Nest Quotes
239 Nest quotes by 210 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
— Alice Munro
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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They had each other and there was a love between them that would withstand anything. Alina and I had always intuited, with no small wry…
— Karen Marie Moning
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For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.
— Mervyn Peake
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You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You…
— Rick Yancey
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If I can stop one heart from breaking…†Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If…
— Emily Dickinson
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I didn't say I would start a yard." "You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and you'll have a nest of horses outside…
— Maggie Stiefvater
Who Wrote These Nest Quotes
210 authors contributed a total of 239 Nest Quotes, led by these top contributors: