Nest Quotes
239 quotes by 213 authors
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Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
— William Blake
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My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my…
— Jimmy Carter
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We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out of conscious touch with the…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all…
— George Eliot
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We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against…
— George S. Patton
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The world is a nest of crows; some caw in praise; some caw in derision. But men should be above the reach of praise and…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.
— Walt Whitman
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Let it not be death but completeness. Let love melt into memory and pain into songs. Let the flight through the sky end in the…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see…
— John Bunyan
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Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him…
— A. E. Housman
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Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.
— Ronald Reagan
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What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping…
— Frances Moore Lappé
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Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should…
— Martin Luther
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What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.
— Richard M. Nixon
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I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I…
— Robert Pattinson
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Observers in the full enjoyment of their bodily senses pity me, but it is because they do not see the golden chamber in my life…
— Helen Keller
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Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the…
— Robinson Jeffers
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Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not…
— Romain Rolland
Who Wrote These Nest Quotes
213 authors contributed a total of 239 Nest Quotes, led by these top contributors: