Nursery Quotes · Page 3

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

— Edmund Burke

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack go under the limbo stick.

— Chubby Checker

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

— John Gay

I came across Mother Goose, so I turned her loose, she was screaming.

— Jethro Tull

I eat very simple food, really. A lot of it tending towards nursery food.

— Sophie Dahl

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

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

Now sticks 'n' stones'll break ya bones, a little tokin' never hurt no one. Let's toke, toke, toke about it.

— Nikola Tesla

What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery,…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Seohyun's so pure that if Seohyun wasn't a singer, she'd still be singing nursery rhymes. Seohyun watches TV until 2am in the…

— Choi Soo-young

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

That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.

— Smokey Robinson

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

— Brigid Brophy

“It is the earliest dream that I can remember, earlier than the witch at the corner of the nursery passage, this dream…

— Graham Greene

The kitchen was just as empty, even the refrigerator gone, the chairs, the table--the kitchen cabinets stood open, their bare shelves reminder…

— Cassandra Clare

I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ...…

— Wilkie Collins

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

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

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

— Winston Churchill

At length, when I considered it, I realized that the best of my actions were small things. Picking flowers and cooking food…

— Sara Sheridan

As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a…

— Jim Butcher

On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery…

— Sylvia Plath

“Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours; so, of…

— J.M. Barrie

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

— Anonymous

“The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we…

— Jay Woodman

Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able…

— Emile Zola

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

— Murong Xuecun

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

— Drew Magary

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

— Michael Arditti

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

— Saul Gorn

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

— The Notorious B.I.G

Cinderella hoein' for the fellas, Mr. Roger was getting kind of jealous.

— Ice Cube

Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

— George Santayana

Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.

— John Donne