“Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.”
“It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!”
“His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful 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.”
“A person who promises and does not fulfill his promise is similar to an egg that never hatches.”
“And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
“Aye, they be eggs alright, just not from thunder. They be Cinderflare's eggs. They be all broken 'cause the young'ns hatched a few months ago.”