Ugly Duckling Swan Quotes

#1. My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.

Trey Anastasio

#2. Nobody really metamorphoses. Cinderella is always Cinderella, just in a nicer dress. The Ugly Duckling was always a swan, just a smaller version. And I bet the tadpole and the caterpillar still feel the same, even when they're jumping and flying, swimming and floating.
Just like I am now.

Holly Smale

#3. But Neil Josten was a Fox. Andrew called his home; Nicky called him family. Neil wasn't going to lose any of it.

Nora Sakavic

#4. I don't like religion; I don't like anything or anybody which tells me what to do! We must take orders only from our own intelligence!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. It would just be like a movie makeover montage, pop music scoring the ugly girl's transformation from bespectacled duckling to cheerleader swan.

Leila Sales

#6. There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.

Criss Jami

#7. It's your birthright to be snarky. Own it. Live it. Rejoice in it.

Lauren Myracle

#8. I hope you find a place in your life when you can let go and be happy. But I'm not a dirty secret. I'm not bad and wrong for being comfortable with myself, and I won't let you make me feel that way.

Lauren Dane

#9. Elaine slowly transformed from the proverbial ugly duckling into a swan.

Mike Wells

#10. There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.

Maeve Binchy

#11. Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

James Russell Lowell

#12. But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

Friedrich List

#13. And I realized again that real life is different from reel life.

Vikas Swarup

#14. The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole ...

Simone De Beauvoir

#15. My duchess," James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. "She is not a swan, because that would imply she had once been an ugly duckling.

Eloisa James

#16. I have to remind myself that when you exercise, there is a natural calm that comes from knowing that you did something with your body that day. Actually going and working out makes everything else easier and better.

Lena Dunham

#17. The world may see you as an ugly duckling, but God sees you as a magnificent swan.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Barry Ritholtz

#19. I was so urban-centric once. I did not want to see a patch of grass. I did not want to look at a tree. I didn't want to be anywhere near a sparrow, or a squirrel, or a pigeon, because I just wanted to be consumed by the asphalt-jungle aspect of New York.

Carlos Dengler

#20. I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind of an ugly duckling. Always the duckling, never the swan.

Haruki Murakami

#21. I don't even notice the advertisement that comes up on my screen. I'm a smart person and it's just something I've just blacked out because it doesn't seem right to me.

Maggie Gyllenhaal

#22. You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.

Nadia Bjorlin

#23. And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet.

Russell Brand

#24. If you can't solve a problem, enlarge it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower