Nursery Quotes · Page 2

Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak…

— Murong Xuecun

Husbands are things that wives have to get used to putting up with. And with whom they breakfast with and sup with.…

— Ogden Nash

As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is,…

— Anonymous

The business of education has lay[ed] the foundations for nurseries of wise and good men, to adapt our modes of teaching to…

— Benjamin Rush

I used to work at a puppy nursery.

— Channing Tatum

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

— Plato

Lovely. Imprisoned in a nursery school dungeon.

— Rick Riordan

... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that…

— Frances Wright

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

— John Gay

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

— John Grisham

The other thing about the Nights is that it is quite racist. One parentheses is that I think this is one of…

— Marina Warner

There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's…

— Michael Pollan

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

— Leo Tolstoy

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

Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I don't know what started me, I just wrote poetry from the time was quite small. I guess I liked nursery rhymes…

— Sylvia Plath

Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes.

— James Wright

We're doing a partial green nursery and trying as hard as we can to do as much organic stuff for our nursery…

— Lisa Ling

I was in total shock. I work so close [to home] that I figured I'd return to work and the baby nurse…

— Ivanka Trump

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

— George Berkeley

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

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

— Brigid Brophy

I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got…

— Bat for Lashes

There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a…

— Mark Twain

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

— Drew Magary