Nests famous quotes

Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
-- Abraham Cowley

#Book #World #Nests

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
-- Alan Perlis

#Nests #Parentheses #Toasts

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
-- Alice Munro

#Nests #Information #Magpies

By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest.
-- Ashanti

#Bird #Nests #Practicality

Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Bird #Safe #Nests

My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.
-- Chloe Sevigny

#Real #Rooms #Nests

You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.
-- Cynthia Lewis

#Bird #Trying #Nests

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.
-- Edith Wharton

#Vanity #Weight #Nests

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)
-- Edmond Jabes

#Bird #Doubt #Nests

I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.
-- Estella Warren

#Eggs #Roles #Nests

As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time, ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.
-- Eva Herzigova

#Cooking #Room Service #Nests

God is the nest we build together.
-- Gene Wolfe

#Together #Nests

I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.
-- George Eliot

#Memories #Nests #Littles

Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.
-- Gresham Barrett

#Retirement #Eggs #Nests

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.
-- Henry David Thoreau

#Eggs #Nests #Sides

Hatched in the same nest.
-- Horace

#Nests

Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.
-- Ian Fleming

#Long #Chinese #Nests

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Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.
-- Jack Hanna

#Nests #Boat #Alligators

The Universe will kick you out of your nest so you can fly.
-- James Arthur Ray

#Risk #Nests #Kicks

They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.
-- Jeanette Winterson

#Hair #Mad #Nests

Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
-- John Bunyan

#Prayer #Temptation #Nests

When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking with good Baruch, great things for ourselves, but Providence by a particular or general calamity overturns our plans (Jer. 45:4,5), and all this to turn our hearts from the creature to God.
-- John Flavel

#Heart #Thinking #Nests

It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.
-- John Heywood

#Nests

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest
-- John Lithgow

#Earth #Nests #Foul

Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.
-- John Maeda

#Design #Nests #Ends

And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.
-- John Milton

#Song #Larks #Nests

You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.
-- Ken Blackwell

#Trying #Nests #Hornets

The big nest was in Afghanistan, thats not quite cleared, then there are nests in the Philippines, there are nests in Indonesia, the Malaysians are clearing up their nests.
-- Lee Kuan Yew

#Nests #Philippines #Bigs

[S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand scale. There is no moral difference between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax or any other social program.
-- Leonard Read

#Differences #Liberty #Nests

Follow Through is elegant, sure footed, smart—a nest of sticks that won’t stay sticks—a nest of sticks that snowballs—scary and marvelous.
-- Lucy Corin

#Smart #Scary #Nests

Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves.
-- Lyndon LaRouche

#Nuisance #Sitting #Nests

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.
-- Mariska Hargitay

#Mean #Eggs #Nests

See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys: No fears of future want molest The downy quiet of their nest.
-- Mary Wortley Montagu

#Eye #Joy #Nests

Wherever I fly from my own dear nest, I always come back, for home is the best.
-- Maud Lindsay

#Home #Nests #Dear

My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an area of suspension as in a hanging nest that is almost entirely encapsulated.
-- Maxine Kumin

#Writing #Nests #Needs

For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.
-- Mervyn Peake

#Book #Nests #Use

If I talk to a woman for more than five minutes I can tell you exactly whether she's an Aidan girl or a Mr. Big girl. Aidan girls are more interested in nurturing relationships and building a nest while Mr. Big girls are more about show and having fun.
-- Michael Patrick King

#Girl #Fun #Nests

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.
-- Michelle Moran

#Animal #Bird #Nests

People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.
-- Michelle Pfeiffer

#Laughing #People #Nests

Bogotá seemed a cruel towering place, like an eagles' nest now inhabited by vultures and their dying prey.
-- Paul Theroux

#Eagles #Dying #Nests

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
-- Pema Chodron

#Men #Land #Nests

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
-- Pema Chodron

#Experience #Nests #Alive

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
-- Pope Francis

#Church #Nests #Mediocrity

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
-- Pope Paul VI

#Anger #Nests #Stones

What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.
-- Richard M. Nixon

#Men #Nests #Strange

Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.
-- Robert Downey, Jr.

#Nests #Sometimes

To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.
-- Robert Jordan

#Nests #Hornets

Where sin was hatched, let tears now wash the nest.
-- Robert Southwell

#Tears #Nests #Saint

There are certain things in life that you never forget. Things that dig deep, things that nest in the hadal zone.
-- Samantha Shannon

#Nests #Never Forget #Certain

There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.
-- Simon Wiesenthal

#Block #Nests #Littles

We are also rather concerned about our moorhen who went mad while we were in Italy and began to build a nest in a tree. ... she walks about in the tree, looking as uneasy yet persevering as a district visitor in a brothel.
-- Sylvia Townsend Warner

#Mad #Tree #Nests

Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude
-- T. D. Jakes

#Mother #Bird #Nests

Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?
-- Tad Williams

#Cities #World #Nests

When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.
-- Theodore L. Cuyler

#Self #Nests #Indolence

The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet's nest.
-- Titus Welliver

#Issues #Nests #Sticks

I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.
-- Tom Waits

#Crow #Nests #Saws

I love 30 Rock because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.
-- Tracy Morgan

#Rocks #Cuckoos #Nests

The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.
-- Victor Hugo

#Owl #Nests #Larks

If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.
-- Vito Fossella

#Kids #Eggs #Nests

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
-- William Cowper

#Eggs #Scorpions #Nests

Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?
-- William Dean Howells

#Art #Singing #Nests

I'm very much a homebody so once I have my home set up how I want it, that's my zen, my comfy little nest where I drink my wine and watch my Netflix.
-- Lissie

#Home #Wine #Nests

Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them or perhaps slept in their nests.
-- Ziya Tong

#Lice #May #Nests

Follow Through is elegant, sure footed, smart—a nest of sticks that won’t stay sticks—a nest of sticks that snowballs—scary and marvelous.
-- Lucy Corin

#Smart #Scary #Nests