Swan Quotes
129 quotes by 78 authors
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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
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Get my swan costume ready.
— Anna Pavlova
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.
— Epictetus
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The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.
— Heinrich Heine
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A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.
— Juvenal
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I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.
— Graeme Murphy
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Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.
— Robinson Jeffers
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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
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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
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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
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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
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When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.
— Tom Robbins
Who Wrote These Swan Quotes
78 authors contributed a total of 129 Swan Quotes, led by these top contributors: