Flying Eagle Cents

Famous quotes containing the words flying, eagle and/or cents:

    “Years in wingspans go
    Across and over our heads. Watch them:
    They are flying east. They are flying to the ebb
    Of dark.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 30:18-19.

    From the oracle of Agur, son of Jakeh.

    “A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be a good subject for Christianity. The New Testament may be a choice book to him on some, but not on all or most of his days. He will rather go a-fishing in his leisure hours. The Apostles, though they were fishers too, were of the solemn race of sea-fishers, and never trolled for pickerel on inland streams.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)