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Unfortunately these swans were infected with H5N1 from Asia. Consequently we need to consider this case confirmed.

Reinhard Kurth

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Teena Booth

The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.

Wilkie Collins

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

Hans Christian Andersen

Seeing the swans swimming, the herons wanted to do it too. But the poor herons drowned and died, and floated with their heads down and their feet up.

Guru Gobind Singh

I think it is a worrisome situation, especially because we think that swans could be an indicator species, meaning that swans are relatively susceptible and so it could well be that other aquatic birds could be infected. Now we have seen it in Greece and Italy and now Germany. It is spreading all over Europe.

Albert Osterhaus

I have seen old ships sail like swans asleep / Beyond the village which men still call Tyre.

James Elroy Flecker

We are really young, but (Swan's) success has helped our program to move forward. He was a great golfer and his success at the university and the world of golf is unparalleled among local golfers.

Jim Tuley

Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home.

The Dhammapada

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.

Van Wyck Brooks

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

Maria Sharapova

Unfortunately, it has been confirmed that the swans were infected with H5N1 from Asia. We have no doubts whatsoever any more.

Reinhard Kurth

Even though the Swans have been there for over 20 years now and really built up a loyal following, AFL on television does not attract the sort of audiences we would like, ... We would just have got killed if we went in any earlier. We are putting it on at 10pm, which is not what I would call late, but we would get hammered if we put it on live.

David White

According to the official British tests, the three dead swans found in Hungary last week had the H5N1 bird flu strain.

Andras Batiz

Bird-flu in wild swans in Germany, Austria and Iran are still cause for concern.

Neill Pickering

Swans fly no more than 50km a day. Looking at the way the disease has spread ­ one day it's in Italy, a day later it's in the north of Germany ­ that makes us believe that there are other bird species spreading the disease.

Albert Osterhaus

I've known Paul Roos for a long time so I'm going for the Swans.

Andrew Gaze