarriage weakens the respect people have for themselves and for their traditions. It undermines clarity of spirit and mind. – Russell Means • Golden eagles have an interesting way of mating, where they connect in the air while flying at eighty miles an hour and then they start dropping and they don’t stop dropping until the act is completed. So it’s not uncommon that they both fall all the way to the ground, hit the ground and both of them die. That’s how committed they are to this. I thought to myself, ‘Boy, don’t we feel like wimps for stopping to answer the phone.’ I don’t know about you, but if I’m one of these two birds, you’re getting close to the ground… I would serioulsy consider fakin’ it. – Ellen DeGeneres • Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. – Arthur Schopenhauer • He worked night and day. He made a coat that would transform him; he would be more than a man; a winged creature, beautiful as light. All the birds brought him feathers. Even the eagle. Even the swan. – Catherine Fisher • Heaven begun is the living proof that makes the heaven to come credible. Christ in you is “the hope of glory.” It is the eagle eye of faith which penetrates the grave, and sees far into the tranquil things of death. He alone can believe in immortality who feels the resurrection in him already. – Frederick William Robertson • High in the air rises the forest of oaks, high over the oaks soar the eagle, high over the eagle sweep the clouds, high over the clouds gleam the stars… high over the stars sweep the angels. – Heinrich Heine • Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises. – Ambrose Bierce • Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed. – Neil Armstrong • How can you say that love is blind? Keener than a young eagle’s is its sight. – Franz Grillparzer • How sublime Upon a time-blanch’d cliff to muse, and, while The eagle glories in a sea of air, To mingle with the scene around! – Survey The sun-warm heaven. – Robert Montgomery • I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn’t have a zip code. It’s too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn’t farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award. – Rick Perry • I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun. – Edward Abbey • I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I’d like to be an eagle. Who hasn’t dreamed they could fly? They’re a protected species, too. – Lee Trevino • I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air. I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider. – J. R. R. Tolkien • I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me. – Michael Moore • I didn’t live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles. – George Thorogood • I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior, but we are after all a mere part of the Creation. And we must continue to understand where we are. And we stand between the mountain and the ant, somewhere and there only, as part of the Creation. – Oren Lyons • I do not see a delegation for the four-footed. I see no seat for the eagles. We forget and we consider ourselves superior. – Oren Lyons • I don’t have to play for the Eagles. – Terrell Owens • I don’t mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I’m not one of those artists who’s going to sit here and deny the past. – Don Henley • I dream of eagles and bring forth sparrows. – Truman Capote • I enjoy my solo career because I get to play smaller places like clubs and theaters, and the interaction with the audience is much higher quality. It also sounds better than a baseball stadium. Everybody has a good seat, and I don’t have to play a specific part like I do in the Eagles. – Joe Walsh • I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn’t know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government. – Lloyd Bentsen • I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die. – Alexandre Dumas • I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed there. In the fall his erstwhile companions passed overhead and his first impulse was to rise and join them, but he had fed too well and could rise no higher than the eaves of the barn. The day came when his old fellow travelers could pass overhead without his even hearing their call. I have seen men and women who once mounted up with wings like eagles but are now content to live in the barnyard of this world.- Vance Havner • I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably someone who could write and had a high voice. That was me. – Timothy B. Schmit • I know he’d be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly. – John Denver • I know that there are some people who are perpetually negative. I sincerely believe that if you want to fly with the eagles you cannot afford to walk with the turkeys. I will walk away from those people when they start to attack the vision. – Phil Pringle • I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more like the buffalo than the eagle. The eagle is a powerful bird. It flies alone. It rises up into the sky with authority. It is master of all it surveys. The eagle is an individualist and was selected from among the rest of the birds to be our symbol. But the buffalo was never alone. It always ran in a herd with other buffaloes. And, friends, I call your attention that the buffaloes are gone from the open range, but the eagles are still soaring. – Norman Vincent Peale • I think I did enough to make it. I think I made it as hard as possible for them to cut me by showing them what I can do. I think it’s going to come down to numbers. I’m just going to wait, pray and hope it’s God’s will that I’m going to be on the Eagles. My first goal was to make this squad but if not, hopefully another team saw what I did and will want me. – Jeremy Thornburg • I think the Jets came in with a legitimate offer. At that point, I hadn’t had one from the Eagles. I had to think, ‘I’ve really got to work up here [in New York]? Do you really want to deal with that on a weekly basis? – Jon Runyan • I was born by God’s dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly. – Aaron Tippin • I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America. – Benjamin Franklin • I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose. – Gerald R. Ford • I’d rather have my teeth drilled than listen to that awful song, ‘Fly, Eagles Fly.’ – Chris Christie • If I associate with chickens, I will learn to scratch at the ground and squabble over crumbs. If I associate with eagles, I will learn to soar to great heights. – Andy Andrews • If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me? – Isak Dinesen • If I were an animal, I would be an eagle. – Jamie Foxx • 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. – Steve Harvey • If the Eagles were to get back together, it would have to be for the right reasons. I think it would look awful if it were just for the money. – Glenn Frey • If the Police could do a reunion… One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It’s not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It’s just rock and roll – Steven Adler • If we will only surrender ourselves utterly to the Lord, and will trust Him perfectly, we shall find our souls “mounting up with wings as eagles” to the “heavenly places” in Christ Jesus, where earthly annoyances or sorrows have no power to disturb us. – Hannah Whitall Smith • If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come. – Frederick Douglass • If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles. – Brian Tracy • If you want to fly with eagles, stop swimming with ducks. – T. Harv Eker • If you want to fly with the eagles you can’t hang out with the crows. – Brock Lesnar • If you want to fly with the eagles, don’t swim with the ducks! – T. Harv Eker • If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can’t be flocking with the turkeys. – Warren Buffett • I’ll always be a Golden Eagle – Dwyane Wade • I’m a longtime fan of American Eagle, so when they approached me about joining their ‘Live Your Life’ campaign, it already felt like an organic fit. – Shay Mitchell • I’m certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I’m quite proud of. – Don Henley • I’m gonna say it one more time. We are Georgia Southern. Our colors are blue and white. We call ourselves the Bald Eagles. We call our offense the Georgia Power Companyand that’s a terrific name for an offense. Our snap count is ‘rate, hike.’ We practice on the banks of Beautiful Eagle Creek and that’s in Statesboro, Georgia-the gnat capital of America. Our weekends begin on Thursday. The co-eds outnumber the men 3 to 2. They’re all good looking and they’re all rich. And folks, you just can’t beat that and you just can’t beat Georgia Southern. And you ain’t seen nothin yet! – Erk Russell • I’m not going to mortgage the Eagles’ future for Marcus Mariota. – Chip Kelly • In days of yore, the poet’s pen From wing of bird was plunder’d, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove’s own eagle sunder’d. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet’s numbers; In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers. – John Adams • In leadership we teach we teach;Don’t send your ducks to eagle school because it wont help.Ducks finishes eagle school,sees his first rabbit, makes him a friend. – Jim Rohn • Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle. – George Bancroft • It is God that accomplishes all term to hopes, God, who overtakes the flying eagle, outpasses the dolphin in the sea; who bends under his strength the man with thoughts too high. – Pindar • It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto. We see a great ship swims as well as a small cork, and an eagle flies in the air as well as a little gnat. ‘Tis likely enough that there may be means invented of journeying to the Moon; and how happy they shall be that are first successful in this attempt. – John Wilkins • It was quite an insignificant looking sheet, but no sooner did the American eagle catch sight of it, than he swooned and fell off his perch.- Jane Swisshelm • It’s a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles. – Karen Armstrong • It’s hard to soar with the eagles when you’re surrounded by turkeys. – Adam Sandler • I’ve always thought the American eagle needed a left wing and a right wing. The right wing would see to it that economic interests had their legitimate concerns addressed. The left wing would see to it that ordinary people were included in the bargain. Both would keep the great bird on course. But with two right wings or two left wings, it’s no longer an eagle and it’s going to crash. – Bill Moyers • I’ve got my old favorites like The Eagles and Bon Jovi.- Niall Horan • Just as eagles soar through the vast expanse of the sky without meeting any obstructions, needing only minimal effort to maintain their flight, so advanced meditators concentrating on emptiness can meditate on emptiness for a long time with little effort. Their minds soar through space-like emptiness, undistracted by any other phenomenon. When we meditate on emptiness we should try to emulate these meditators. – Geshe Kelsang Gyatso • Larry Flynt, running for governor of California. His goal – change our state bird to the spread eagle.- Craig Kilborn • Lately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame. – Waylon Jennings • Leaders are like eagles… they don’t flock. You’ll find them one at a time. – Knute Rockne • Leaders take eagles and teach them to fly in formation. – D. Wayne Calloway • Let them make their war. Whence come night and day? Whence will the eagle become gray? Whence is it that night is dark? Whence is it that the linnet is green? The ebullition of the sea, – How is it not seen? – Taliesin • Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one. – Elbert Hubbard • Like the eagle, we (artists) must be able to see clearly. – Jack White • Like two eagles soar as one upon the river of the wind with the promise of forever, we will take the past and learn how to begin. – Pocahontas • My feet will tread soft as a deer in the forest. My mind will be clear as water from the sacred well. My heart will be strong as a great oak. My spirit will spread an eagle’s wings, and fly forth. – Juliet Marillier • My first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got. – Kerry King • My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I hold, But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind. – William Shakespeare • My grandfather would have loved to have met you,” he told her huskily. “He would have called you ‘She Moves Trees Out of His Path.’ ” She looked lost, but his da laughed. He’d known the old man, too. “He called me ‘He Who Must Run into Trees,'” Charles explained, and in a spirit of honesty, a need for his mate to know who he was, he continued, “or sometimes ‘Running Eagle.’ ” ” ‘Running Eagle’?” Anna puzzled it over, frowning at him. “What’s wrong with that?” “Too stupid to fly,” murmured his father with a little smile.- Patricia Briggs • My jaw dropped open. Holy crows…There’s a couple of eagles mixed in there, Luke commented.And a few hawks, Aiden added.I rolled my eyes. Okay. Holy birds of prey! Is that better?Much, Aiden murmured. – J. Lynn • My name ain’t Steve Miller, but I fly like an Eagle. – Coolio • My spirit is too weak–mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin’d pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky. – John Keats • News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.- Gene Fowler • Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro’ the clouds he drives the trembling doves. – Alexander Pope • Om rubed his head. This wasn’t god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it wasn’t a game down there. People died. Bits got chopped off. We’re like eagles up here, he thought. Sometimes we show tortoise how to fly. Then we let go. – Terry Pratchett • Once when I looked up, I happened to see a sea eagle poised on magesterial wings above the knurled summit of the mountain behind my tent. It was a scene of peerless tranquility, tossed out in Nautre’s devil-may-care way, which says: Just open your eyes, my friend, and I’ll astonish you every minute of your life. – Lawrence Millman • One cannot bring up boys to be eagles and then expect them to be sparrows. – Edith Roosevelt • One hundred sparrow does not make one eagle. – Mehmet Murat Ildan • Percy and Reyna occupied matching praeters’ chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bedsheet and a purple cape. “The camp is safe,” Octavian continued. ” I’ll be the first to congragulate our heroes for bringing back the legion’s eagle and so much Imperial gold! Truly we have been blessed with good fortune. But why do more? Why tempt fate?” “I’m glad you asked.” Percy stood, taking the question as an opening. Octavian stammered, ” I wasn’t–” “–Part of the quest,” Percy said. “Yes I know. And your’e wise to let me explain, since I was. – Rick Riordan • Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they. – William Cowper • September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.–from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001 – Aberjhani • Shall eagles not be eagles? wrens be wrens? If all the world were falcons, what of that? The wonder of the eagle were the less, But he not less the eagle. – Alfred Lord Tennyson • She gazed toward the marsh that grew thicker, deeper, greener with approaching summer. Mosquitoes whined in there, breeding in the dark water. Alligators slid through it, silent death. It was a place where snakes could slither and bogs could suck the shoe right off your foot. And it was a place, she thought, that went bright and beautiful with the twinkling of fireflies, where wildflowers thrived in the shade and the stingy light. Where an eagle could soar like a king. There was no beauty without risk. No life without it. – Nora Roberts • So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others’ hands, Are we now smitten.- Aeschylus • So it ends as I guessed it would,’ his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within him ere it fled, almost gay it seemed to be casting off all doubt and care and fear. And even as it winged away into forgetfulness it heard voices, and they seemed to be crying in some forgotten world far above: ‘The eagles are coming! The eagles are coming!’ For one moment more Pippin’s thought hovered. “Bilbo! But no! That came in his tale, long long ago. This is my tale, and it ended now. Good-bye!’ And his thought fled far away and his eyes saw no more. – J. R. R. Tolkien • So long as one’s just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired. – Ivan Turgenev • So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya’s name because it was the first that came to mind, because in that moment she didn’t want to get expelled and she couldn’t think past that moment. She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she’d been scared of being paralyzed by fear again. ~Miles/Pudge on Alaska, pg 120-121 – John Green • So the struck eagle, stretch’d upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View’d his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing’d the shaft that quiver’d in his heart. – Lord Byron • Some relate . . . that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if they cannot look steadily on, she rejects them as spurious. We may truly try our faith by immediate intuitions of the Sun of Righteousness. Direct faith to act itself, immediately and directly on the incarnation of Christ and His mediation; and if it be not the right kind and race, it will turn its eyes aside to anything else. – John Owen • Somebody asked my friend Bob Seger, Why do you think the Eagles broke up? He said, Hotel California. – Glenn Frey • Somebody has to go polish the stars, They’re looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, For the eagles and starlings and gulls Have all been complaining they’re tarnished and worn, They say they want new ones we cannot afford. So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars. – Shel Silverstein • Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren – Anne Sexton • Spring One. Spring One. I am Eagle. I am Eagle. I can hear you very well. I feel excellent. My feeling is excellent.