Swans Quotes

When turkeys mate they think of swans.

Sometimes I'll go by and there are a couple of swans, the next day it's a few ducks. I'd like to stop there every day for a year and capture how it changes, then put it all together to create an incredible image of a traditional English scene.

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.