Swans Quotes

119 quotes by 92 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
When turkeys mate they think of swans. — Johnny Carson
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
Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in… — Dr. Seuss
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 don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks. — Maeve Binchy
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
Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and fly an invisible… — Gautama Buddha
The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one… — Gautama Buddha
People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans'… — Martin Wolf
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
In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was… — Jung Chang
No number of sightings of white swans can prove the theory that all swans are white. The sighting of just one black one may disprove… — Karl Popper
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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