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  • A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. -- Jean Genet
  • I'm pretty earthy; I nursed forever because I liked it and my kids liked it, but at the same time I'm very laissez-faire about stuff like bedtimes and food. -- Ana Gasteyer
  • I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. -- Mother Jones
  • I grew up in a home where animals were ever-present and often dominated our lives. There were always horses, dogs, and cats, as well as a revolving infirmary of injured wildlife being nursed by my sister the aspiring vet. -- Julia Glass
  • In the period where I had to live the life of a citizen - a life where, like everybody else, I did tons of laundry and cleaned toilet bowls, changed hundreds of diapers and nursed children - I learned a lot. -- Patti Smith
  • Our parents deserve our honor and respect for giving us life itself. Beyond this they almost always made countless sacrifices as they cared for and nurtured us through our infancy and childhood, provided us with the necessities of life, and nursed us through physical illnesses and the emotional stresses of growing up. -- Ezra Taft Benson
  • I think she always nursed a small mad hope. -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother. -- William Gurnall
  • Up through and including Lincoln, American politicians nursed a fantasy of repatriating blacks to Africa. -- Ned Sublette
  • The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life. -- Edward Gibbon
  • When Callas carried a grudge, she planted it, nursed it, fostered it, watered it and watched it grow to sequoia size. -- Harold C. Schonberg
  • O'er the rugged mountain's brow Clara threw the twins she nursed, And remarked,'I wonder now Which will reach the bottom first? -- Harry Graham
  • A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class -- Charles Bukowski
  • God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I have my wish. -- William Shakespeare
  • We picked their cotton. We cooked their food. We nursed their babies. Now we can run their cities. We can run their states. We will run the country. -- Jesse Jackson
  • Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech. -- Thornton Wilder
  • High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world. -- Philip Sidney
  • For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad. But I could never find me a double hammock -- Frank Sinatra
  • I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike. -- Mother Jones
  • The poet in prose or verse - the creator - can only stamp his images forcibly on the page in proportion as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did. -- Kathryn Stockett
  • It is a good initiative for the dreams that would change one society to be nursed in another environment, before being transplanted to strive in its original environment for the change process to begin! -- Israelmore Ayivor
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