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Sparrow Quotes and Quotations /2

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Bird quotes about and referencing sparrows

 

Sparrow Quotes

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The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?
~ Benjamin Franklin

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The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
~ Eric Berne

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The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of a sparrow.
~ Proverb

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The sparrow is sorry for the peacock at the burden of his tail.
~ Tagore

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The sparrow that is twittering on the edge of my balcony is calling up to me this moment a world of memories that reach over half my lifetime, and a world of hope that stretches farther than any flight of sparrows.
~ Donald G. Mitchell

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The sparrow-hawk loves the rainwater, falling in torrents; the king loves to see his wealth on display.
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud / Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow
~ William Shakespeare

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Two sparrows were sold for a farthing (Matt. 10:29), and five for two farthings (Luke 12:6).

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When sparrows build and the leaves break forth My old sorrow wakes and cries.
~ Jean Ingelow

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Whenever I hear the sparrow chirping, watch the woodpecker chirp, catch a chirping trout, or listen to the sad howl of the chirp rat, I think: Oh boy! I’m going insane again.
~ Jack Handy

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Who said, `Peacock Pie’? / The old king to the sparrow: / Who said, `Crops are ripe’? / Rust to the harrow.
~ Walter de La Mare

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Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
~ Alexander Pope

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Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.
~ Bible

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You are the Ocean of Water, and I am Your fish. Your Name is the drop of water, and I am a thirsty sparrow-hawk.
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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Your Face is so Beautiful, and the Sound of Your Words imparts intuitive wisdom. It is so long since this sparrow-hawk has had even a glimpse of water.
~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Sparrow Poems

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And in thy own sermon, thou
That the sparrow falls dost allow,
It shall not cause me any alarm;
For neither so comes the bird to harm,
Seeing our Father, thou hast said,
Is by the sparrow’s dying bed;
Therefore it is a blessed place,
And the sparrow in high grace.
– George MacDonald

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Tell me not of joy: there’s none
Now my little sparrow’s gone;
He, just as you,
Would toy and woo,
He would chirp and flatter me,
He would hang the wing awhile,
Till at length he saw me smile,
Lord! how sullen he would be!
– William Cartwright, Lesbia and the Sparrow

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Cuckoo

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Cuckoo Quotes and Quotations A – R

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Bird quotes about and referencing cuckoos

 

Cuckoos

The cuckoos are a family, Cuculidae, of near passerine birds. The cuckoo family has other species included, some of which are the roadrunners, koels, malkohas, couas, coucals and anis.

The cuckoos are generally medium sized slender birds. The majority are arboreal, with a sizeable minority that are terrestrial. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, ranging across all the world’s continents except Antarctica, with the majority of species being tropical. The temperate species are migratory.

The cuckoos feed on insects, insect larvae and a variety of other animals, as well as fruit. Many species are brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nests of other species, but the majority of species raise their own young.

Cuckoos are often highly secretive and in many cases best known for their wide repertoire of calls. Calls are usually relatively simple, resembling whistles, flutes, or hiccups. The calls are used in order to demonstrate ownership of a territory and to attract a mate.

Cuckoo Definition

cuck·oo
[koo-koo, kook-oo] noun, plural -oos, verb, -ooed, -oo·ing, adjective

–noun
1.a common European bird, Cuculus canorus, of the family Cuculidae, noted for its characteristic call and its brood parasitism.
2.any of several other birds of the family Cuculidae.
3.the call of the cuckoo, or an imitation of it.
4.Slang . a crazy, silly, or foolish person; simpleton.

–verb (used without object)
5.to utter the call of the cuckoo or an imitation of it.

–verb (used with object)
6.to repeat monotonously.

–adjective
7.Slang . crazy; silly; foolish.
8.of, pertaining to, or like a cuckoo.

Slang Dictionary

coo-coo definition

and cuckoo

1. mod.
unconscious. : I socked him on the snoot and knocked him coo-coo.
2. mod.
insane. : How did I ever get involved in this cuckoo scheme, anyway?

