Quote by George Eliot

And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character…

— Russell Brand

“It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!”

— Hans Christian Andersen

“In the story of the Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he realized he was a Swan. Each of…

— Benjamin Hoff

“The park was a scruffy patch of grass, muddy in winter and dusty in summer, set about with a few dozen trees, a bandstand,…

— Philip Pullman

A duck in a pond is calm and carefree... but what you don't see under the water is the struggling & stressed feet.. what…

— Nishan Panwar

“The pond garden is an intricate phenomenon coalescing the intent and will of various people of influence living at various times.”

— Norris Brock Johnson

“Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fenced, and…

— John Steinbeck

“Cecy, help me to collect the ducklings, and put them back into the box! If we were to place your muff on top of…

— Georgette Heyer

“She had turned away and was watching a duck out on the lake. It was tucking into weeds, a thing I've never been able…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“So many birds sitting around, on a dead wire, a bare branch, a cold ground, a drifting seashore; never realizing the glory in their…

— Anthony Liccione

“[...] I have always kept ducks - and the colour of their plumage, in particular the dark green and snow white, seemed to me…

— Laura Broadbent

“The duck swallows the worm”

— Ken Follett