Nursery Quotes · Page 3

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

— George Santayana

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

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

— Bob Dylan

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

— Cotton Mather

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Ice Cube

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

— Neil Young

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or…

— Ray Bradbury

I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like, but I've always dreamed about decorating my…

— Rebecca Romijn

I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I've always been geared towards wanting to…

— Archie Panjabi

The comic book [is] the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of…

— John Mason Brown

My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it…

— Erma Bombeck

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.

— Don McLean

I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.

— Michael Heseltine

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need…

— Adrian Rogers

Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying…

— Eoin Colfer

Perhaps God does with His heavenly garden as we do with our own. He may chiefly stock it from nurseries, and select…

— Thomas Guthrie

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the…

— Phyllis McGinley

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

— Frances Wright

The moment comes when the great nurse, death, takes a human, the child, by the hand and quietly says, "It is time…

— Joshua L. Liebman

The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be…

— Plato

Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will…

— Peter Drucker

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

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

My dad was an actor, and my older sister is an actress, and so I very much remember thinking, "Well, of course…

— Kate Winslet

“Roses climbed the shed, entwined with dark purple clematis, leaves as glossy as satin. There were no thorns. Patience's cupboard was overflowing…

— Ellen Herrick

You are lovable. Can you show me any baby in any nursery who isn't priceless? No. There's no such thing as a…

— Martha Beck

Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered…

— C. S. Lewis

In 1967, in DeKalb v. DeSpain, a court (255 F.Supp. 655. N.D.Ill. 1966.) took a 4-line nursery rhyme used by a K-5…

— David Barton

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

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

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

— Henry Fielding

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

— Queen Latifah

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

— Leo Tolstoy

I wonder if the nursery and the chamber of horrors are as far apart as people think?

— Tove Jansson

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

— Tracy Lawrence

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Sophie Dahl

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

— Jethro Tull