Nests Quotes - Page 10

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

  Alice Munro

  Information, Magpies, Scrap

  Alice Munro (2010). “Too Much Happiness”, p.174, Random House

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• High high in the hills , high in a pine tree bed. She's tracing the wind with that old hand, counting the clouds with that old chant, Three geese in a flock one flew east one flew west one flew over the cuckoo's nest

  Ken Kesey

  Clouds, Hands, Wind

  Ken Kesey (2002). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.253, Penguin

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• If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil and its head bent low with patience. The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish, and thy voice pour down in golden streams breaking through the sky. Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my birds' nests, and thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forest groves.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Song, Morning, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali - Song Offerings”, p.19, Read Books Ltd

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• Catelyn had never liked this godswood. She had been born a Tully, at Riverrun far to the south, on the Red Fork of the Trident. The godswood there was a garden, bright and airy, where tall redwoods spread dappled shadows across tinkling streams, birds sang from hidden nests, and the air was spicy with the scent of flowers.

  George R. R. Martin

  Flower, Garden, Air

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.32, Bantam

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• 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

  Boat, Alligators, Come Up

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• 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.

  Vito Fossella

  Kids, Eggs, Retail

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• Little bitty bags are completely impractical - I like big slouchy bags because they have to be comfortable for my lovely wee Chihuahua Tequila, who comes everywhere with me. I'm devoted to him, now my kids have long since flown the nest.

  Britt Ekland

  Kids, Long, Lovely

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• One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls Man the only animal that soils its own nest. Every animal soils its nest with the products of its metabolism if unable to move away. Space technology gives us for the first time the freedom to leave our nest, at least for certain functions, in order not to soil it.

  Krafft Arnold Ehricke

  Moving, Men, Emotional

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• Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground. That the featherweight survive the massive, that this reversal of fortune takes place among us — that is what haunts me. I don’t know what it means.

  Mary Ruefle

  Mean, Years, Two

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.206, Wave Books

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• A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows,” he replied firmly. “Hawks, too, are the same, whether they are born in human nests or hawk ones. The nestlings must always be protected. Since you have chosen to protect these, I and mine will protect you.

  Tamora Pierce

  Crow, Shapes, May

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Trickster's Duet”, p.275, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.

  Arthur Golden

  Struggle, Worry, Effort

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.9, Random House

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

  Pope Francis

  Church, Mediocrity, Universal

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.51, A&C Black

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• 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?

  Ray Bradbury

  Needs, Shapes, Flesh

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
  The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
  And saw from elm tops, delicate as flower of grass,
  What we below could not see, Winter pass.

  Edward Thomas

  Flower, Winter, Land

  Edward Thomas (1997). “Poems”, p.16, Imperial War Museum

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• Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time..."

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Rain, Thinking, Wind

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• Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

  Harper Lee

  Wisdom, Heart, Garden

  FaceBook post by Harper Lee from Apr 21, 2015

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• You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places." "Enormous?" said Jace. "Did you just call me fat?" "It was an analogy." "I am not fat.

  Cassandra Clare

  Baby, Children, Taken

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature...whence we formerly took our flight.

  Romain Rolland

  Real, Eagles, Europe

  "Life of Ramakrishna". Book by Romain Rolland, 1929.

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• She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Easter, Spring, Long

  "The White Witch".

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• My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day's work for an honest day's pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mean, Rainy Day, Eggs

  "Cameron harks back to Thatcher over tax cuts" by Jenny Percival and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2008.

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• You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

  Buddy Hackett

  Growing Up, Boys, Years

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• I had paid for my folly and, as a reward, was invited to take part in the nest builder’s performance piece. The script was great. ‘When I bleat here, do you want me to just bleat or to really let go and “bleat, bleat”?’ I asked. ‘I feel like “bleat, bleating,” but if Mother/Destroyer is going to be crawling through the birth canal of concertina wire, I don’t want to steal focus, you know what I mean?

  David Sedaris

  Letting Go, Mother, Mean

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• In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

  Peter Mullan

  Thinking, Perfection, Cinema

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• Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Voice, Water, Owl

  Karen Joy Fowler (2004). “Sarah Canary”, Plume

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• I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'

  Sam Rockwell

  Parent, Cuckoos, Pieces

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