Nursery Quotes

Home - the nursery of the Infinite.

— William Ellery Channing

I wonder how many eggs are in the golden goose?

— Todd Rundgren

Life is the soul's nursery.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I used to work at a puppy nursery.

— Channing Tatum

Habit is the nursery of errors.

— Victor Hugo

Lovely. Imprisoned in a nursery school dungeon.

— Rick Riordan

“time she decorated the nursery in neutral”

— Danielle Steel

The world is no nursery.

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

— Queen Latifah

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

— Henry Fielding

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

— Tracy Lawrence

Mother Goose, she's on the skids. Sure ain't happy, neither are the kids.

— Neil Young

“Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.”

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Anonymous

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

— Alan Garner

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

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

— Garth Brooks

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

— John Cage

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he…

— Anonymous

Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do?

— Mark Steyn

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

Christmas, in fact, is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart:…

— Freya Stark

Excessive competitiveness, anxiety, hostility, suspiciousness, all originate in the nursery years. That is why, if we want a world of peace and…

— Joshua L. Liebman

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

And so when Mrs. Darling went back to the night-nursery to see if her husband was asleep, all the beds were occupied.…

— Anonymous

I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are…

— C. S. Lewis

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

— Ellen Herrick

“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

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

— Marina Warner

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

— Margery Williams

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

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

— Marina Warner

Here is a little mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

We must carry Jesus in our hearts to wherever He wants to go, and there are many places to which He may…

— Caryll Houselander