Eagle Bone Whistles

Famous quotes containing the words eagle, bone and/or whistles:

    “The Eagle has landed.”
    —Neil Armstrong (b. 1930)

    “The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.”
    —Humphry, Sir Davy (1778–1829)

    “In trying to understand the appeal of best-sellers, it is well to remember that whistles can be made sounding certain notes which are clearly audible to dogs and other of the lower animals, though man is incapable of hearing them.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)