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

  Rumi

  Heart, Bird, Thrones

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• Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.

  Gresham Barrett

  Retirement, Should Have, Eggs

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• Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Temptation, Overcoming

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• Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.

  Andrew Shue

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.

  Glenda Millard

  Book, Home, Needs

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• 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

  John Lithgow

  Earth, Foul, Be Careful

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• You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.

  Audre Lorde

  Fighting, Blow, Eggs

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.31, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.

  Barbara Holland

  Writing, Cat, Animal

  Barbara Holland (1994). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, Ivy Books

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

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  People, Laughing, Matter

  "Michelle Pfeiffer Opens Up About Younger Men, Love, and Family". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. May 3, 2012.

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• I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

  Gary Oldman

  Sister, Mother, Children

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• Whores don’t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don’t build nests on a tree that doesn’t bear fruits.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Wise, Men

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• Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a Spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld.

  Henry Williamson

  Friends, Father, Flower

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• You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.

  Bubba Sparxxx

  Movie, Thinking, People

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• 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.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Philippines, Indonesia, Bigs

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2002.

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• Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Assemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam. Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes and it will shine - Calling me. For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair. A man who will Kiss the Flame.

  Jewel

  Song, Love You, Eye

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

  Chloe Sevigny

  Real, Littles, Way

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• But how ridiculous that I should bereft simply because I couldn’t spend hours in my world of make-believe! Wasn’t the reality of my life interesting enough? This is surely the time to let go of grievances, I told myself sternly. What good does it do to dwell on them? Brooding on a nest of grudges will only hatch more grief.

  Liza Dalby

  Letting Go, Grief, Believe

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• 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.

  James M. Barrie

  Baby, Laughing, Firsts

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.128, 谷月社

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• The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Bible, Home, Son

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• I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place.

  Bell Hooks

  Girl, Travel, Moving

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• 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.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Nice, Heart, Sparrows

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1946). “The flies (Les mouches): and, In camera (Huit clos)”

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

  Alan Perlis

  Ballpoint Pens, Parentheses, Programmers

  "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs". Textbook by Gerald Jay Sussman and Hal Abelson, 2nd edition, 1996.

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• You know, Jesse Jackson is just trying to stir up a hornet's nest.

  Ken Blackwell

  Trying, Hornets, Knows

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• We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

  John Lennon

  Music, Our Generation, Nwo

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• He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.41

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