Hawks Quotes

Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk.

To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door, trailing all the windy, feral outdoors into your living room.

And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.

In Washington they have their hawks and doves and in Ottawa we have our parrots.

Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

The trombone is not meant for romance... any instrument that hawks up it's own loogie every ten minutes is not meant for wooin' the ladies.

There's action only if there is danger.

My wife watches me like a hawk.

A pine needle fell in the forest. The hawk saw it. The deer heard it. The white bear smelled it

We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.

We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.

But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'.

The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.

Cicala to cicala is dear, and ant to ant, and hawks to hawks, but to me the muse and song.

When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.

Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk.

Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?

As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.

Resentments, carried too far, expose us to a fate analogous to that of the fish-hawk, when he strikes his talons too deep into a fish beyond his capacity to lift, and is carried under and drowned by it.

Did you know I staged the first performance in America of At the Hawk's Well?

Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.

I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.

Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.

They say the first of my kind was Alasdair, a human raised by hawks. She learned the languages of birds and was gifted with their form.

One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room.

I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck

I thought it was supposed to be impossible to sneak up on you. Eyes of a hawk and ears of a wolf and all.

I have a Dominique Wilkins Hawks jersey that I still wear. That's probably my favorite one. What's funny is that I spend all this time collecting jerseys, and now people are out there collecting mine.

No wolf falters before the bite So strike No hawk wavers before the dive Just strike

Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace.

But who does hawk at eagles with a dove?

Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.

You missed the shadow of the hawk on the vole if you think how wonderfully free a vole is!

There're two different kinds of skating. There's the style skating, and there's the trick skating. He (Tony Hawk) does the trick skating so heavy duty, that he can overcome the style skating. There's always the chance that the style skater can come back, but the whole deal really is learning tricks.

I can't quite see the point of poems like "Wittgenstein Goes for a Walk with A Hawk in Sherwood Forest." I know they're trying to be clever, but they're not.

Some things are worth the fat and calories, although I have to watch it like a hawk.

I bleed and breathe Hawks. Even when I played for other teams I felt funny, because I was a Hawk.

I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy.

Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.

Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch."

There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces The guttural sorrow of the refugees.

In that you're wrong. I choose, I adhere, I pursue, I commit, I attain. That - that, my errant friend - is an absolute." - Hawk

There are all kinds of smiles. On the football field I mostly used the one where the hawk spots the dove.

Republican hawks like John McCain and Lindsey Graham who are very skeptical of [Rex Tillerson]. At the same time the Democrats will portray him as a climate criminal because he heads a big oil company. So, he'll be in for really tough confirmation hearings.

When you elect chicken hawks, chicken hawks take you to war.

We got the Hawks I aint talking about the Peach state

If the F.A.A. was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to make their first flight at Kitty Hawk.

The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.