Nursery Quotes - Page 6

• Baker, baker, can you explain, if truly his heart was made of icing.

  Tori Amos

  Heart, Games, Bakers

  Song: Baker, Baker, 1994

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• As a designer, everything is always about aesthetics mixed in with functionality and having that visual appeal. But you learn fast as a new parent with an infant that if it’s not deeply practical as well, then forget about it. Style wise, I wanted to design items that would work well in any nursery - regardless of gender.

  Nate Berkus

  Wise, Design, Parent

  "Nate Berkus Jokes Daughter Poppy Knows What She Wants When It Comes to Fashion: 'She's Incredibly Opinionated'". Interview with Anya Leon, people.com. January 6, 2017.

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• I refuse absolutely to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. ... I obdurately insist on believing that some men are my equals.

  Brigid Brophy

  Sex, Believe, Men

  Brigid Brophy (1968). “The Burglar: Play”

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• Perhaps God does with His heavenly garden as we do with our own. He may chiefly stock it from nurseries, and select for transplanting what is yet in its young and tender age--flowers before they have bloomed and trees ere they begin to bear.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Flower, Garden, Tree

  Thomas Guthrie (1874). “The Gospel in Ezekiel: A Series of Discourses”, p.269

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• Fee fi foe fum, she's scratching on my back. Oh, here she comes.

  Eazy-E

  Games, Fees, Foe

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• Hey there, Little Red Riding Hood, you sure are looking good. You're everything a big bad wolf could want.

  Sam the Sham

  Games, Hey, Want

  "Song: "Li'l Red Riding Hood"". 1966.

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• Hickory dickory dock, I just want to be your clock. Just set me for a lifetime, and I'll wake you up every morning.

  Smokey Robinson

  Morning, Games, Wakes You

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• Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball.

  Ice Cube

  Wall, Drinking, Eight

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• I am the pedophiles dream, a messianic Peter Pan.

  Marilyn Manson

  Dream, Games, Peter

  Song: Snake Eyes and Sissies

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• I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting: caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs, nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires, terrors. ... That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before and my answer was, 'To give terror a face.' But it's more than that. I paint because I can't help it.

  Paula Rego

  Song, Art, Children

  John McEwen, Paula Rego (1992). “Paula Rego”

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• When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know what I know, do I know what I don't know, do I know what I don't know I don't know. It becomes a strange, Lewis Carroll - like nursery rhyme.

  Errol Morris

  Crazy, Talking, Levels

  "Errol Morris, On Donald Rumsfeld's Inability to Separate Fact from Fantasy". Interview with Calum Marsh, www.esquire.com. April 3, 2014.

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• If that mockingbird don't sing and that ring don't shine, I'm a break that birdie's neck.

  Eminem

  Games, Shining, Necks

  Song: Mockingbird, Album: Encore, 2004

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• If you stretch your imagination, I'll tell you all a tale, about a time when everything wasn't up for sale.

  Tom Petty

  Games, Imagination, Tales

  Song: Money Becomes King, Album: The Last DJ

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• It's midnight Cinderella, but don't worry none. Cause I'm Peter the Pumpkin Eater and the party's just begun.

  Garth Brooks

  Party, Games, Worry

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• Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack go under the limbo stick.

  Chubby Checker

  Games, Nimble, Sticks

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• Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.

  Don McLean

  Fire, Games, Devil

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• Mother Goose is on the loose, stealing lines from Lenny Bruce.

  Phil Ochs

  Mother, Games, Lines

  Song: The Harder They Fall

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• Mother Goose, she's on the skids. Sure ain't happy, neither are the kids.

  Neil Young

  Mother, Kids, Games

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• Now listen little pigs, I'm gonna let you off the hook if you open the door.

  Sam the Sham

  Pigs, Doors, Games

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• Sticks and stones may break bones, but the Gat will kill you quicker.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Games, May, Stones

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• Sticks and stones may break me, but the words you said just tore my heart in two.

  Tracy Lawrence

  Heart, Games, Two

  Song: Sticks and Stones

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• That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.

  Smokey Robinson

  Dog, Nice, Love Is

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• The drinking bone is connected to the party bone, the party bone is connected to the staying out all night long.

  Tracy Byrd

  Party, Drinking, Night

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• The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.

  Bob Dylan

  Games, Sound, Desolation

  Song: Desolation Row, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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• Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Lakes, Swans, Ugly Duckling

  Song: Thing Called Love, Album: Nick of Time

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