Nests Quotes

• A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.

  Amit Ray

  Inspiration, Wings, Bird

  Amit Ray, Banani Ray (2014). “World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird”, p.15, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• Everyone needs time to develop their dreams. An egg in the nest doesn't become a bird overnight.

  Lois Ehlert

  Dream, Eggs, Bird

  Lois Ehlert (2014). “The Scraps Book: Notes from a Colorful Life”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Learning, Bird, Intellectual

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• To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

  Pema Chodron

  Experience, Alive, Awake

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.93, Shambhala Publications

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• Wherever I fly from my own dear nest, I always come back, for home is the best.

  Maud Lindsay

  Home, Dear, My Own

  Maud Lindsay (2010). “Mother Stories”, p.22, Heart of Dixie Publishing

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• The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

  William Blake

  Best Friend, Friendship, Happiness

  William Blake (1975). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, p.18, Oxford Paperbacks

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• The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

  Joseph Joubert

  Ideas, Bird, Mind

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• God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

  J. G. Holland

  Success, God, Work

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• By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest.

  Ashanti

  Bird, Practicality

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• Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Bird, Safe, Thanks

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.215, Faber & Faber

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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

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Morning

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.242, Syracuse University Press

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• God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

  Jacques Deval

  Life, Funny Love, Men

  "A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations" by Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell, (p. 22), 1992.

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• The Universe will kick you out of your nest so you can fly.

  James Arthur Ray

  Risk, Kicks, Universe

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• Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp - everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.

  E. B. White

  Summer, Song, Eggs

  E. B. White (2015). “Charlotte’s Web and other classic animal stories: Charlotte’s Web, The Trumpet of the Swan, Stuart Little”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

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• The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.

  Charles Kettering

  Opportunity, Views, Imagination

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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

  Success, War, Bird

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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

  Love, Time, Retirement

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Complete in One Volume”, p.49

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• Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspiration, Positivity, Thinking

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• The nest may be constructed, so far as the sticks go, by the male bird; but only the hen can line it with moss and down!

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Bird, Moss, Males

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• Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Kissing, Love Is, Water

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• Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Greatness, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.26, Publishdrive

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• Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Regret, Years, Bird

  "The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha".

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• I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Children, Wings, Giving

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• Well I know the secret places, And the nests in hedge and tree; At what doors are friendly faces, In what hearts are thoughts of me.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Doors, Secret Places

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.334

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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

  Knowledge, Thinking, Eggs

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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