Bird Quote by John Adams

Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese.

— Matthew Arnold

The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang…

— Orlando Gibbons

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese…

— Van Wyck Brooks

“Every man thinks his own geese swans.”

— Charles Dickens

Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so much gain—all…

— Anonymous

I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.

— Anna Chancellor

The Water Babies "Young and Old" When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan,…

— Charles Kingsley

In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's own eagle…

— John Adams

And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.

— Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas

Notes for a ballet, The Spell: ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across the moon…

— Woody Allen

“...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next administration will be a troublesome one, to whomsoever…

— John Adams

In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until…

— Sandra Steingraber