Jean Craighead George Quotes

Eagles rarely fail to catch their prey. They usually kill it quickly by breaking its neck with their powerful claws.

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

If I were an animal, I would be an eagle.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

The Golden Eagle, which has universally been considered as a bird of most extraordinary powers of flight, is in my estimation little more than a sluggard, though its wings are long and ample.

I am a Hawk!

My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure.

Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world's most elegant phenomena.

First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot.

Quickness is the essence of the war.

I think my strengths are definitely - I'm a really good glider. I'm one of the fastest, like on a straight drag race, I can pretty much kill that.

It's not necessarily size that matters, it's how fast you move that implement.

I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.

You know, I'm an eagle, flying around in the mountains.

I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere.

Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference.

I can't say enough about the guts and the talents of Amazon. They're so agile, they're so nimble; they picked us up two weeks after we premiered, and their whole attitude is, 'Go, go, go, go,' so I'm very, very impressed.

Power and speed be hands and feet.

August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!

First of all you need to have speed. If you only have experience and don't have the speed, then you are never going to get the speed. This is the main point. So you are better off getting someone quick and you develop him with experience.

If I am running 100 yards, I should be cut. Because then I am getting beat. I do not need to be doing that. I need to be running 20, 30, 40 yards as fast as I can over and over and over at optimal energy and efficiency and speed.

In business, speed is everything.

The more team speed you have, the better.