Nursery Quotes

174 Nursery quotes by 148 unique authors

. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity. — John Donne
I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal;… — Bobby McFerrin
I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song. — Tre Cool
In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on… — Henry Thomas Buckle
Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies. — Miguel Najdorf
Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies. — Jamie Murphy
A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men. — Charles Spurgeon
If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk. — Leon Botstein
We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and...… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Here is a little mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul… — Elizabeth Prentiss
Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re… — Mem Fox
There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally… — Robert Fortune
Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able to satisfy that… — Emile Zola
The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with… — H.G. Wells
Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary. — Michael Arditti
You're so narrow-minded! You live in the same village you grew up in, you run the family business, you're buying a nursery down the road...… — Sophie Kinsella
At length, when I considered it, I realized that the best of my actions were small things. Picking flowers and cooking food for my mother… — Sara Sheridan
On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up… — Sylvia Plath
Now, now," said Vale in a sickeningly sweet voice reminiscent of a nursery nanny. "I already gave him a drubbing for courting Emmie."Reynaud raised his… — Elizabeth Hoyt
As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a nursery tale?""I wouldn't… — Jim Butcher
The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three… — Joely Richardson
Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another. — John Cage
Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind. — Cotton Mather
A nursery rhyme shapes your bones and nerves, and it shapes your mind. They are powerful, nursery rhymes, and immensely old, and not toys, even… — Katherine Catmull
I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home. — Nina Jacobson

Who Wrote These Nursery Quotes

148 authors contributed a total of 174 Nursery Quotes, led by these top contributors: