Nests Quotes

242 Nests quotes by 214 unique authors

His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any… — Arthur Golden
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life. — Barbara Kingsolver
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. — Pema Chodron
Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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
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 Iâ€™d met her, I curled Grace into my arms, listening to her parentsâ€™ muffled movements in the living… — Maggie Stiefvater
Please nothing, sheâ€™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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