 

Cuckoo Quotes

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A rainbow and a cuckoo’s song / May never come together again; / May never come / This side the tomb.
- William Henry Davies

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And hear the pleasant cuckoo, loud and long – / The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.
- William Henry Davies

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And now I hear its voice again, And still its message is of peace, It sings of love that will not cease, For me it never sings in vain.
- Frederick Locker-Lampson

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And, being fed by us, you used us so As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo’s bird, Useth the sparrow–did oppress our nest; . . .
- William Shakespeare

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At land indeed Thou dost o’ercount me of my father’s house: But since the cuckoo builds not for himself, Remain in’t as thou mayst.
- William Shakespeare

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Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
- William Shakespeare

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He was but as the cuckoo is in June, Heard, not regarded.
- William Shakespeare

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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshedöthey produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.
- Welles, Orson

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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
- Simone Weil

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List–’twas the cuckoo–O, with what delight Heard I that voice! and catch it now, though faint, Far off and faint, and melting into air, Yet not to be mistaken. Hark again! Those louder cries give notice that the bird, Although invisible as Echo’s self, Is wheeling hitherward.
- William Wordsworth

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No Nightingale did ever chant More welcome notes to weary bands Of travelers in some shady haunt, Among Arabian sands: A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird, Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebri
- William Wordsworth

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O blithe New-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice; O Cuckoo! shall I call thee Bird, Or but a wandering Voice?
- William Wordsworth

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O Cuckoo! shall I call thee bird,
Or but a wandering voice?”
- William Wordsworth

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Oh, could I fly, I’d fly with thee! We’d make, with joyful wing, Our annual visit o’er the globe, Companions of the spring.
- John Logan

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
- Kesey, Ken Elton Title of novel, derived from a traditional rhyme.

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Cuckoo 2

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Cuckoo Quotes and Quotations S – Z

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Bird quotes about and referencing cuckoos

 

Cuckoo Quotes

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So have I heard the cuckoo’s parting cry, From the wet field, through the vext garden trees, Come with the volleying rain and tossing breeze: ‘The bloom isgone, and with the bloom go I.’
- Arnold, Matthew

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Spring, the sweet spring, is the year’s pleasant king, Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing: Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
- Nashe,Thomas

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Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year.
- John Logan

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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
- Hemingway, Ernest

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The Attic warbler pours her throat Responsive to the cuckoo’s note.
- Thomas Gray

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The cuckoo builds not for himself.
- Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Sc. 6. L. 28.

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The cuckoo comes in April, and stays the month of May; sings a song at midsummer, and then goes away.
- Traditional Proverb

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The cuckoo then on every tree,
Mocks married men; for thus sings he,
Cuckoo!
Cuckoo! Cuckoo! O word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear.
- William Shakespeare

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The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.
- Wilson Mizner

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The merry cuckoo, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.
- Spenser, Edmund

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This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly: And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at ‘TheTravellers’ Rest’, And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And so do I.
- Hardy,Thomas

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“You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds’ nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places.”
“Enormous?” said Jace. “Did you just call me fat?”
“It was an analogy.”
“I am not fat.”
— Cassandra Clare [City of Ashes]

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When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men: for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear!
- William Shakespeare

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While I deduce, From the first note the hollow cuckoo sings, The symphony of spring.
- James Thomson (1)

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Chicken Quotes /4

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Chicken Quotes from Chicken Little

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Chicken Quotes /4

Continued from part 3

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If you are going to have a roast, a chicken is better than a phoenix.
- Chinese Proverb

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If you are married to a chicken obey the chicken. If you are married to a dog obey the dog.
- Chinese Proverb

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If you forgive the fox for stealing your chickens, he will take your sheep.
- Georgian Proverb

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In the village that you don’t know, the chickens have teeth.
- Ivorian Proverb

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It is easier to get a chicken back in the egg than to undo a slander.
- Chinese Proverb

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Kill a chicken before a monkey.
- Chinese Proverb

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Kill the chicken to frighten the monkey.
- Chinese Proverb

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Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.
- Helen Rowland

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My chicken is good, but my neighbor’s looks better.
- Romanian Proverb

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No chicken will fall into the fire a second time.
- African Proverb

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On a rainy day many offer to water the chickens.
- Armenian Proverb

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Tasty is the chicken that is fed by someone else.
- French Proverb

