Affinity Quote by Jean Sibelius

I was certainly no swan - with my horrendously protruding goofy teeth, bow legs and under-developed, clumsy, boyish, adolescent body. I was never cool,…

— Ulrika Jonsson

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.

— Michael Gira

“...the young swans as big as their parents now, but still grey and it looks peculiar, like two different species swimming in a line,…

— Per Petterson

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.

— Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

When turkeys mate they think of swans.

— Johnny Carson

“The swans of our childhood were probably just pigeons.’” He”

— Charlie Carillo

“This humble person has been alive long enough to see two generations of children grow up, and knows how rare it is for ordinary…

— Arthur Golden

“The Talent Code, Daniel Coyle writes that “From a scientific perspective, it was as if the researchers had traced the lineage of the world’s…

— Adam M. Grant

I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.

— Margaret Mead

Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.

— Martin Parr

Gaze not on swans, in whose soft breast, A full-hatched beauty seems to nest Nor snow, which falling from the sky Hovers in its…

— Henry Noel Brailsford