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• Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

  Black Elk

  Native American, Circles, Bird

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Regret, Years, Bird

  "The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha".

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Bird, Should, Abyss

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.137, Penguin

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• Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Sometimes

  "The Complete Robert Downey Jr". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 16, 2012.

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• Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble histories, faithful sayings, treasure houses of precious and restful thoughts, which care cannot disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take away from us.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Pain, Memories

  John Ruskin “The Works of John Ruskin”

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• When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

  Bill Moyers

  Education, Home, Learning

  Bill D. Moyers (1989). “A World of Ideas: Conversations with Thoughtful Men and Women about American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Future”, Doubleday Books

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• I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.

  Tennessee Williams

  Mean, Home, Thinking

  Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.116, New Directions Publishing

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• 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.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Retirement, Children

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• Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Kissing, Love Is, Water

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• If I can stop one heart from breaking…” Emily Dickinson If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sympathy, Pain, Kindness

  "If I can stop one heart from breaking" l. 1 (ca. 1865)

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• How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.

  John Muir

  Nature, Men, Space

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.321, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.

  Edward Lear

  Men, Two, Justice

  A Book of Nonsense (1846)

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• What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

  Jay Inslee

  Rivers, Bird, Tree

  "House Approves Revised Endangered Species Act". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. September 30, 2005.

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• The bird loves her nest.

  George Herbert

  Bird, Love Bird

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.294

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• What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it is the spontaneous flowing of the thought. Shakespeare made his Hamlet as a bird weaves its nest.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Effort, Bird, Cost

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.163, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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

  Edmund Waller

  Lying, Humble, Larks

  Edmund Waller, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller: Collated with the Best Editions”

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

  George Eliot

  Memories, Littles, Affection

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.28

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• Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspiration, Positivity, Thinking

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• Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Greatness, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.26, Publishdrive

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• Well I know the secret places, And the nests in hedge and tree; At what doors are friendly faces, In what hearts are thoughts of me.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Doors, Secret Places

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.334

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• Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

  Earl Derr Biggers

  Cat, Bravery, Pet

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• I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Children, Wings, Giving

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• I have seen salmon swimming upstream to spawn even with their eyes pecked out. Even as they are dying, as their flesh is falling away from their spines, I have seen salmon fighting to protect their nests. I have seen them push up creeks so small that they rammed themselves across the gravel. I have seen them swim upstream with huge chunks bitten out of their bodies by bears. Salmon are incredibly driven to spawn. They will not give up. This gives me hope.

  Kathleen Moore

  Giving Up, Fall, Eye

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• The soul which has come into intimate contact with God in the silence of the prayer chamber is never out of conscious touch with the Father; the heart is always going out to Him in loving communion, and the moment the mind is released from the task upon which it is engaged, it returns as naturally to God as the bird does to its nest.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Father, Heart

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.43, CCEL

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

  Pope Paul VI

  Anger, Stones, Wasps

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