White Swan

White Swan may refer to:

  • White Swan, Washington, a census-designated place in Yakima County, Washington
  • The White Swan, a 19th century establishment in London, England
  • Tupolev Tu-160 (NATO reporting name: Blackjack), a Russian bomber, nicknamed 'White Swan'
  • White Swan (prison), a maximum security prison in Solikamsk, Russia

Famous quotes containing the words white and/or swan:

    “... how often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House ...”
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)

    “But all is changed, that high horse riderless,
    Though mounted in that saddle Homer rode
    Where the swan drifts upon a darkening flood.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)