Nursery Quotes

174 Nursery quotes by 148 unique authors

And Sam Vimes thought: Why is Young Sam's nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is… — Terry Pratchett
...she felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition… — Virginia Woolf
You look green, immature. A young boy playing at business, dressing up in the manner in which he believes an actual grown-up would. Your viewpoint… — Chris Murray
Now it is you who everyone presumes is so fragile. Wounded. Scarred. Maybe they're right. Perhaps you are. A nursery rhyme comes into your head,… — Chris Bohjalian
I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you are not here… — Michael Arditti
Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs. — Karisma Kapoor
Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from… — Carl Sagan
Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Nursery schools and bars at 2 a.m. are the only places where it is completely normal if someone just spontaneously throws up on the floor...and… — Jim Gaffigan
India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world — Leo Tolstoy
All writing is by the grace of God. People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. In these sentences… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a… — Ray Bradbury
I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ... the roses get… — Wilkie Collins
Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect… — Murong Xuecun
The moment comes when the great nurse, death, takes a human, the child, by the hand and quietly says, "It is time to go home.… — Joshua L. Liebman
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. — George Santayana
It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince was a nursery… — Ron Carlson
There's something magical that happens when people eat from the same pot. The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn… — Michael Pollan
Or perhaps you notice a congregation of ladybugs on a rose stalk. Don't invoke the old nursery saying and ask them to fly away home.… — Eleanor Perenyi
Seohyun's so pure that if Seohyun wasn't a singer, she'd still be singing nursery rhymes. Seohyun watches TV until 2am in the morning. What she… — Choi Soo-young
There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it,… — Saul Bellow
I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I've always been geared towards wanting to act. I've stuck… — Archie Panjabi
Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery. — Vance Havner
A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be. — Adrian Rogers

Who Wrote These Nursery Quotes

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