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• They (the consecrated) are men and woman who can awaken the world. Consecrated life is prophecy. God asks us to fly the nest and to be sent to the frontiers of the world, avoiding the temptation to 'domesticate' them. This is the most concrete way of imitating the Lord.

  Pope Francis

  Men, Temptation, World

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• The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Summer, Autumn, Far Away

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.19, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.

  Frank Bruno

  Running, Thinking, People

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• In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Dream, Dark, Mind

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• Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

  David Mamet

  Eagles, Ideas, Hollywood

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• Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Prayer, Home, Self

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.258, Macmillan

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• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson... I just saw 'The Shining' again the other day; he's so brilliant. He's such a brilliant actor, just unbelievable.

  Michael Biehn

  Shining, Cuckoos, Actors

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• The rhythm of life is give and take. It is necessary to put things back into the system. To not do that is to foul your own nest - to use up all the natural resources greedily.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Rhythm Of Life, Giving

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• The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.

  Carey Mulligan

  Mean, Trying, Bombs

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• All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spring, Feet, Rose

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.128, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• That night, like every other night since I’d met her, I curled Grace into my arms, listening to her parents’ muffled movements in the living room. They were like busy little brainless birds, fluttering in and out of their nest at all hours of the day or night, so involved in the pleasure of nest building that they hadn’t noticed that it had been empty for years.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Night, Years, Bird

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver”, p.167, Scholastic UK

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• Please nothing, she’s a vicious piranha. She looks all cute and cuddly, then she opens that mouth and lets loose so much venom she could double as a nest of scorpions. (Leo)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Cute, Scorpions, Looks

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Dark Side of the Moon”, p.79, Macmillan

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• My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

  Alice Munro

  Information, Magpies, Scrap

  Alice Munro (2010). “Too Much Happiness”, p.174, Random House

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• High high in the hills , high in a pine tree bed. She's tracing the wind with that old hand, counting the clouds with that old chant, Three geese in a flock one flew east one flew west one flew over the cuckoo's nest

  Ken Kesey

  Clouds, Hands, Wind

  Ken Kesey (2002). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.253, Penguin

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• If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil and its head bent low with patience. The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish, and thy voice pour down in golden streams breaking through the sky. Then thy words will take wing in songs from every one of my birds' nests, and thy melodies will break forth in flowers in all my forest groves.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Song, Morning, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali - Song Offerings”, p.19, Read Books Ltd

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• After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts - like a Chinese nest of boxes - oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front - in our ancestors, back and back until.

  Walter de La Mare

  Lying, Men, Chinese

  Walter de La Mare (2013). “The Return”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• When I ate vanilla frosting straight from the can, I could feel God standing right nest to me like a real best friend, watching, and smiling, and wishing he had a mouth.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Real, Wish, Mouths

  Augusten Burroughs (2008). “A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father”, p.78, Macmillan

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• This time is difficult. Wait for me. We will live it out vividly. Give me your small hand: we will rise and suffer, we will feel, we will rejoice. We are once more the pair who lived in bristling places, in harsh nests in the rock. This time is difficult. Wait for me with a basket, with a shovel, with your shoes and your clothes. Now we need each other, not only for the carnations' sake, not only to look for honey — we need our hands to wash with, to make fire.

  Pablo Neruda

  Eye, Fire, Small Hands

  "The Poetry of Pablo Neruda".

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• When the cold comes to New England it arrives in sheets of sleet and ice. In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow. Chipmunks and weasels come to nest in basements and barns; owls find their way into attics. At night,the dark is blue and bluer still, as sapphire of night.

  Alice Hoffman

  Husband, Dark, Night

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.260, Penguin Group

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• The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.

  Norbert Wiener

  Punishment, Tragedy, World

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.184, Da Capo Press

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• Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground. That the featherweight survive the massive, that this reversal of fortune takes place among us — that is what haunts me. I don’t know what it means.

  Mary Ruefle

  Mean, Years, Two

  Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.206, Wave Books

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• Little bitty bags are completely impractical - I like big slouchy bags because they have to be comfortable for my lovely wee Chihuahua Tequila, who comes everywhere with me. I'm devoted to him, now my kids have long since flown the nest.

  Britt Ekland

  Kids, Long, Lovely

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• If you're a retail investor, you have set aside some of your hard-earned money for investment or to create a nest egg, for your kids or family.

  Vito Fossella

  Kids, Eggs, Retail

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• Alligators and crocodiles are some of the most aggressive creatures on the planet - they'll take down a boat if you come up to their nest.

  Jack Hanna

  Boat, Alligators, Come Up

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• One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls Man the only animal that soils its own nest. Every animal soils its nest with the products of its metabolism if unable to move away. Space technology gives us for the first time the freedom to leave our nest, at least for certain functions, in order not to soil it.

  Krafft Arnold Ehricke

  Moving, Men, Emotional

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