Nests Quotes

He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.

When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.

I'm excited for my little girls. When they left the nest, I was excited because they were winging their way into life.

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.

Think of your woods and orchards without birds! Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beams As in an idiot's brain remembered words Hang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams!

Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.

The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.

The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency... The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of the growing gap between the two, and of the rich fouling their own nests.

My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.

Dose it ever amaze and delight you that of all the places in the world - cold grassy nests under hedgerows, warm patches of sun on a carpet - the cat chooses to sit on your lap?

It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.

The empty nest is underrated.

With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.

Fish are complex beings who choose mates, use words to communicate, build nests, cooperate with one another to find food, have long-term memories, and use tools.

The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.

And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.

Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?

It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.

There are certain things in life that you never forget. Things that dig deep, things that nest in the hadal zone.

Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?

Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them or perhaps slept in their nests.

And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg.

Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.

I'm not a nest-egg person.

If the nest is truly empty, who owns all this junk?

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.

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.

So this was a nest of radicals. She thought a hotbed of sedition would involve more gunpowder and secret handshakes, and less shuffling of feet and passing the sugar.

God is the nest we build together.

I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.

I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.

I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.

Hatched in the same nest.

It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

I'm very much a homebody so once I have my home set up how I want it, that's my zen, my comfy little nest where I drink my wine and watch my Netflix.

Follow Through is elegant, sure footed, smart—a nest of sticks that won’t stay sticks—a nest of sticks that snowballs—scary and marvelous.

Make a room for love and it always comes. Make a nest for love and it always settles. Make a home for the beloved and the beloved with always find their way there

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.

Bogotá seemed a cruel towering place, like an eagles' nest now inhabited by vultures and their dying prey.

Hatred gives you nothing, takes nothing from you, but destroys everything you have! Be careful of ideas of hatred that comes into your head. Destroy them before they make nests in your mind!