Best Nursery Lines

174 Nursery quotes by 148 unique authors

Victor Vigny: It is like the old fairy tale. The boy saves the princess; they fall in love. He invents a flying machine - along… — Eoin Colfer
There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will… — James M. Barrie
The nursery rhyme ends when a spider comes along and frightens Miss Muffet straight off her tuffet. I have wondered about what kind of lesson… — Sloane Crosley
The kitchen was just as empty, even the refrigerator gone, the chairs, the table--the kitchen cabinets stood open, their bare shelves reminder her of a… — Cassandra Clare
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same. — Hannah Arendt
Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must… — C.S. Lewis
I am no warrior, but I am a ThunderClan cat. I stay in the nursery rather than hunt and fight because that is what I… — Erin Hunter
Mama, Mama, help me get home I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own. I found me a werewolf, a nasty old… — Lauren Oliver
As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme." "Bizarre and… — Shannon Hale
Lovely. Imprisoned in a nursery school dungeon. — Rick Riordan
Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much. He loved him so hard that… — Margery Williams
There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and the… — Oliver Sacks
Birchfall lapped at his wound "You're not very sympathetic for a medicine cat" "I'm here to HEAL you. If you want sympathy, go to the… — Erin Hunter
She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the… — Sarah Dessen
It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government… — Betty Friedan
the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the “nursery,”… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table. — C.S. Lewis
As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match… — Jung Chang
Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you… — Neil Gaiman
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. — Henry Fielding
Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and… — C.S. Lewis
Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories… — Ludwig von Mises

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