Nest Quotes

239 quotes by 213 authors

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
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. — William Blake
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
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
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
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
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
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
This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat. — Walt Whitman
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
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
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
Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest. — Ronald Reagan
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 LappÃ©
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
What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest. — Richard M. Nixon
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
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
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
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

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