Nursery Quotes · Page 2

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Towns were the nursery of freedom.

— Lord Acton

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball.

— Ice Cube

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

— Cotton Mather

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

— Bob Dylan

Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.

— Miguel Najdorf

My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work.

— Sarah Waters

I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.

— Tre Cool

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

— Plato

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery

— Clare Boothe Luce

Team-mates will ask how the baby has done on his first day in nursery and that kind of thing, which is nice.

— Paul Mullin

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

— George Berkeley

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

— C. S. Lewis

Cinderella said to snow white, how does love get so off course? All I wanted was a white knight with a good…

— Faith Hill

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

— Vivienne Westwood

Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an…

— Vance Havner

Birchfall lapped at his wound "You're not very sympathetic for a medicine cat" "I'm here to HEAL you. If you want sympathy,…

— Erin Hunter

Boys like Peter are afraid of alot of things, like nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra, but they're not afraid of wolves.

— Anonymous

the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated…

— Anonymous

Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots…

— Richey Edwards

It is the home which produces the nursery stock of new generations. I hope that you mothers will realize that when all…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

If you happen to read fairy tales, you will observe that one idea runs from one end of them to the other--the…

— Anonymous

The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on…

— Louise Nurding

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as…

— Anonymous

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

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in…

— James Fenton

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

The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale-as the…

— Joseph Campbell

“Sorrel always thought herself happy in the little village by the sea. She was content among her flowers and specimen trees, the…

— Ellen Herrick

I did a series of classes in psychology (at the institute), .. The students that came to that class had children. And…

— Dorothy Nolte

There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery…

— Oliver Sacks

I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good,…

— Francis Galton

I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you…

— Michael Arditti

Reggae is a message of consolation; a message of salvation. The youth are going to the school and they have to listen…

— Toots Hibbert

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

— Hannah Arendt

All the kids from my nursery school are still in touch.

— Anne Wojcicki

Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history

— Amos Bronson Alcott

It seems like some of my favorite songs have almost like a nursery rhyme vibe to them.

— Ruston Kelly

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

— John Grisham

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

— Allen Tate