Nests Quotations

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.

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

The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.

The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet's nest.

If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.

We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

I 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.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.

People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

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.

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest.

Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.

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

The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

I'm not a nest-egg person.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hatched in the same nest.

The bird loves her nest.

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.

I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.

Who are we when we leave our families? Who do we become? What are we capable of? That's something that never leaves us. It begins at that point in your life when you leave the nest, and I don't think we stop wanting to explore that question.

See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys: No fears of future want molest The downy quiet of their nest.

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

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

Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

If I talk to a woman for more than five minutes I can tell you exactly whether she's an Aidan girl or a Mr. Big girl. Aidan girls are more interested in nurturing relationships and building a nest while Mr. Big girls are more about show and having fun.

There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.

The empty nest is underrated.

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

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

The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest.

When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.

It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.

It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.

Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves.

God is the nest we build together.

Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.

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

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.

Then they'd [Nazi] make movies against England, you know, in the same way, to help, you know, feather their nest for what they - their aggressions.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.

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?

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

Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks who more often than not were ignored, mocked, or viciously persecuted by society and its institutions.

Birds which are the same color as the foliage in which they nest are less likely to be disturbed by other birds who want to drop in and chat, and therefore last longer.

I love 30 Rock because Tina Fey allows me to fly over the cuckoo nest once a week.

A jealous wife is like a hornets' nest in your mattress

To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.

Where sin was hatched, let tears now wash the nest.

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

At a very early stage of the novel's development I get this urge to collect bits of straw and fluff, and to eat pebbles. Nobody will ever discover how clearly a bird visualizes, or if it visualizes at all, the future nest and the eggs in it.

He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.

The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

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

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

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

And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun.

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

Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.

Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude

Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God.

Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.

What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.

No matter. The dead bird does not leave the nest.

Dead birds don't fall out of their nests.

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