- Gherman Titov • Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies. – Billy Squier • That eagle’s fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.- Edmund Waller • That just shows you their type of class and integrity. They claim to be first class and the best organization. It’s an embarrassment and it shows the lack of class that they really have…..The Eagles would be undefeated right now with Green Bay’s quarterback. We’d probably be in a much better position with him on the team (instead of present Eagles quarterback Donavon McNabb). – Terrell Owens • That kind of tenderness couldn’t be permitted to last. You only got a taste, enough to know what perfection meant, and then you paid for it the rest of your life. Like the guy chained to a rock, who stole fire. The gods made an eagle eat his liver for all eternity. You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal. – Janet Fitch • The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it’s own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.- June Callwood • The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird. – Seth Grahame-Smith • The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove. – Horace • The correct answer is the University Titans, the West Valley Eagles, the Central Valley Bears, the East Valley Knights, the Riverside Rams. The fact you don’t even know an answer to the question like [naming all the Spokane Valley High School Mascots] means you don’t even know the district. How can you represent the district if you don’t even know it? – Matt Shea • The ‘Crue’ is not the hardest band to cover. There are no harmonies like the Eagles.- Brian Miller • The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • The Democrats talked about putting people first. Well, they put people first unless you happen to be a spotted owl or a giant garter snake or some other endangered species and then that seems to have priority. Obviously, you take the bald eagle and things of that sort, of course you’re going to make sure that they are saved and that they can live and you’re going to take every precaution that you can. But others – we just need a little flexibility. – Dan Quayle • The Eagle does not escape the storm. The Eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on the winds that bring the storm. – Jack White • The eagle had two natural enemies: storms and serpents. He embraced the storm, waiting on the rock for the right thermal current and then using that to carry him higher. While other birds were taking cover, the eagle was soaring. An eagle would never fight against the storms of life. – Karen Kingsbury • The Eagle has landed. – Neil Armstrong • The eagle has no fear of adversity. We need to be like the eagle and have a fearless spirit of a conqueror! – Joyce Meyer • The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • The eagle may soar; beavers build dams. – Bill Vaughan • The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow – William Blake • The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome. – William – Shakespeare • The eagle suffers little birds to sing.- William Shakespeare • The eagle that soars in the upper air does not worry itself how it is to cross rivers. – Gladys Aylward • The Eagle, he was lord above – William Wordsworth • The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends. – Don Henley • The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time. – Don Henley • The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson’s henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She found herself wondering if the Lord was going to send her an eagle to fly her those four miles, or send Elijah in his fiery chariot to give her a lift. Blasphemy,” she told herself complacently. “The Lord provides strength, not taxicabs. – Stephen King • The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle’s wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel. – Sidney Sheldon • The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle’s own Lures. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. – Aesop • The Justice Department ruled that Native American tribes are allowed to grow and sell marijuana on reservations. This decision was hailed as a victory by Native American leader Giggling Eagle. – Conan O’Brien • The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill. – Glenn Frey • The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out. – Benito Mussolini • The little and the great are joined in one By God’s great force. The wondrous golden sun Is linked unto the glow-worm’s tiny spark; The eagle soars to heaven in his flight; And in those realms of space, all bathed in light, Soar none except the eagle and the lark. – Emma Lazarus • The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. An just so does our God to us. – Hannah Whitall Smith • The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle. – Abraham Lincoln • The sharp knife of dawn glitters in my hand but how bare is everything-tall tall tree infinite air, the unrelaxing tension of the world and only hope, hope only, the kind eagle soars and wheels in flight. – Martin Carter • The sun is a huntress young, The sun is a red, red joy, The sun is an Indian girl, Of the tribe of the Illinois. The sun is a smouldering fire, That creeps through the high gray plain, And leaves not a bush of cloud.To blossom with flowers of rain. The sun is a wounded deer, That treads pale grass in the skies, Shaking his golden horns, Flashing his baleful eyes. The sun is an eagle old, There in the windless west. Atop of the spirit-cliffs He builds him a crimson nest. – Vachel Lindsay • The time will soon be here when my grandchild will long for the cry of a loon, the flash of a salmon, the whisper of spruce needles, or the screech of an eagle. But he will not make friends with any of these creatures and when his heart aches with longing, he will curse me. Have I done all to keep the air fresh? Have I cared enough about the water? Have I left the eagle to soar in freedom? Have I done everything I could to earn my grandchild’s fondness?