I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.
There are no ugly ducklings.
Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water...If I find in myself a desire, which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
Then he rustled his feathers, curved his slender neck, and cried joyfully, from the depths of his heart, 'I never dreamed of such happiness as this, while I was an ugly duckling.
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.
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.
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.
He giggled like a puppy being tickled by a kitten wearing a duckling costume.
The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.
Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.
I never dreamed of so much happiness when I was the Ugly Duckling!
Prince Charles is the only member of the Royal Family who ever left Cinderella for the Ugly Duckling.
I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
I was always the ugly duckling; I never got attention from girls.
I grew up as the ugly duckling, they called me 'la prieta fea', which means ugly dark one - that was my nickname.
Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.
There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.
I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.
This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan.
I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.
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.
Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.
Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. And if I threaten you, I'm going to blackmail you.I said, 'Momma, why don't they call it 'whitemail'? They lie too.'
In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something.
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