Albatross Quotes-2
Albatross Quotes 2
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Albatross Quotes
“Rather than honor the president, they’ve instead awarded an albatross around his neck and opened him up to mockery. As an American, I’m happy for the president’s recognition, but my hope is that over time his record shows him to be deserving — not for his hopeful quest, but for actual achievement.”
~ Tony Fratto
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She competes well, never gives anything away and plays an offensive style. She has improved her serve and is always attacking, … shouldn’t be an albatross because she knows what she can do and what she can’t do.
~ Nick Bollettieri
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That’s something that’s going to be an albatross for us throughout the remainder of the year. What do you do? How do you fix it? It’s going to be an issue but we’ve got to get better in other areas so it’s not the issue that’s going to cost us games.
~ Andy Kennedy
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The consumer long-distance sector is viewed as an albatross for all of the long distance carriers these days. AT&T is not the only one considering such an action.
~ David Burks
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The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art.
~ Stephen Stills
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The pressure is hardly off. It’s just as much pressure as it has been, it’s just without the albatross of bankruptcy hanging over it.
~ Robert Mann
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The special election may be an albatross today, but it won’t necessarily be one in 2006. If even one of his initiatives passes in November, the governor could declare victory.
~ Tim Hodson
Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus): Click for image credit
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The trend in Virginia has merit, … It says more if Kilgore wins because it means Bush wasn’t the albatross everyone predicted.
~ Jennifer Duffy
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They thought they were putting an albatross around my neck. Little did they know they were building me a life raft.
~ Ken Blackwell
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This program will be an albatross around the necks of Republicans in 2006.
~ Luis Miranda
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This project is in a downward spiral, even members of the nuclear industry are looking for other ways to store the waste,and throwing more money at this problem-ridden albatross will not fill gaps in the science because the science is not there.
~ Shelley Berkley
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To the extent that someone is there to keep dredging it up, it’s going to be an albatross around her neck forever. Blagojevich is going to drag this out again. That’s the real test. This is just a preview.
~ Chris Mooney
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Unless Sean is at ease with that course of action, it’s quite an albatross for upwards of two decades.
~ Greg Zandlo
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Way I remember it, albatross was a ship’s good luck…’til some idiot killed it. Yes, I’ve read a poem. Try not to faint.
~ Joss Whedon
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To keep your marriage brimming, with love…
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To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.
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A Lovebird is one of nine species of the genus Agapornis. Lovebirds are social and affectionate small parrots. Eight species are native to the African continent, while the Grey-headed Lovebird is native to Madagascar. Their name stems from the parrots’ strong, monogamous pair bonding and the long periods in which paired birds will spend sitting together.
Lovebirds live in small flocks and eat fruit, vegetables, grasses and seed. There are Black-winged Lovebirds that also eat insects and figs, and Black-collared Lovebirds that have a special dietary requirement for native figs.
Some species of lovebirds are kept as pets. Some species are selectively bred in aviculture for their color mutations. The average lifespan of lovebirds are 10 to 15 years.
A Few Love & Marriage Quotes
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Marriage, n: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. ~ Ambrose Bierce
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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character. ~ Peter Devries
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May she share everything with her husband, including the housework.
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She knows all about me and loves me just the same.
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Many marriages would be better if the husband and wife clearly understood that they’re on the same side.
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Marriage–a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.
Hybrids (Fischer's Lovebird x Masked Lovebird) in Nairobi, Kenya. - "May she share everything with her husband, including the housework."
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
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Happy marriages begin when we marry the one we love, and they blossom when we love the one we married.
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We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It’s called love. ~ Gene Perret
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After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. ~ Douglas William Jerrold
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There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. ~ Martin Luther
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Funny Marriage Quotes
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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My wife suggested a book for me to read to enhance our relationship. It’s titled, “Women are from Venus, Men are Wrong.”
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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Love is blind, marriage is the eye-opener.
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When a man steals your wife there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
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I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
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You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.
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In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.
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The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he’s a baby.
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I fell in love at first sight… I should have looked twice.
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We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.
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Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.
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Some Famous Love Quotes
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It has been said that we need just three things in life: Something to do, Something to look forward to And someone to love.
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Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. ~ Gary Zukav
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Every man is afraid of something. That’s how you know he’s in love with you; when he is afraid of losing you.
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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. ~ Judy Garland quotes
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I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love ~ Robert Tizon
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If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.
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It has been said that we need just three things in life: Something to do, Something to look forward to And someone to love.
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It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.
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It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.
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It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone – but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
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Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.
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Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
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Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.
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Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
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Love is one of the hardest words to say and one of the easiest to hear.
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Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
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The love that lasts the longest is the love that is never returned. ~ William Somerset Maugham
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The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. ~ Morrie Schwartz quotes
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The worst thing you can do for love is deny it; so when you find that special someone, don’t let anyone or anything to get in your way.
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There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. ~ Johnny Depp quotes
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To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world. ~ Brandi Snyder
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True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
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When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. When you cried you had my urge to hold you. When you said you loved me, you had my heart forever.
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You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.
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You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
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Your heart is my piñata. ~ Chuck Palahniuk quotes
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Albatross Quotes
Albatross
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Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds allied to the procellariids, storm-petrels and diving-petrels in the order Procellariiformes. They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific. They are absent from the North Atlantic.
Food: They feed on fish, squid, and krill by scavenging, surface seizing or diving.
Nesting: Albatrosses are colonial, nesting for the most part on remote oceanic islands, often with several species nesting together.
Breeding: A breeding season can take over a year from laying to fledgling, with only a single egg laid in each breeding attempt.
Taking off is one of the main times albatrosses use flapping in order to fly, and is the most energetically demanding part of a journey.
Albatross Quotes
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And a good south wind sprung up behind, The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariner’s hollo! “God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends that plague thus thee!– Why look’st thou so?”–”With my cross-bow I shot the Albatross.””
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Before the election, some German magazines depicted Germany as an eagle ready to soar. I fear we’ve created an albatross.
~ Thomas Mayer
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But really, this business of consensus is becoming a huge albatross around the neck of a lot of delegations.
~ United Nations PRESIDENT (19th june 1997)
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Clearly we are disappointed by these results. The battery business remains an albatross around the company’s neck and it will take a least a quarter before these issues are cleared up.
~ Bill Chappell
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East Germany has been an albatross,”
~ Jeremy Leaman
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“Great albatross!–the meanest birds Spring up and flit away, While thou must toil to gain a flight, And spread those pinions grey; But when they once are fairly poised, Far o’er each chirping thing Thou sailest wide to other lands, E’en sleeping on the wing.”
~ Charles Godfrey Leland
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He deplored the reckless illegal fishing under flags of convenience that threatened the stocks of toothfish in the Antarctic, with consequences for birdlife, including the wandering albatross.
~ JOHN PRESCOTT
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I understand. I want to get this albatross off my neck.
~ United Nations SECRETARY-GENERAL (3th july 1997)
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I’m not saying he’s going to get a pass. If the state economy is in the hole his entire term, that’s going to be an albatross. Any kind of honeymoon he had is gone. It’s the same old typical politician, I think, that’s how a lot of that anger is going to be seen.
~ Del Ali
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Indeed, the mascot of this process, the albatross, had not settled around the Committee’s neck like the ancient mariner’s curse, but had instead taken flight.
~ ANDHINI IYER KRISHNA (2nd june 2000)
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It is a beautiful area for albatross, on a protected ridge overlooking the ocean with trade winds needed for their first flight in a few months.
~ Brenda Zaun
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It’s common for fissures to occur, in the last days of any administration. Many leaders no longer feel beholden to the governor. They’re also concerned about their next election — and carrying the albatross of the previous administration.
~ David Adler
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It’s in the interests of all countries and peoples, but most especially it’s in the interests of the North Koreans themselves that the DPRK shed the albatross of its nuclear program and join the international community.
