Nursery Quotes · Page 4

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

— Otto Von Bismarck

Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.

— Karisma Kapoor

Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown

— Anonymous

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

— Jean Cocteau

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.

— Jamie Murphy

You'll paint some nursery and the kid will want to sleep in a drawer.

— Drew Magary

Sticks and stones may break bones, but the Gat will kill you quicker.

— The Notorious B.I.G

Teaching is a personal matter of the nursery of the mind and should not be on public display.

— Saul Gorn

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

— Anonymous

My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.

— Mika

I refuse absolutely to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. ... I obdurately insist on believing that some men are…

— Brigid Brophy

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need…

— Adrian Rogers

I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.

— Michael Heseltine

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.

— Don McLean

The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become…

— Samuel Smiles

The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story…

— Rebecca West

I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes,…

— Paula Rego

It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince…

— Ron Carlson

My eyes opened, and the first thing I thought of when I could put thoughts together was I want to be in…

— Joan Rivers

I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin.…

— Bobby McFerrin

I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I been happier every year since I became a man.…

— Winston Churchill

He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for…

— Ray Bradbury

But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and…

— Neil Gaiman

How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery…

— Shannon Hale

In 1967, in DeKalb v. DeSpain, a court (255 F.Supp. 655. N.D.Ill. 1966.) took a 4-line nursery rhyme used by a K-5…

— David Barton

Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered…

— C. S. Lewis

You are lovable. Can you show me any baby in any nursery who isn't priceless? No. There's no such thing as a…

— Martha Beck

“Roses climbed the shed, entwined with dark purple clematis, leaves as glossy as satin. There were no thorns. Patience's cupboard was overflowing…

— Ellen Herrick

My dad was an actor, and my older sister is an actress, and so I very much remember thinking, "Well, of course…

— Kate Winslet

As I searched the atlas for somewhere to run to, Hugh made a case for his old stomping grounds. His first suggestion…

— David Sedaris

Many white-collar workers are lucky enough to have creative-class jobs that are satisfying, which is great as long as you're still able…

— Katrina Onstad

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning…

— Saul Bellow

Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary.

— Michael Arditti

Fee fi foe fum, she's scratching on my back. Oh, here she comes.

— Eazy-E

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.

— George Santayana

If that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine, I'm a break that birdie's neck.

— Eminem

My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest…

— Alan Garner

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice…

— Anonymous

Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another.

— John Cage

It's midnight Cinderella, but don't worry none. Cause I'm Peter the Pumpkin Eater and the party's just begun.

— Garth Brooks