Falconers Quotes & Sayings

Bacon always woke at the first light of day and worked for several hours, usually finishing around noon. — Mason Currey

Youth is an unrecoverable asset. Unless you are a hydra, lucky you. — Anca Iovita

Being a Falconer is about saving the buggers even if they don't deserve it." - Farlan MacNeil — Edwin McRae

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom. — Franz Boas

If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself. — Patrick Swayze

Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers. — Alexandre Dumas

My point is that the admirable men of those times, the Cochranes, Byrons, Falconers, Seymours, Boscawens and the many less famous sailors from whom I have in some degree compounded my characters, are best celebrated in their own splendid actions rather than in imaginary contests; that authenticity is a jewel; and that the echo of their words has an abiding value. — Patrick O'Brian

The world is getting weirder. Darker every single day. Things are spinning around faster and faster, and threatening to go completely awry. Falcons and falconers. The center cannot hold. — Jim Butcher

There's a superstition among falconers that a hawk's ability is inversely proportional to the ferocity of its name. Call a hawk Tiddles and it will be a formidable hunter; call it Spitfire or Slayer and it will probably refuse to fly at all. — Helen Macdonald

Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship. — John Calvin

My wife is loyal...to my wallet. — Matshona Dhliwayo

All reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was by using it in a slingshot. — Terry Pratchett

When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed. — Joyce Carol Oates

We live in a culture that is much happier talking about organic brain disease than about psychic illness because the former suggests that something that is physically wrong in a brain is wholly unrelated to that person's upbringing or experiences in the world, but that is not necessarily true. — Siri Hustvedt

I think I'm a little more daunted by when the machinery of the play is really huge. — Adam Rapp

Acting is making it seem like it's happening now. — Anne Jackson

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. — Miguel De Cervantes