Quotes and Sayings About Nests
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Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.
-- Abraham Cowley -
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
-- Alan Perlis -
My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.
-- Alice Munro -
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.
-- Chloe Sevigny -
You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.
-- Cynthia Lewis -
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.
-- Edith Wharton -
How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)
-- Edmond Jabes -
I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.
-- Estella Warren -
As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time, ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.
-- Eva Herzigova -
I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.
-- George Eliot -
Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.
-- Gresham Barrett -
Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.
-- Ian Fleming -
Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.
-- Jack Hanna -
The Universe will kick you out of your nest so you can fly.
-- James Arthur Ray -
They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
-- John Bunyan -
When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking with good Baruch, great things for ourselves, but Providence by a particular or general calamity overturns our plans (Jer. 45:4,5), and all this to turn our hearts from the creature to God.
-- John Flavel -
It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.
-- John Heywood -
I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest
-- John Lithgow -
Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.
-- John Maeda -
And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.
-- John Milton -
You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.
-- Ken Blackwell -
The big nest was in Afghanistan, thats not quite cleared, then there are nests in the Philippines, there are nests in Indonesia, the Malaysians are clearing up their nests.
-- Lee Kuan Yew -
[S]tatism is but socialized dishonesty; it is feathering the nests of some with feathers coercively plucked from others - on the grand scale. There is no moral difference between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax or any other social program.
-- Leonard Read
