Beautiful Swans Quotes

#1. Ugly ducklings often turn into beautiful swans when they are tested.

Sudha Murty

#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.

Maeve Binchy

#3. Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

Agnes De Mille

#4. Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

C.S. Lewis

#5. But earlier this week on a wooded path,
I thought the swans afloat on the reservoir
were the true geniuses,
the ones who had figured out how to fly,
how to be both beautiful and brutal,
and how to mate for life.

Billy Collins

#6. Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Maya Angelou

#7. We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.

Clifford Geertz

#8. The swans are unnaturally beautiful. They mate for life.
I wish they could talk. I have questions.

Suzanne Finnamore

#9. Cheesecake Factory is great. It should have Michelin stars.

Blake Lively

#10. 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.

Thom Yorke

#11. This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan.

Barry Ritholtz

#12. Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful.

Philip Massinger

#13. in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Anonymous

#14. Knowledge is to the strong, and we are weak. Too much wisdom would perchance blind our imperfect sight, and too much strength would make us drunk, and overweight our feeble reason till it fell, and we were drowned in the depths of our own vanity.

H. Rider Haggard

#15. Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly.

Helen Mirren

#16. If I'm going down, I'm going down with lipstick on.

Beth Yarnall

#17. Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.

Michael Gira

#18. I don't think you're happier if you're thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My heroines do not become beautiful elegant swans, they become confident ducks and get on with life.

Maeve Binchy