Quotes about Swans

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing. Votes: 8

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 something more sinister. Votes: 8

When turkeys mate they think of swans. Votes: 6

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans. Votes: 6

I will make thee think thy swan a crow. Votes: 4

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan. Votes: 4

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep. Votes: 4

Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak. Votes: 4

The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood. Votes: 4

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon. Votes: 4

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat. Votes: 4

The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. Votes: 4

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. Votes: 4

The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure. Votes: 4

The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear. Votes: 4

The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse. Votes: 4

No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion. Votes: 4

Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home. Votes: 4

My last night as Isabella Swan. Tomorrow night, I would be Bella Cullen. Though the whole marriage ordeal was a thorn in my side, I had to admit that I liked the sound of that. - bella swan Votes: 4

Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood. Votes: 4

I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school. Votes: 4

You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve. Votes: 4

And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce through me as onward they go. They sail along, and a ringing Sweet melody rises on high; And when the swans begin singing, They presently must die. Votes: 4

The wild swan hurries hight and noises loud With white neck peering to the evening clowd. The weary rooks to distant woods are gone. With lengths of tail the magpie winnows on To neighbouring tree, and leaves the distant crow While small birds nestle in the edge below. Votes: 4

The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang her first and last, and sang no more: 'Farewell, all joys! O Death, come close mine eyes! More Geese than Swans now live, more Fools than Wise.' Votes: 4

Swans in the winter air A white perfection have Votes: 3

Black Swans and tail events run the socioeconomic world Votes: 3

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments. Votes: 3

Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears, Roses do blush and hang their heads Votes: 3

Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish. Votes: 3

Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases. Votes: 3

The Singing of Swans is a remarkable narrative calling--even compelling--us to connect with our own ancestral roots, to seek our own inner wisdom, and to reclaim our own inner voices! Votes: 3

People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans' - are inevitable. Some are likely to be desperately unpleasant too Votes: 3

I wanted to challenge myself and move into something new. I felt that using the name Swans and the sonic attitude that that engenders was what I needed to move forward musically, and it's led to lots of new things. Votes: 3

I can't even listen to Swans anymore. It doesn't do it for me at all, but I absolutely adore the early records and, on that same token, I wouldn't in any way wish for them to come back and repeat themselves. Votes: 3

When I first started doing the quieter, more acoustic material in Swans, there was a lot of derision and outright hatred from the audience and press, just as in the early days of Swans when we were rejected outright because of the bludgeoning, single-minded violence of the music. Votes: 3

I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic. Votes: 2

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks. Votes: 2

Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives. Votes: 2

Constance Spry was one of the first people to put flowers in urns and ceramic swans and other unusual containers, but her arrangements tended to be a little less full. Votes: 2

Sometimes I'll go by and there are a couple of swans, the next day it's a few ducks. I'd like to stop there every day for a year and capture how it changes, then put it all together to create an incredible image of a traditional English scene. Votes: 2

I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, and it was the same way in high school... I was just kind of that awkward theater kid with a bunch of athletes... it was very 'Glee.' Votes: 2

Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them. Votes: 2

If swans weren't real, myths'd make them up. Votes: 0

And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by. Votes: 0

Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful. Votes: 0

Every lake belongs to the quietness desired by the swans. Votes: 0

Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place. Votes: 0

Let the long contention cease! / Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Votes: 0

swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail. Votes: 0

If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon. Votes: 0

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks. Votes: 0

Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans... because I can still feel that affinity. Votes: 0

no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white. Votes: 0

For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 virginity. Votes: 0

The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare. Votes: 0

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 it. Votes: 0

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make. Votes: 0

One musn't overrate the culture of what used to be called "top people" before the wars. They had charming manners, but they were as ignorant as swans. Votes: 0

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 his throat. Votes: 0

Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly. Votes: 0

The night folds her trembling hands over a weary world. Out of a pale blue rises the shining moon. My thoughts are flying to the stars like lonely swans. Votes: 0

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 resting place after another. Votes: 0

Tiresome heart, forever living and dying, House without air, I leave you and lock your door. Wild swans, come over the town, come over The town again, trailing your legs and crying! Votes: 0

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 is plastic and full of government cheese swans. Votes: 0

Everything I do, I want to take it to the farthest possible degree. I can't just do something the plain way. I don't cook a bowl of pasta; it has to be puff pastry swans. Votes: 0

The river is such a tranquil place, a place to sit and think of romance and the beauty of nature, to enjoy the elegance of swans and the chance of a glimpse of a kingfisher. Votes: 0