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The advice of foxes is dangerous for chickens.
- Spanish Proverb

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The chicken-thief does not listen to the chicken’s prayer.
- Zanzibar Proverb

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The chicken also knows when it’s morning, but still watches the mouth of the cock.
- Ghanaian Proverb

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The chicken sings what the cock teaches him.
- French Proverb

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The chicken that crows the loudest does not always give the biggest eggs.
- French Proverb

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The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.
- Martina Navratilova

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The egg teaches the chicken how to breed.
- Bantu Proverb

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The fox that waits until the chicken falls from the perch dies from hunger.
- Greek Proverb

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Swan Quotes and Quotations A – I

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Bird quotes about and referencing swans

 

Trumpeter Swan

Swans, genus Cygnus, are birds of the family Anatidae, which also includes geese and ducks. Swans usually mate for life, though ‘divorce’ does sometimes occur, particularly following nesting failure. The number of eggs in each clutch ranges from three to eight.

Young swans are known as cygnets, or as swanlings. An adult male is a cob; an adult female is a pen.

The swans are the largest members of the duck family Anatidae, and are amongst the largest flying birds. The largest species, including the mute swan, trumpeter swan, and whooper swan, can reach length of over 60 inches and weigh over 33 pounds. Their wingspans can be almost 10 ft.

The Trumpeter Swan, Cygnus buccinator, is the largest native North American bird, if measured in terms of weight and length, and is (on average) the largest living waterfowl species on earth. It is the North American counterpart of the European Whooper Swan.

 

Swan Quotes

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A rare bird on earth, and very like a black swan.
- Juvenal quotes

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All our geese are swans.
- Robert Burton

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And now this pale swan in her watery nest
Begins the sad dirge of her certain ending.
- William Shakesphere

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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.
- Heinrich Heine

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As I have seen a swan
With bootless labour swim against the tide
And spend her strength with over-matching waves.
- William Shakespeare

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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan’s egg.
- Hans Christian Anderson

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But calm, white calm, was born into a swan
- Elizabeth Coatsworth

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But when the swan departs, you shall remain behind, like an abandoned woman.
- Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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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.
- William Shakespeare

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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.
- Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

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Destiny has brought together and united the body and the soul-swan. He who created them, also separates them.
- Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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Ego: The fallacy whereby a goose thinks he’s a swan

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[Even the warhorses have been exercised. Five years ago, McKenzie came out with a new staging of Swan Lake that] whipped the audience at the Metropolitan Opera House into a frenzied ovation, … a ballet for both the tired critic and the tired businessman.
- Anna Kisselgoff

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Even though the Swans have been there for over 20 years now and really built up a loyal following, AFL on television does not attract the sort of audiences we would like, … We would just have got killed if we went in any earlier. We are putting it on at 10pm, which is not what I would call late, but we would get hammered if we put it on live.
- David White

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Everybody in the United Kingdom classes the swan as a royal bird. They have everybody’s hearts.
- David Barber

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Get my Swan costume ready.
- Anna Pavlova

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He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.
- William Shakespeare

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Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can Her heart inform her tongue–the swan’s down-feather That stands upon the swell at full of tide, And neither way inclines.
- William Shakespeare

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I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of fraity sings His soul and body to their lasting rest.
- William Shakespeare

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I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in ‘Swan Lake’ was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.
- Will Kemp

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I therefore named this isolated and remarkable feature Swan Hill.
- Thomas Mitchell

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I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.
- Graeme Murphy

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I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve’s character’s emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan’s death, which I thought was exploitative.
- Margot Kidder

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I was like a swan – sort of gliding on the top, but my legs were paddling underneath.
- Lee Westwood

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I will play the swan, And die in music.
- William Shakespeare

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In one way, the fickle fish of the mind will be held steady; the swan-soul shall not fly away, and the body-wall will not crumble
- Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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In the process he meets a swan who accepts him.
- Cathy Sturgill

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It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.
- Sri Sathya Sai Baba

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I’ve developed into quite a swan. I’m one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older – until I drop dead of beauty.
- Rufus Wainwright

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I’ve seen 30 swans there in migration.
- Helen Haugh

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