~ Alexander Vershbow
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My decision is under extreme duress. The court, I feel, is placing an albatross around my neck.
~ Ronald Reed
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Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.
~ Stephen Stills
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Bird Superstitions
A Dozen Bird Superstitions and a Few Bird Quotes
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Superstitions are the beliefs and rituals that are followed by mankind from very ancient times. Many are notions that do not have any valid reason or knowledge. Some are known as irrational beliefs; superstitions have always ruled our lives in some ways or the other.
There are various kinds of superstitions regarding animals, home, hair, nails, door windows, marriages, births, deaths, lucky charms and nature etc. There are many superstitions that center on the different kinds of birds.
There are various superstitions related to the species called birds. One of the very ancient beliefs is that a bird flying into the house means a death in the family very soon. This happens only in the case of white birds.
Some people believe that the call of a bird from the south means it is good for the crops and a bird call from the northern direction means tragedy while from the west, a bird call means good luck and the eastern bird call signifies good love. People from Ireland say that a bird doing poo poo on the car means good luck for the car’s owner. This is also said if the bird craps on your head.
Blackbirds
In many parts of the world, it is said that if two male blackbirds sit together, it signifies a good omen. A blackbird building its nest in the house means that the house will see good fortune the whole year round.
Crows
There are many superstitions relating to crows as well. It is said that the cawing of a crow early morning means the arrival of a guest in the house. Seeing one crow brings bad luck and two crows mean good luck. The sight of three crows means health whereas seeing four crows means getting wealth. In the same way five crows together seen brings illness and the glimpse of six crows indicates a death in the family.
I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases. ~ by Harry S. Truman
Cuckoo
The cuckoo is a very lucky bird in Britain. There is a belief in England that when you hear the first call of the cuckoo, the health condition that you are undergoing at that particular time will remain the same the whole year. It means if someone is ill, he will remain so for the whole year. It is even said that a wish made on haring the first call of the cuckoo always turns out to be true.
“In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!” Simone Weil
Dove
The dove is the messenger of the love God, Venus and it is said that it is the only animal that the devil cannot transform into. Only the miners think it to be an ill omen to see a dove before going underground for mining. They avoid doing so after seeing a dove.
“How come the dove gets to be the peace symbol? How about the pillow? It has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn’t have that dangerous beak” Jack Handy
Ducks and Geese
The hissing and quacking of a duck or geese is a prediction that wind and rain is on the way. The duck that lays dun-colored eggs should be killed immediately as they are ill omens. Much legend says that the geese are silly birds and their flying over the house means the approach of death in the family.
“Ducking for apples – change one letter and it’s the story of my life.” Dorothy Parker
Jackdaw
The jackdaw bird is a combination of both good and bad fortune. A single bird perching on the wall of the house means misfortune whereas a whole group doing so means the arrival of good fortune in the house.
An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, which a cat observing, asked, “Why he would hoard up those round shining things that he could make no use of?” “Why,” said the jackdaw, “my master has a whole chestfull, and makes no more use of them that I do.” ~ by Jonathan Swift
Jaybird
The jaybirds are known to be the reporters of the Devil because they are said to report all the bad things to the Devil which took place in the whole week.
There are so many things to learn and it’s not just a source of amusement, but it is sometimes hilarious. Not too long ago they brought in this woman who was about 70 and she was naked as a jaybird out directing traffic on I-65. ~ by Bill Robinson
Kingfisher
The kingfisher is a good luck charm for everyone.
After the kingfisher’s wing Has answered light to light, and is silent, the light is still At the still point of the turning world. ~ TS Eliot
And on the lighter side …if you like beer or girls
Kingfisher Sexy Calendar Models are the girls featured in the annual Kingfisher Calendar, which is published by Kingfisher breweries. Kingfisher is the most popular beer in India with a 36% market share in the country.
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Swan Quotes
Swan Quotes and Quotations A – I
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Bird quotes about and referencing swans
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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
A Trumpeter Swan (Cygnus buccinator) at the Calgary Zoo: Click for image Credit
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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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