Eagle Feather

Eagle Feather may refer to:

  • The feather of an eagle.
  • Eagle feather law in the United States.
  • Eagle Feather is a short story by Habib Ahmadzadeh about the civilian resistance against the Iraqi siege of the southern Iranian city of Abadan during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88).

Famous quotes containing the words eagle and/or feather:

    “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 Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)

    “Who blows death’s feather? What glory is colour?
    I blow the stammel feather in the vein.
    The loin is glory in a working pallor.
    My clay unsuckled and my salt unborn,
    The secret child, I shift about the sea
    Dry in the half-tracked thigh.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)