Nest Quotes

239 Nest quotes by 210 unique authors

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 builder’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 don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’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
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always… — Pema Chodron
I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing… — Joyce Kilmer
We speak much of the duty of making others happy. No day should pass, we say, on which we do not put a little cheer… — J.R. Miller
All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to… — Oscar Wilde
That night, like every other night since I’d met her, I curled Grace into my arms, listening to her parents’ muffled movements in the living… — Maggie Stiefvater
Please nothing, she’s a vicious piranha. She looks all cute and cuddly, then she opens that mouth and lets loose so much venom she could… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information. — Alice Munro
High high in the hills , high in a pine tree bed. She's tracing the wind with that old hand, counting the clouds with that… — Ken Kesey
After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks.… — Walter de La Mare
When I ate vanilla frosting straight from the can, I could feel God standing right nest to me like a real best friend, watching, and… — Augusten Burroughs
When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and… — Alice Hoffman
I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird… — Michelle Moran
I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart –… — Jean-Paul Sartre
They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big… — Jeanette Winterson
I sat up in bed. "What did he say?" Tyson groaned, still half asleep. He was lying facedown on the couch, his feet so far… — Rick Riordan

Who Wrote These Nest Quotes

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