What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So this was a nest of radicals. She thought a hotbed of sedition would involve more gunpowder and secret handshakes, and less… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
You cannot find the centre Where we dance , where we play, Where life is still asleep Under the closed flower ,… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Who are we when we leave our families? Who do we become? What are we capable of? That's something that never leaves… — Naomi Watts Copy Share Image
Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Between the postwar fifties - domesticity, people happy to be alive after the Second World War, wanting to build a home, make… — Sally Potter Copy Share Image
Men who stand on any other foundation than the rock Christ Jesus are like birds that build in trees by the side… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls… — Krafft Arnold Ehricke Copy Share Image
Eyes are at rest, the stars are setting. Hushed are the stirrings of birds in their nests, Of monsters in the ocean.… — Rabia Basri Copy Share Image
A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
On the lawn next to the sidewalk a fire ant colony is swarming. The ants are pouring out of a mound nest,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
Sweet and low, sweet and low, Wind of the western sea, Low, low, breathe and blow, Wind of the western sea! Over… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl. — John Milton Copy Share Image
I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves. — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Never look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
the breed is more than the pasture. As you know, the cuckoo lays her eggs in any bird's nest; it may be… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
I bought the book, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I paid to have it made into a play and I played… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Birds are so much wiser than we! A robin builds a nest for robins. A seagull builds a nest for seagulls. They… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Speaking about symmetry, look out our window, and you may see a cardinal attacking its reflection in the window. The cardinal is… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
