nest quotes

How amiable are thy tabernacles,O L of hosts! 96 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the L: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. Yea, thesparrow hath found anhouse, and theswallowa nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars,O L of hosts, my King, and my God.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDPsalms 84:1^3.

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.Your still fowl, blinking at youwithout remark, mayall thewhilebesittingonone addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

- George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
  Felix Holt, ch.15.

   Sir, we are a nest of singing birds.

- Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
  Of Pembroke College, Oxford. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.1.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

- Ken Elton Kesey
   Title of novel, derived from a traditional rhyme.

It's like building a nest. First she thinks about it, then she begins to gather the materials, then she begins to put it together.

- (Mary) Flannery O'Connor
On her mother's two-month process of making a fruit cake. Quoted in Sally Fitzgerald (ed)  The Habit of Being (1979).

O tell her, Swallow that thy brood is flown: Say to her, I do but wanton in the South, But in the North long since my nest is made.

-Tennyson
  The Princess, pt.4, added song, stanza 6.

Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky! Dost thou despise the earth where cares abound? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground?

-William Wordsworth
  'To a Skylark', l.1^4 (published1827).