“ 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- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married. ”
- Wall Street Journal- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth; to some good angel leave the rest. For Time will teach thee soon the truth: there are no birds in last year's nest! ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
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“ God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. ”
- J. G. Holland- Copy
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“ 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 into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
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“ Writers are vaccuum cleaners who suck up other people's lives and weave them into stories like a sparrow builds a nest from scraps. ”
- Garrison Keillor- Copy
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“ As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires. ”
- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad- Copy
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“ Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. ”
- Isaac Watts- Copy
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“ Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Never look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
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“ Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them. ”
- John Bunyan- Copy
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“ The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town he lets wither a time and die. ”
- John Steinbeck- Copy
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“ We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hid A million buds but stay their blossoming And trustful birds have built their nests amid The shuddering boughs, and only wait to sing Till one soft shower from the south shall bid And hither tempt the pilgrim steps of Spring. ”
- Robert Bridges- Copy
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“ To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. ”
- John Burroughs- Copy
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“ There is a real opportunity right now as parents and grandparents to come up with a plan that leaves our kids with something better than we have; that is, an opportunity to own, build, and grow a nest egg of their own. ”
- Norm Coleman- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ The Leesburg Garden Club is a 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. ”
- Lyndon LaRouche- Copy
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