Nests Quotes
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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.
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Where in venerable rows Widely waving oaks enclose The moat of yonder antique hall, Swarm the rooks with clamorous call; And, to the toils of nature true, Wreath their capacious nests anew.
thomas warton— Thomas Warton, Ode X; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 677.
And Jesus saith unto him,The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Bible (NewTestament)— St Matthew 8:20.
Beneath the crisp and wintry carpet hidA million buds but stay their blossomingAnd trustful birds have built their nests amidThe shuddering boughs, and only wait to singTill one soft shower from the south shall bidAnd hither tempt the pilgrim steps of Spring.
robert bridges— The Growth of Love, Sonnet 6 (1876).
Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
Miguel de Cervantes— Ch. 74. (Part II (1615))
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— Book of Nonsense, Limerick 1 (1846).
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
alan perlis— Quoted in The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Birds in their little nests agree;And 'tis a shameful sight,When children of one familyFall out, and chide, and fight.
Isaac Watts— Song 17: "Love between Brothers and Sisters".
Building nests in Fame's great temple, As in spouts the swallows build.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nuremberg, Stanza 16.
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. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.
j. m. barrie— Ch. 17 (Peter & Wendy (1911))
Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.
Robert Browning— The Pied Piper of Hamelin, line 10 (1842).
The Sestos and Abydos of her breasts Not of two lovers, but two loves the nests.
john donne— No. 18, Love's Progress, line 61.
How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! ... In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents, or piled stone we all dwell in a house of one room the world with the firmament for its roof and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.
john muir— 18 July 1890, page 321
It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes and roofs of villages, on woodland crests and their aerial neighborhoods of nests deserted, on the curtained window-panes of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes and harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Harvest Moon.
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— Edward Lear, There Was an Old Man with a Beard.
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
— 8:20 (KJV).
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, VIII. 20.
The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
— Jesus, The Gospel of Matthew, 8:20 (KJV).
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. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.
j. m. barrie— J. M. Barrie, in Peter & Wendy (1911), Ch. 17.
When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.
— Theodore L. Cuyler in:The Church Times, Volumes 8-10, The Diocese, 1897, p.189
Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.
Miguel de Cervantes— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Part II, Chapter LXXIV.
Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food Whose scent hath lur'd them o'er the summer flood; And those that under Araby's soft sun Build their high nests of budding cinnamon.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh, The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 70.
The song-birds leave us at the summer's close, Only the empty nests are left behind. And pipings of the quail among the sheaves.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Harvest Moon, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 652.
Yeh, we've been locked down here for the last ten hours. Murder holes up there. Machine gun nests, you gotta clear 'em out, boy.
— Who: Squirrel soldier
— Note: The character is seen with a bullet hole in his helmet when Conker looks up from ducking to see him.
