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.
No wolf falters before the bite So strike No hawk wavers before the dive Just strike
The Christian church [in its true identity] does not persecute; any more than a lily scratches the thorns, or a lamb pursues and tears the wolves, or a turtledove hunts the hawks and eagles, or a chaste and modest virgin fights and scratches like whores and harlots.
But at [soccer] tournaments you tend to see novel, unanticipated trends coming through, with everyone watching each other like hawks and immediately copying anything new. What is really important for every team is to be aware of its own capabilities and find a style which plays to one's own strengths.
We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.
I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.
When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.
There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces The guttural sorrow of the refugees.
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.
I've got everything I need: a nice piece of land with hawks and owls and incredible sunsets, and the good will of my neighbors.
A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare.
Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies
But when Warren has spoken on national security, she has invariably spouted warmed-over, banal Democratic hawk tripe of the kind that she just recited about Israel and Gaza. During her Senate campaign, for instance, she issued wildly militaristic – and in some cases clearly false – statements about Iran and its nuclear program that would have been comfortable on the pages of The Weekly Standard.
The Atlanta Hawks are a bunch of guys who would prefer to pass kidney stones than pass a basketball.
There are all kinds of smiles. On the football field I mostly used the one where the hawk spots the dove.
I thought it was supposed to be impossible to sneak up on you. Eyes of a hawk and ears of a wolf and all.
The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.
And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.
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.
I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls.