I join a heart of snow to the whiteness of swans; I hate…

May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years. May you wake up... and start dancing while…

— Rob Brezsny

If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon.

— Connie Willis

What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's…

— Epictetus

Notes for a ballet, The Spell: ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across the moon…

— Woody Allen

Swans only have one partner for their whole life, and if their partner dies they can pass away from broken heart

— Ritu Ghatourey

And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the…

— Thom Yorke

Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.

— Matthew Arnold

Wearing a corset, a ball gown, heels and a swan hat with wings to fight in the forest gave me a whole new appreciation…

— Lily Collins

So," she went on, "it got me thinking about what cost beauty. Or for that matter, what cost anything? Would you trade love for…

— Sarah Dessen

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

— David Mitchell

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

— Epictetus

White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying. And my…

— Maxim Gorky

“I am as restless a traveller in my own land as a wintering whooper swan.”

— Jim Crumley