Nursery Quotes · Page 2

Lovely. Imprisoned in a nursery school dungeon.

— Rick Riordan

The world is no nursery.

— Sigmund Freud

I came across Mother Goose, so I turned her loose, she was screaming.

— Jethro Tull

I eat very simple food, really. A lot of it tending towards nursery food.

— Sophie Dahl

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

— Edmund Burke

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack go under the limbo stick.

— Chubby Checker

So the dubbed conceit Played nursery of cheat To clear the I of sleet.

— Allen Tate

[Gulliver was soon being read] "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

— John Gay

Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Sticks and stones may break me, but the words you said just tore my heart in two.

— Tracy Lawrence

Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's…

— Anonymous

It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific…

— Betty Friedan

Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have…

— Anne Sexton

If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.

— Tom Petty

I have always maintained that there is nothing wrong with nursery food now that we are grown up and can have a…

— Elizabeth Ray

Hickory dickory dock, I just want to be your clock. Just set me for a lifetime, and I'll wake you up every…

— Smokey Robinson

Hey there, Little Red Riding Hood, you sure are looking good. You're everything a big bad wolf could want.

— Sam the Sham

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

— George Berkeley

Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief,…

— Anonymous

Some parents expend great efforts to get their kids into the right nursery school or the right preschool, with the thought that…

— Michael Sandel

The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in…

— William H. Gass

Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture…

— Terence McKenna

And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and…

— Terry Pratchett

The nursery rhyme ends when a spider comes along and frightens Miss Muffet straight off her tuffet. I have wondered about what…

— Sloane Crosley

Nothing appeals to children more than justice, and they should be taught in the nursery to "play fair" in games, to respect…

— Emily Post

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost…

— Joely Richardson

At length, when I considered it, I realized that the best of my actions were small things. Picking flowers and cooking food…

— Sara Sheridan

As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a…

— Jim Butcher

“Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours; so, of…

— J.M. Barrie

Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much. He loved him…

— Margery Williams

I do think that this represents a kind of shift towards myth, a recovery of myth, largely through the popularity of writers…

— Marina Warner

“It is a big, airy room, the whole floor nearly, with windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore. It…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“It was as Frank said: the Sparrow Sisters Nursery had quite a reputation. Sally told Henry about the Nursery that was now…

— Ellen Herrick

Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

— Henry Fielding

You can huff and puff. But blow me down? I doubt it kid, or you get your ass whupped.

— Queen Latifah

I wonder if the nursery and the chamber of horrors are as far apart as people think?

— Tove Jansson

India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world

— Leo Tolstoy

The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.

— Bob Dylan

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

— Cotton Mather