Nests Quotes

242 quotes by 214 authors

A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for. — Amit Ray
You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight… — Ian Holloway
I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair. — Martin Luther
Because you see when a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there… — James M. Barrie
How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences) — Edmond Jabes
Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no… — Unknown Author
Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them. — Thomas Merton
Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. — Black Elk
Anyone who thinks humans are not capable of so fouling their own nest that the land and the waters can no longer be productive just… — Molly Ivins
And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun. — Khalil Gibran
Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God. — Unknown Author
Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude — T.D. Jakes
God has not made this world to be a nest for us, and if we try to make it such for ourselves, he plants thorns… — Charles Spurgeon
Follow ThroughÂ is elegant, sure footed, smartâ€”a nest of sticks that wonâ€™t stay sticksâ€”a nest of sticks that snowballsâ€”scary and marvelous. — Lucy Corin
A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh… — George Mercer Dawson
You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can… — Bubba Sparxxx
White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Head held high, she stepped toward the block and sank to her knees, and it was then that Akiva started to scream. His voice soared… — Laini Taylor
Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked up by birds… — Ann-Marie MacDonald
In exchange for his first taste of powdered milk, Pascal showed me a tree we could climb to find a bird's nest. After we handled… — Barbara Kingsolver

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