Nest Quotes - page 5

His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg. (Hans Christian Andersen)
A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse. 'Tis good to keep a nest egg. Every little makes a mickle. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
Know, Nature, like the cuckoo, laughs at law, Placing her eggs in whatso nest she will. View quote
Alfred Austin
Leave the breast And then the nest And then regret you ever left. View quote
Kate Bush
Old proverbe says, That byrd ys not honest That fyleth hys owne nest. View quote
John Skelton
Do something about your long filthy hair / It looks like a rat's nest. View quote
Wesley Willis
Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest. View quote
John Keats
I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved. View quote
Gary Oldman
I've dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you'll see how nice I can be. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
225. What I hold fast to is not one proposition but a nest of propositions. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I'd kick the butt, without missing a step or crushing it, all the way to the corner, turn to see if they were looking in my direction, then pick it up and run to the little park behind the Santa Fe Depot where I kept my penny box of matches hidden in an old squirrel's nest. Then I'd light her up and suck up the hot, delicious smoke that made one a man and life barely tolerable. (Oscar Zeta Acosta)
You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair. View quote
Martin Luther
When a man is forced into early retirement, he is often being ‘given up for a younger man.' Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being ‘given up for a younger woman' is for a woman... Why do many men get more upset by retirement than women do from the empty nest -when their children leave home? When females retire from children, they can try a career; when a man retires from a career, his children are gone. View quote
Warren Farrell
She [Lee's mother] was muddled and mischievous as a chimney-jackdaw, she made her nest of rags and jewels, was happy in the sunlight, squawked loudly at danger, pried and was insatiably curious, forgot when to eat or ate all day, and sang when sunsets were red. She lived the easy laws of the hedgerow, loved the world and made no plans, had a quick holy eye for natural wonders and couldn't have kept a neat house for her life. View quote
Laurie Lee
After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until... View quote
Walter de la Mare
When I ate vanilla frosting straight from the can, I could feel God standing right nest to me like a real best friend, watching, and smiling, and wishing he had a mouth. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
The capture, taming, training and keeping of eagles is highly ritualized. Most of the birds, which have a life span of about 40 years, are caught when very young - either snatched from a nest or trapped in a baited net. View quote
Stephen Kinzer
I love '30 Rock' because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week. View quote
Tracy Morgan
I married a Florentine. We bought a house, had a family, and after a decade in our little Hollywood nest, we said, 'Let's go to Tuscany.' Tell God you can't make him laugh, but the next thing I know, my cooking show has become a hit, and they're asking for more seasons, and they want it to be in the States. View quote
Debi Mazar
The Universe will kick you out of your nest so you can fly. View quote
James Arthur Ray
A fish with a big mouth, like a catfish, they've been known to bite people's legs. Normally not because they're hungry, but because they're protecting a nest or something like that. (Jeremy Wade)
There's nothing I like better than going to my apartment, closing the door, cooking my little dinner for one and just tuning out. My apartment really is my haven. It's a nest where I go to heal. View quote
Tim Gunn
"I don't really know what happened. I just fell out of the nest." But the second Soren said those words he felt a weird queasiness. He almost knew. He just couldn't quite remember, but he almost knew how it had happened, and he felt a mixture of dread and shame creep through him. He felt something terrible deep in his gizzard. View quote
Kathryn Lasky
When beasts went together in companies, there was said to be a pride of lions; a lepe of leopards; an herd of harts, of bucks, and of all sorts of deer; a bevy of roes; a sloth of bears; a singular of boars; a sownder of wild swine; a dryft of tame swine; a route of wolves; a harras of horses; a rag of colts; a stud of mares; a pace of asses; a baren of mules, a team of oxen; a drove of kine; a flock of sheep; a tribe of goats; a sculk of foxes; a cete of badgers; a richess of martins; a fesynes of ferrets; a huske or a down of hares; a nest of rabbits; a clower of cats, and a kendel of young cats; a shrewdness of apes; and a labour of moles. View quote
Joseph Strutt
People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there's no one way. It's your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It's your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it. View quote
Bryan Batt