Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. Votes: 2
Arthur SchopenhauerGod gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. Votes: 2
Josiah Gilbert HollandWe must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity. Votes: 2
Pope FrancisI'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story. Votes: 2
Walter KirnYounger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg. Votes: 0
Gresham BarrettSaying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest. Votes: 0
Idries ShahThe music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest. Votes: 0
Rabindranath TagoreEnvironmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest. Votes: 0
Ronald ReaganThe batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest. Votes: 0
John ArlottLike a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest. Votes: 0
John KeatsSpeech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Votes: 0
George EliotI cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged. Votes: 0
George EliotThe heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest. Votes: 0
Theodore ParkerI like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection. Votes: 0
Henry MillerA dove will never nest in a burning tree, nor will love ever reside in unforgiving heart. Votes: 0
Jason VerseyEveryone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesn't become a bird overnight. Votes: 0
Lois EhlertLove is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water. Votes: 0
Federico Garcia LorcaThe lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. Votes: 0
Edmund WallerIt is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest. Votes: 0
Winston ChurchillI love 30 Rock because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week. Votes: 0
Tracy MorganWherever I fly from my own dear nest, I always come back, for home is the best. Votes: 0
Maud LindsayTo be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. Votes: 0
Pema ChodronI love '30 Rock' because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week. Votes: 0
Tracy MorganHe that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. Votes: 0
Jeremy TaylorFor what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty. Votes: 0
Mervyn PeakeNo insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. Votes: 0
Edith WhartonMy room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into. Votes: 0
Chloe SevignyI didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests. Votes: 0
George W. BushEach thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauI saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you. Votes: 3 Tom Waits
When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the music that numbs your teeth, or even the bottle of capless shampoo dribbling down the shower drain. They're upset because they've gone from supervisor of a child's life to a spectator. It's like being the vice president of the United States. Votes: 3 Erma Bombeck
So many parents these days are totally cool with their kids living on the couch the whole time. It's like a new thing with families. But you've got to leave the nest and get out there. Votes: 1 Blake Anderson