Swan Quotes

129 quotes by 78 authors

Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will… — Saint Basil
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. — Hans Christian Andersen
Get my swan costume ready. — Anna Pavlova
It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve… — Bernard DeVoto
Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the… — Robinson Jeffers
We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing — George Carlin
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 world… — Thom Yorke
I'm going to do 'The Social Network Two: The Electric Boogaloo.' And I have a part in 'Beige Swan.' I'm going to be the lead,… — Amy Poehler
Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in… — Fred Reed
They were doing the Dying Swan at the ballet. And there was a rumor that some bookmarkers had drifted into town from upstate New York… — Woody Allen
Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan. — Epictetus
The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood. — Heinrich Heine
A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan. — Juvenal
I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake. — Graeme Murphy
Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan. — Robinson Jeffers
I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and… — William Kempe
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Just because swans mate for life, I don't think its that big a deal. First of all, if you're a swan, you're probably not going… — Jack Handey
The Water Babies "Young and Old" When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad,… — Charles Kingsley
When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens. — Tom Robbins

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