Nests Quotes - Page 6

• My heart is like a singing bird
  Whose nest is in a water'd shoot;
  My heart is like an apple-tree
  Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.

  Christina Rossetti

  Heart, Apples, Water

  Christina Rossetti, “A Birthday”

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• The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Heart, Men, Wings

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• A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her nest. She never found her way out. No one noticed her panicked car-window appeals. She died on the backseat, with her legs in the air. Like a joke.

  Arundhati Roy

  Air, Car, Legs

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.296, Penguin Books India

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• The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. An just so does our God to us.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Mother, Teacher, Unknown Worlds

  Hannah Whitall Smith (1888). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”

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• You cannot find the centre Where we dance , where we play, Where life is still asleep Under the closed flower , Under the smooth shell Of eggs in the cupped nest That mock the faded blue Of your remoter heaven .

  R. S. Thomas

  Flower, Blue, Play

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• God is the nest we build together.

  Gene Wolfe

  Together

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• Shiva... is the only hunter that will ever catch the wild swan; The prey she will take last is the wild white swan of the beauty of things. Then she will be alone, pure destruction, achieved and supreme, Empty darkness under the death-tent wings. She will build a nest of the swan's bones and hatch a new brood, Hang new heavens with new birds, all be renewed.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Swans, Wings, White

  Robinson Jeffers, “Shiva”

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• Men who stand on any other foundation than the rock Christ Jesus are like birds that build in trees by the side of rivers. The bird sings in the branches, and the river sings below, but all the while the waters are undermining the soil about the roots, till, in some unsuspected hour, the tree falls with a crash into the stream; and then its nest is sunk, its home is gone, and the bird is a wanderer.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Jesus, Fall, Home

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.37

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• The shy little Mayflower weaves her nest, But the south wind sighs o'er the fragrant loam, And betrays the path to her woodland home.

  Sarah Helen Whitman

  Home, Wind, Shy

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• 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.

  Lucy Corin

  Smart, Scary, Sticks

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• I diagnosed my loneliness as premature empty nest syndrome.

  Kristen Schaal

  Funny, Loneliness, Humor

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• I'm not a nest-egg person.

  Dwight Howard

  Eggs, Persons

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

  T. D. Jakes

  Mother, Bird, Way

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• I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Believe, Gun, Cities

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• You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

  Rick Yancey

  Stars, Fall, Mean

  Rick Yancey (2011). “The Isle of Blood”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Robert Benchley

  Color, Bird, Lasts

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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

  Mariska Hargitay

  Mean, Eggs

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• I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.

  Julian Assange

  Feminism, Revolutionary, Hornets

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• Having a child is the polar opposite experience of the awards season experience. The awards-season experience requires you to be out in the community, in the heart of the community, at the nucleus of the film community in a really committed way for about a six-month period of time. Having a child requires you to nest, to be in your home, and to create and make your home and environment that is one that is potentially very welcoming and nurturing for a child.

  Mahershala Ali

  Children, Home, Heart

  "New spotlight, new baby for Oscars-bound Mahershala Ali". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 17, 2017.

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• You can lead a truly spiritual life while remaining a householder. You will be able to enjoy the bliss of the Self, but your mind has to be on God all the time. Then you can easily attain bliss. A mother bird will be thinking of the young ones in the nest, even when she is out looking for food. Similarly, you have to keep your mind on God, while engaged in all worldly actions. The important thing is to be completely dedicated to God or the Guru. Once you have that dedication, the goal will not be far away.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Relationship, Mother, Spiritual

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• Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours.

  Charles Dickens

  Dream, Animal, Bird

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.277

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• To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Ducks, Swans, Ugly Duckling

  Hans Christian Andersen (1867). “Hans Andersen's fairy tales, a new tr. by mrs. Paull”, p.33

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• When did the business community in America become so sensitive? ... that we have to treat like some type of rare exotic animal - don't startle them or they'll fly away!...we need to soothe them so they can nest here and lay their magic eggs full of jobs! - WHICH NEVER HATCH BY THE WAY!!!

  Bill Maher

  Jobs, Animal, Eggs

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• White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Swans, Sky, Cities

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1912). “The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.1218, Library of Alexandria

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• It's not the fledgling birds that are thrown out of the nest by their parents and made to fly; it's the parents who are made to get the hell out of cozy family nest by their teenage offspring. It's we who are made to be independent of them, crash-landing if we don't manage it.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Teenage, Independent, Bird

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