Nest Quotes

239 Nest quotes by 210 unique authors

My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into. — Chloe Sevigny
Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of… — Andrew Shue
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. — Jeremy Taylor
I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it.… — Tom Waits
You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple… — Chuck Palahniuk
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter...… — John Burroughs
A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest… — Khalil Gibran
Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the… — Ray Bradbury
The owl goes not into the nest of the lark. — Victor Hugo
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. — Pema Chodron
You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds… — Cassandra Clare
she had long accepted the fact that happiness is like swallows in Spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not.… — Elizabeth Goudge
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You… — Graham Greene
Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of… — Karen Joy Fowler
I had paid for my folly and, as a reward, was invited to take part in the nest builderâ€™s performance piece. The script was great.… — David Sedaris
When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to… — Robert Frost
Mockingbirds donâ€™t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They donâ€™t eat up peopleâ€™s gardens, donâ€™t nest in corncribs, they donâ€™t do… — Harper Lee
A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her nest.… — Arundhati Roy
Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix… — Oscar Wilde
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no… — Toni Morrison

Who Wrote These Nest Quotes

210 authors contributed a total of 239 Nest Quotes, led by these top contributors: