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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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Swan Quotes and Quotations J – S

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Bird quotes about and referencing swans

 

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Trumpeter Swan

The swans are generally found in temperate environments, rarely occurring in the tropics. Several species are migratory, either wholly or partly so. Trumpeter Swans are almost entirely migratory.

Swans feed in the water and on land. They are almost entirely herbivorous, although small numbers of aquatic animals may be eaten. In the water food is obtained by up-ending or dabbling, and their diet is composed of the roots, tubers, stems and leaves of aquatic and submerged plants.

Swans form monogamous pair bonds that last for many years, and in some cases these can last for life. The Trumpeter Swan, Cygnus buccinator is the largest North American swan. It was hunted almost to extinction but has since recovered.

 

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Just because swans mate for life, I don’t think its that big a deal. First of all, if you’re a swan, you’re probably not going to find a swan that looks much better than the one you’ve got, so why not mate for life?
- Jack Handy

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Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St Mary’s Lake Float double, swan and shadow! We will not see them; will not go, To-day, nor yet to-morrow; Enough if in our hearts we know There’s such a place asYarrow. BeYarrow stream unseen, unknown; It must, or we shall rue it: We have a vision of our own, Ah! why should we undo it? The treasured dreams of times long past, We’ll keep them, winsome Marrow! For when we’re there, although ’tis fair, ‘Twill be another Yarrow!
- William Wordsworth

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Let music sound while he doth make his choice;
Then if he lose he makes a swanlike end, Fading in music.
- William Shakespeare

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Let the long contention cease!
Geese are swans, and swans are geese.
- Matthew Arnold

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Like some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.
- Tennyson

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[Most weeks of most years, the Swans are half-famous and half-anonymous in Sydney, and it suits them. This week, they were suddenly exposed.] I’m sick of seeing my face in the papers and on TV, … After all, I didn’t murder anyone.
- Barry Hall

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My soul is an enchanted boat, Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Now wakes the hour
Now sleeps the swan
Behold the dream
The dream is gone
- Pink Floyd

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People expect the clergy to have the grace of a swan, the friendliness of a sparrow, the strength of an eagle and the night hours of an owl – and some people expect such a bird to live on the food of a canary.
- Edward Jeffrey

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Place me on Sunium’s marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die.
- Lord Byron

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Prays Nanak, please hear my prayer, You are the pool, and You are the soul-swan. You are the lotus flower of the day and You are the water-lily of the night. You Yourself behold them, and blossom forth in bliss.
- Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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Reydell and Swan Lake look like they haven’t fared so well. They haven’t gotten any rain down there.”
- Steve Bays

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Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.
- Lord Alfred Tennyson

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Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan’s neck – so weak.
- Maria Sharapova

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Swans sing before they die; ’tweren’t a bad thing – Should certain persons die before they sing
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames That so did take Eliza, and our James!
- Ben Jonson

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Swan Quotes and Quotations T’s

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Bird quotes about and referencing swans

 

Swan Definition

swan
1 [swon]
–noun
1. any of several large, stately aquatic birds of the subfamily Anserinae, having a long, slender neck and usually pure-white plumage in the adult. Compare mute swan, trumpeter swan, whistling swan, whooper swan.
2. a person or thing of unusual beauty, excellence, purity, or the like.
3. Literary . a person who sings sweetly or a poet.
4. ( initial capital letter ) Astronomy . the constellation Cygnus.

World English Dictionary
swan

— n
1. any large aquatic bird of the genera Cygnus and Coscoroba, having a long neck and usually a white plumage: family Anatidae, order Anseriformes
2. rare , literary
a. a poet
b. ( capital when part of a title or epithet ): the Swan of Avon (Shakespeare)

— vb , swans , swanning , swanned
3. informal ( intr; usually foll by around or about ) to wander idly

 

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Terry backed up and did a swan dive into the water and was swimming after the fish and the rod. It’s the only time I ever saw a fish catch a man.
- Curt Gowdy

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That was ugly. I was waiting for the ugly duckling to turn into the swan, but it never happened.
- Dave Huber

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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.
- Phineas Fletcher

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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.
- Wilkie Collins

