Top 173 Swan Quotes & Sayings

I have this really morbid, awesome love for the movie 'Black Swan.'

My mother is part albino." Bella Swan

In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!

I already know how strong you are. You didn't have to break the furniture." —Bella Swan

Get my swan costume ready.

I think Kristen is incredibly brave. She played such a good version Bella Swan, people think Kristen Stewart is Bella Swan. She's not, you know? If you meet Kristen, she's wildly kind of giggly and vivacious and rebellious and naughty - all things that Bella Swan isn't.

I was a lone duck in a swan-filled pond who criticized everyone.

In the story of Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he realized that he was a Swan. Each of us has something Special, a swan of some sort, hidden inside somewhere. But until we recognize that it's there, what can we do but splash around, treading water? The Wise are Who They Are. They work with what they've got and do what they can do.

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

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.

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

Yeah, it's an off day when I don't get somebody telling me how edible I smell." - Bella Swan.

Having done so many versions, I never felt like an artist in 'Swan Lake.'

O woman shapely as a swan.

Even if you enter the dirty water, stay neat like a white swan!

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

The key to building long muscle as you swim is stretching arms far ahead of you in the water, sort of like a swan.

Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake - a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin.

Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.

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

My last night as Isabella Swan. Tomorrow night, I would be Bella Cullen. Though the whole marriage ordeal was a thorn in my side, I had to admit that I liked the sound of that. - bella swan

They were doing the Dying Swan at the ballet. And there was a rumor that some bookmarkers had drifted into town from upstate New York and that they had fixed the bullet. There was a lot of money bet on the swan to live.

Where are the leaders?' Sapphique asked. 'In the fortresses,' the swan replied. 'And the poets?' 'Lost in dreams of other worlds.' 'And the craftsmen?' 'Forging machines to challenge the darkness.' 'And the Wise, who made the world?' The swan lowered its black neck sadly. 'Dwindled to crones and sorcerers in towers.

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!

There's no law that says I can't cook in my own house." - Charlie Swan

Remember that you are a Black Swan.

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

I had the opportunity to train with Natalie Portman for 'Black Swan,' and the program we created was intense and involved a lot of travel.

Holy crow!" ~Bella Swan

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

Jim Swan was my father, but Reg Barnes was my dad.

This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.

The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.

I have this really morbid, awesome love for the movie Black Swan.

You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.

A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.

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

'Don't Look Back' is my first YA contemporary mystery/thriller. It's been described as 'Black Swan' meets 'Pretty Little Liars'.

People think I got rich out of 'Swan ,but I didn't at all: it's the royalties from 'Oliver' and 'My Fair Lady' that have kept me going.

Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things. Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme, Empty darkness under the death-tent wings. She will build a nest of the swan's bones and hatch a new brood, Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed.

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.

Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan.

Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's part; if I were a swan, I would do as a swan. But now I am a rational creature, and I ought to praise God. This is my work. I do it, nor will I desert my post, so long as I am allowed to keep it. And I ask you to join me in this same song.

When I saw the movie 'Black Swan,' I liked the darker aspect of it, the more dramatics, and that's what I like to do for my programs.

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan.

I will make thee think thy swan a crow.

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

After eighteen years of being utterly ordinary, I finally found that I can shine" -Bella Swan <3

'Swan Lake' can be a nightmare. To make a 'Swan Lake' that is worth it, every single movement and breath has to be perfect. When you have an idea of 'Swan Lake' that is as high as that, it's almost impossible.

On the ice, I feel like I can become a different person, and the darker dramatics, the Black Swan, is confident: she's free to do whatever she wants, and that attitude helps in my skating. The White Swan is, I feel, more what I'm actually like off the ice: I'm a lot quieter, and if someone tells me to do something, I'll just do it.

I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth.

Blood is the leitmotif of 'Black Swan.'

'Swan Lake' was my favourite piece of music when I was younger, and I never had a chance to skate to it.