Mandarin Ducks Quotes

#1. Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate.

Katherine Paterson

#2. Beneath the light, the river and hills are beautiful, The spring breeze bears the fragrance of flowers and grass. The mud has thawed, and swallows fly around. On the warm sand, mandarin ducks are sleeping.

Du Fu

#3. The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep.

Murasaki Shikibu

#4. We were to be like long vines with entwined roots, like trees that stand a thousand years, like a pair of mandarin ducks mated for life

Lisa See

#5. We can fly, you know. We just don't know how to think the right thoughts and levitate ourselves off the ground.

Michael Jackson

#6. Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.

Anne-Marie Duff

#7. ... I just figured it would be easier to do the math problem with the numbers in the correct colors.

Wendy Mass

#8. The bottom line is that TV can either be a great asset to your career, or if you're a complete ass that people hate, it can be the final nail in your coffin.

Bret Michaels

#9. I swear ... I'll deliver the message for the love of my country.

Kristen Britain

#10. The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.

Mike Tyson

#11. Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

Tim Huelskamp

#12. They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.

Denis Kearney

#13. I'm a little hibernating animal. Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that's why I moved to New York when I was like 18, because there, there are just so many people that there's no one and you're just lost. You're completely invisible and I find that very liberating.

Ani DiFranco

#14. I'm not an actress, you know. I don't know what's going on. And I'm supposed to be the villain.

Gisele Bundchen

#15. You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Lucille Ball