“ Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery. ”
- A. S. W. Rosenbach- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent. ”
- Donella Meadows- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I attended less than two years of Conservatory in Mexico City. ”
- Placido Domingo- Copy
- 2.1K
“ It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem. ”
- Jerry Adler- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies. ”
- Jamie Murphy- Copy
- 318
“ It's like having a cobra in the nursery with your grandchildren. You get rid of the cobra or you won't have any grandchildren. ”
- Theodore Hesburgh- Copy
- 3.9K
“ A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
- 560
“ The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future. ”
- John Mason Brown- Copy
- 105
“ Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 1.4K
“ A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery. ”
- Clare Boothe Luce- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. ”
- Brigid Brophy- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought. ”
- Ludwig von Mises- Copy
- 21
“ You see here before you the spectacle of a Plantagenet, who hath been carried from the nursery to the sanctuary; from the sanctuary to the direful prison; from the prison to the hand of the cruel tormentor; and from that hand to the wide wilderness, as I may truly call it, for so the world hath been to me. ”
- Perkin Warbeck- Copy
- 546
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