There’s no mistaking the sound of a duck quacking. Ducks are a part of many people’s lives, whether they’re observed in nature or at a zoo. This compilation of duck quotes explores their place in our culture and why they’re so loved. From Benjamin Franklin to Dr.

The best duck quotes

1. …ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves. — Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

2. When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck. — Penelope Cruz

3. No girl can permanently bolster up a lame–duck visitor, because these day it’s every girl for herself. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls

4. There’s a sort of wooly headed duckiness about you. If I wasn’t so crazy about Marmaduke, I could really marry you Bertie. — P. G. Wodehouse

5. Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them. — Zora Neale Hurston

6. I don’t ever want to be sad about my life. — Tammy Duckworth

7. There’s a sort of wooly headed duckiness about you. If I wasn’t so crazy about Marmaduke, I could really marry you Bertie. — P. G. Wodehouse

8. You all sound like a bunch of ducks! What? What? What? What? Shut up while I’m talking! — Mike Mizanin

9. And I like pygmy goats, because they’re just lovely, and ducks. — Richard Hammond

10. I watched ‘Mighty Ducks.’ ‘Slapshot’ when I was a little older. — Sidney Crosby

11. You cannot find comfort in ducks.Stoop to look into those beady brown eyes, and they will tell you no — Virginia Graham, Consider the Years

12. Remakes are always a challenge and they always are sitting ducks. — Nicolas Cage

13. I actually lost both my legs. I can walk because I got really good health care. — Tammy Duckworth

14. You can’t understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says ‘Duck!’ — Russell Crowe

15. Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them. — Zora Neale Hurston

16. Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. — Michael Caine

17. Be a duck, remain calm on the surface and paddle like hell underneath. — Michael Caine

18. I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I’d dodge every one. That’s how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks. — Muhammad Ali

19. When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck. — Penelope Cruz

20. I have personally seen what a devastating medical condition can cost. — Tammy Duckworth

21. You can’t understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says ‘Duck!’ — Russell Crowe

22. Ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves. — Washington Irving

23. Ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves. — Washington Irving

24. A confident leader is like a duck. Above the water, he is calm and poised while below the water, he is driven by a flurry of focused activity. — Todd Stocker

25. I’m so quick, I could spit in the wind, duck, and let it hit the old lady behind me. — Roddy Piper

26. Guy goes into a bar with a duck under his arm. Bartender says, ‘Where’d you get the pig?’ Guy says, ‘This is a duck.’ Bartender says, ‘I was talking to the duck. — Rodney Dangerfield

27. So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red rose and says ‘Your eyes sparkle like diamonds’. I said ‘Waiter, I asked for a–ROMATIC duck’. — Tommy Cooper

28. A man may take care of a furnace for twenty–five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs. — Robert Benchley

29. You can’t understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says ‘Duck!’ — Russell Crowe

30. No girl can permanently bolster up a lame–duck visitor, because these day it’s every girl for herself. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls

31. Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I’m wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck. — Rick Riordan

32. Women are a lot like ducks–they don’t like mud on their butts. — Phil Robertson

33. You all sound like a bunch of ducks! What? What? What? What? Shut up while I’m talking! — Mike Mizanin

34. Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men’s faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy, I must be held a rancorous enemy. — William Shakespeare

35. And I like pygmy goats, because they’re just lovely, and ducks. — Richard Hammond

36. It is part of the novelist’s convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance. — Virginia Woolf

37. I’m so quick, I could spit in the wind, duck, and let it hit the old lady behind me. — Roddy Piper

38. If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible… now there’s the complete package of womanhood. — Phil Robertson

39. I acted with Albie at Stratford–on–Avon in the 1959 season. We in the acting company tended to hang out at the pub known as the Dirty Duck. — Vanessa Redgrave

40. Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain. — Tom Robbins, Wild Ducks Flying Backward

41. Never trust a duck. — Will Herondale

42. If your woman picks your ducks, and she cooks and carries her Bible… now there’s the complete package of womanhood. — Phil Robertson

43. I look like a duck. It’s the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck. — Michelle Pfeiffer

44. My dad used to hunt ducks, and my mom would put them in the pot. We lived really modestly. We had very little money. — Megan Fox

45. All the little duckies with their heads in the waterHeads in the waterAll the little duckies with their heads in the waterOh, such sweet little duckies. — Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea

46. Never trust a duck. — Will Herondale

47. It is part of the novelist’s convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance. — Virginia Woolf

48. What problems?’ ‘Well for starters.. you’re an evil duck killer. — Nicholas Sparks

49. Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked. — Oscar Wilde

50. …ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves. — Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Conclusion

We hope you enjoyed these amazing quotes about ducks, and that they brought some joy to your day. Ducks are truly inspiring and amazing creatures, and their wisdom should be shared with all. Whether you’ve been a duck fan your entire life, or you’re just learning to appreciate their beauty, these quotes are sure to make you smile.