Nests Quotes

242 quotes by 216 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
Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their… — John Milton
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 number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr.… — Charles Darwin
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
A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the… — Barbara Holland
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
Never look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last. — Miguel de Cervantes
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
[S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand scale. There is… — Leonard Read
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

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