- Chief Dan George • The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch. – William Shakespeare • There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar. – Herman Melville • There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. – Carl Sandburg • There is an eagle in me that wants to soar. – Carl Sandburg • There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed. – Shawn Colvin • They say, ‘The coward dies many times’; so does the beloved. Didn’t the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined? – C. S. Lewis • Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle. – Martin Farquhar Tupper • Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. – Tobias Smollett • To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, ‘Look at my two noble friends — they are dumb, but they are loyal.’ I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant. – Beryl Markham • To object that the facts about human nature set limits on our ability to change the world and ourselves makes about as much sense as the lament that our lack of wings sets limits on our ability to ‘fly’ as far as eagles under our own power. – Noam Chomsky • We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb. – Shane Claiborne • We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumes flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle: these are our brothers. All things are connected like the blood which unites one’s family. – Chief Seattle • We gotta be free – The eagle and me. see Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Emancipation of Women – Yip Harburg • We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only by the beams, light and heat. Election is a sun, the eyes of eagles cannot see it, yet we may find it in the heat of vocation, in the light of illumination, in the beams of good works. – Thomas Adams • We may talk what we please, he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, “of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.” – Abraham Cowley • We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests. – Franklin D. Roosevelt • We need a good strong opposition and I don’t know whether it’s any coincidence that we need Angela Eagle in Labour and we need Theresa May to lead the Conservative party, both of whom of course are women. – Anna Soubry • We’re definitely a hodgepodge of influences. Mine, most heavily, would be Southern rock – the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd and stuff like that. Hillary is more from the country side – her mom is Linda Davis, a country singer. Dave, he’s a big fan of the Eagles and like that.- Charles Kelley • What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears. – Brennan Manning • When day begins to break I count my blessings, good and bad, Being wakeful for your sake, Remembering the covenant we’ve always had, What eagle look your face still shows, While up from my heart’s root So great a sweetness flows I shake from head to foot. – P. C. Cast • When the Eagle landed on the moon, I was speechless—overwhelmed, like most of the world. Couldn’t say a word. I think all I said was, ‘Wow! Jeez!’ Not exactly immortal. Well, I was nothing if not human. – Walter Cronkite • When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. – Winston Churchill • Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him – Kenneth Wapnick • Why fly like a hen when you can soar like an eagle? – Pio of Pietrelcina • Wine transforms moles into eagles. – Charles Baudelaire • Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean. – Glenn Frey • Yeah, I had it all mapped out actually. Seriously. I wrote it down. I said, ‘When I’m the head coach of the Eagles, I’m going to make sure I get that guy on my team.’ And then guy next to me was like, ‘You’re only the offensive coordinator at New Hampshire.’ I said, ‘Don’t worry about it. Minor details. But it’s going to work.’ – Chip Kelly • Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad. – Jean Rhys • You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don’t hold onto the old man, the world; don’t refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: ‘The world is passing away; the world is losing its grip; the world is short of breath. Don’t fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.’ – Saint Augustine • You are the mountain, you are the rock You are the cord and you’re the spark You are the eagle, you are the lark You are the world and you’re remarkable You’re the ocean eating the shore You are the calm inside the storm You’re every emotion, you can endure You are the world and the world is yours. ((The World as I See It)) – Jason Mraz • You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle. – William J. Clinton • You can’t cage an eagle for long without destroying it. – Patricia Briggs • You can’t criticize Bob Dylan’s singing. You have to respect Billy Joel as a brilliant poet. You can’t tell me there’s a better rock band ever than Led Zeppelin. And if you speak during the Eagles’ “Last Resort,” we’re done. I’m just asking for seven minutes. This stuff really matters, you know. – Charlie Sheen • You can’t hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles – Hubert H. Humphrey • You can’t soar like an eagle and crap like a canary. – Ed Sabol • You know, I’m an eagle, flying around in the mountains. – Link Wray • You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world. – Tom Petty • 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! – J. R. R. Tolkien • Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles. – Brian Tracy

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Schneps Communications

The three leading local media companies serving the five boroughs of New York City along with Long Island and Westchester have now become one.

Schneps Communications, a family-run business owned by Victoria and Joshua Schneps, has acquired Community News Group and NYC Community Media, one of the largest publishers of community newspapers, niche publications, websites and events in New York State.

Together, Schneps, CNG, and NYCCM offer unmatched reach in the five boroughs of New York City, as well as Long Island and Westchester. The newly combined company will be known as Schneps Community News Group and will have a total printed weekly circulation of more than 300,000 copies, a digital reach of more than 2.5 million page views per month, and host more than 40 events every year.

“We will clearly have the largest reach of any local media company in New York City across print, digital, and events,” said Joshua Schneps, SCNG chief executive Officer. “We can now offer companies large and small, seeking to reach an individual neighborhood or the entire City of New York and its surrounding region, the most cost-effective and efficient means of marketing.”

Each borough and Long Island have a group of distinctive media assets, some dating back as far as 1908.

“Our brands are as grass roots as it gets and produce award-winning content that both our readers and advertisers trust,” said Victoria Schneps, Publisher and President of SCNG.

With the uncertainty of the media landscape both locally and nationally, Schneps has prospered by investing in content not only in its newspapers and niche publications, but through successful digital assets and events that have created a diversified media company.

“This acquisition will allow us to reach a scale that will create unique opportunities for clients that want to target their marketing and work with proven brands,” said Victoria.

“In addition, our knowledge and success around digital and events will be a boon to many of CNG’s exceptional outlets,” Joshua added.

CNG and NYCCM was owned and operated by husband-and-wife team of Les and Jennifer Goodstein. Les was a News Corp executive who led the initial formation of CNG through a series of acquisitions, while Jennifer acquired NYCCM, with its group of titles in Manhattan, from their previous owner. In 2014 Les and Jennifer acquired CNG from News Corp, bringing the group back to its roots as a family-owned business.

Les and Jennifer Goodstein were advised on the sale by Gary Greene of Cribb, Greene, and Associates.

Schneps Communications has grown since the founding of The Queens Courier, by Victoria Schneps in her home in 1985, to become the preeminent publisher of community newspapers, leading digital websites and assets, business-to -business events, and live events.

Its media assets include:

The Queens Courier

The Courier Sun

The Ridgewood Times

The Times Newsweekly

El Correo

Noticia LI

The Long Island Press

Brownstoner.com

Brownstoner Magazine

QNS.com

The North Shore Towers Courier

LIC Magazine

BORO Magazine

LeHavre Courier

Cryder Point Courier

Queens in Your Pocket

Aspire College Magazine

Best of Long Island

Best of Brooklyn

Best of the Boro

The World’s Fare

The Kings, Power Women and Stars business events Hosted throughout NYC and Long Island

The Power List events

Real Estate Award and Conference Events

Senior Health Expos

Kids Expos

About CNG and NYCCM

New York’s largest collection of family-owned newspapers, websites, and magazines and the city’s most powerful name in community journalism.

Its media assets include:

Brooklyn Paper

Park Slope Courier

Bay News

Mill Basin Marine Park Courier

Brooklyn Graphic

Gay City News

Caribbean Life

TimesLedger

BaysideTimes

FlushingTimes

Bronx Times

Bronx Times Reporter

The Villager

The Villager Express

Downtown Express

Chelsea Now

Manhattan Express

BORO Weekly

Brooklyn Family

Queens Family

Bronx Family

Manhattan Family

Westchester Family

Special Child

Bar & Bat Mitzvah Guide

Brooklyn Tomorrow

Queens Tomorrow

Brooklyn Uncovered

Gay City Guide

Sweet 16 Guide

Wedding Guide

Airport Voice

Wedding Pride

Eat Up

NYParenting.com

WestchesterFamily.com

BrooklynPaper.com

BrooklynDaily.com

TimesLedger.com

Bxtimes.com

GayCityNews.nyc

CaribbeanLifeNews.com

TheVillager.com

ManhattanExpressNews.nyc

DowntownExpress.com

ChelseaNow.com

AirportVoice.com

Ambassador Awards

Impact Awards

Healthcare Awards

Elder Care Expos

CNG Radio Podcast

Reach James Harney at (718) 260-2529 or e-mail him at jharney@cnglocal.com.

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