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When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the music that numbs your teeth, or even the bottle of capless shampoo dribbling down the shower drain. They're upset because they've gone from supervisor of a child's life to a spectator. It's like being the vice president of the United States. -- Erma Bombeck
Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear. -- Earl Derr Biggers
By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest. -- Ashanti
The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. -- William Blake
Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg. -- Gresham Barrett
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses. -- Alan Perlis
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest. -- J. G. Holland
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. -- Edmund Waller
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. -- Pema Chodron
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows. -- Jeremy Taylor
I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest -- John Lithgow
The big nest was in Afghanistan, thats not quite cleared, then there are nests in the Philippines, there are nests in Indonesia, the Malaysians are clearing up their nests. -- Lee Kuan Yew
New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper. -- Griffin Dunne
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
Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them. -- John Bunyan
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing. -- Jay Inslee
A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally. -- George Mercer Dawson
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
Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way. -- Andrew Shue
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
Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Assemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam. Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes and it will shine - Calling me. For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair. A man who will Kiss the Flame. -- Jewel
Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude -- T. D. Jakes
Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds. -- Dejan Stojanovic
Dead birds don't fall out of their nests. -- Winston Churchill
Never look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last. -- Miguel de Cervantes
All the beasts in Howling Forest were safe in their caves, nests, and burrows. -- Michael Ende
If the inmates of Guantanamo want to make their nests in Uruguay, they can do it. -- Jose Mujica
Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God. -- Rumi
I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests. -- George W. Bush
And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl. -- John Milton
Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight. -- Isaac Watts
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 McConaughey
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
Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them. -- Thomas Merton
Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home. -- Glenda Millard
Fish are complex beings who choose mates, use words to communicate, build nests, cooperate with one another to find food, have long-term memories, and use tools. -- Sharon Gannon
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them or perhaps slept in their nests. -- Ziya Tong
Whores donâ??t live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds donâ??t build nests on a tree that doesnâ??t bear fruits. -- Chanakya
That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent." - Chinese Proverb -- Anonymous
Think of your woods and orchards without birds! Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beams As in an idiot's brain remembered words Hang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it. -- Simon Wiesenthal
Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw from elm tops, delicate as flower of grass, What we below could not see, Winter pass. -- Edward Thomas
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
Hatred gives you nothing, takes nothing from you, but destroys everything you have! Be careful of ideas of hatred that comes into your head. Destroy them before they make nests in your mind! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush? -- Tad Williams
Virtually all native cultures that have survived without fouling their nests have acknowledged that nature knows best, and have had the humility to ask the bears and wolves and ravens and redwoods for guidance. -- Janine Benyus
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

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