Ugly Chicklings
Good thing that ugly is only skin deep
“The Ugly Duckling” - Hans Christian Andersen
A little duckling was very sad because he thought he was the ugliest amongst all his brothers and sisters. They would not play with him and teased the poor ugly duckling. One day, he saw his reflection in the water and cried, “Nobody likes me. I am so ugly.” He decided to leave home and went far away into the woods.
Deep in the forest, he saw a cottage in which there lived an old woman, her hen, and her cat. The duckling stayed with them for some time but he was unhappy there and soon left. When winter set in the poor duckling almost froze to death. A peasant took him home to his wife and children. The poor duckling was terrified of the children and escaped. The ugly duckling spent the winter in a marshy pond.
Finally, spring arrived. One day, the duckling saw a beautiful swan swimming in the pond and fell in love with her. But then he remembered how everyone made fun of him and he bent his head down in shame. When he saw his own reflection in the water he was astonished. He was not an ugly duckling anymore, but a handsome young swan! Now, he knew why he had looked so different from his brothers and sisters. “They were ducklings but I was a baby swan!” he said to himself.
He married the beautiful swan and lived happily ever after.
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Birds of a feather flock together. - English Proverb
Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive. - Coco Chanel
The freedom of birds is an insult to me. - Cormac McCarthy
The littlest birds sing the prettiest songs. - Tanyas
The shell must break before the bird can fly. - Unknown
Was there a bird for the souls of people like me? - Ruta Sepetys
Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - Salvador Dali
The bird who dares to fall is the bird who learns to fly. - Unknown
I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird. - Coco Chanel
Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly. - Mary Schmich
The early bird catches the worm, eats more, and dies sooner. - Czech Proverb
The Bird of Hermes is my name, eating my wings to make me tame. - Kohta Hirano
I'm so ugly my mother had morning sickness - AFTER I was born. - Rodney Dangerfield
A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing. - Bret Harte
Woodpecker: 1. A knocking bird; 2. A 17th Century prosthetic device. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. - Chinese Proverb
In order to see birds it is necessary to become a part of the silence. - Robert Lynd
I'm so ugly I stuck my head out the window and got arrested for mooning. - Rodney Dangerfield
Though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken? - Lorrie Moore
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost. - Arthur Miller
I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars... the rest I squandered. - George Best
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song. - Lou Holtz
Birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky. - Mehmet M Ildan
No living thing is ugly in this world. Even a tarantula considers itself beautiful. - Munia Khan
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. - Aldous Huxley
Birds find shelter during the rain, but eagles avoid rain by flying above the clouds. - Abdul Kalam
I'm so ugly my father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet. - Rodney Dangerfield
Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind. Listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody. - Eubie Blake
Love is not only the story of butterflies or birds; it is also the story of jackals and hounds. - M.F. Moonzajer
A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return. - Jewish Proverb
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. - James Baldwin
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. - Franklin D Roosevelt
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. - Alma Gluck
One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. - Dale Carnegie
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. - Hal Borland
You can not prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building a nest in your hair. - Chinese Proverb
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. - Eric Berne
The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars. - Bjork
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. - Robert Lynd