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The immortal swan that did her life deplore.
- Giles Fletcher (“The Younger”)

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The jelous swan, agens hire deth that syngith.
- Geoffrey Chaucer

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The one swan doesn’t mean it has arrived here.
- Sir David King

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The silver swan, who living had no note, When death approached, unlocked her silent throat; Leaning her breast against the reedy shore, Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more: ‘Farewell, all joys; Oh death, come close mine eyes; More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.’
-Gibbons, Orlando

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The stately-sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale; And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet Bears forward fierce, and guards his osier isle, Protective of his young.
- James Thomson

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The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear.
- Heinrich Heine

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The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.
- Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.
- Marcus Valerius Martial

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The swan on still St. Mary’s lake Float double, swan and shadow!
- William Wordsworth

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The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.
- Heinrich Heine

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The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet.
- John Milton

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The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
- Henry Miller

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The wild swan’s death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear The warble was low, and full and clear.
- Lord Alfred Tennyson

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The woods decay, the woods decayand fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after manya summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.
- Lord Alfred Tennyson

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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers’ battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain’s tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.
- Federico Garcia Lorca

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There?s no question that the prettiest part of the course is where Swan Creek goes through the property.
- Dan Hathaway

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There’s a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.
- Thomas Hood

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They depart with their thoughts well-collected, they are not happy in their abode; like swans who have left their lake, they leave their house and home.
- Friedrich Max Muller

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This produced much stronger ground motion than similar quakes centered at Swan Island or Kelley Point in North Portland.
- Yumei Wang

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This wild swan of a world is no hunter’s game. Better bullets than yours would miss the white breast, Better mirrors than yours would crack in the flame.
-Jeffers, (John) Robinson

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Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home.
- The Dhammapada

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Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the Fates summon him, sing at the fords of Maeander.
- John Milton

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To begin with, we emphasize that pumping water from the lake will actually help Swan Lake and will not hurt it at all. We’ll be pumping from the bottom of the lake, and that will stimulate the flow more so than it is now.
- Wendell T. Nealon

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Swan Quotes and Quotations U – Z

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Unfortunately these swans were infected with H5N1 from Asia. Consequently we need to consider this case confirmed.
- Reinhard Kurth

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Unfortunately, it has been confirmed that the swans were infected with H5N1 from Asia. We have no doubts whatsoever any more.
- Reinhard Kurth

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We bodged again, as I have been a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide And spend her strength with overmatching waves.
- William Shakespeare

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We did this seven, eight months ago. We decided we wanted Clint Swan. He was at the top of our list… I don’t want to introduce a new basketball coach for a long time.
- BIll Dorulla

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We had for Dinner a Calf’s Head, boiled Fowl and tongue, a Saddle of Mutton Roasted on the Side Table, and a fine Swan roasted with Currant Jelly Sauce for the first Course. The second Course a couple of Wild Fowl called Dun Fowls, Larks, Blancmange, Tarts etc. etc. and a good Dessert of Fruit after amongst which was a Damson Cheese. I never eat a bit of Swan before, and I think it good eating with sweet sauce. The Swan was killed three weeks before it was eat and yet not the least bad taste in it.
- James Woodforde ‘Diary of a Country Parson’, 1780

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We were the best team in the world: European champions in 1984, we qualified without a hitch and 86 was to be the swan song for a very experienced side.
- Michel Patini

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We’re still betting $3 the Swans, but I can see that shortening.
- Gary Davies

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When all the world is young, lad, / And all the trees are green; / And every goose a swan, lad / And every lass a queen; / Then hey for boot and horse, lad, / And round the world away: / Young blood must have its course, lad,/ And every dog his day.
- Charles Kingsley

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When as a swan he rises from the water he does not withdraw his one foot. If in truth he were to withdraw it, there would be neither to-day, nor to-morrow, no night and no day, never would the dawn appear.
- Atharva Veda

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When turkeys mate they think of swans.
- Johnny Carson

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Which is the swan, and which is the crane? It is only by His Glance of Grace. Whoever is pleasing to Him, O Nanak, is transformed from a crow into a swan.
- Sri Guru Granth Sahib

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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.
- Socrates

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