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Habit is the nursery of errors. -- Victor Hugo
I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song. -- Tre Cool
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery. -- Plato
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. -- Jean Cocteau
I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour. -- John Grisham
A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery. -- Clare Boothe Luce
The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists. -- Vivienne Westwood
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I was a caddy. I also worked as a bouncer, selling Christmas trees at Frank's Nursery and before that, selling what they normally sell. -- Joseph Bruce
Nursery schools and bars at 2 a.m. are the only places where it is completely normal if someone just spontaneously throws up on the floor...and just like a toddler, the bar patron wakes up the next day not remembering or caring how they behaved. -- Jim Gaffigan
I used to work at a puppy nursery. -- Channing Tatum
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. -- Henry Fielding
Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies. -- Jamie Murphy
Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history -- Amos Bronson Alcott
All the kids from my nursery school are still in touch. -- Anne Wojcicki
...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone. -- Guillermo del Toro
Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs. -- Karisma Kapoor
If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk. -- Leon Botstein
A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men. -- Charles Spurgeon
I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. -- Brigid Brophy
My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive. -- Mika
A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be. -- Adrian Rogers
I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like, but I've always dreamed about decorating my baby's nursery. -- Rebecca Romijn
He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter. -- Margery Williams
We're doing a partial green nursery and trying as hard as we can to do as much organic stuff for our nursery as we can. -- Lisa Ling
We need a proper balance between government spending on nursing homes and nursery schools - on the last six months of life and the first six months of life. -- Thomas Friedman
In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace -- Henry Thomas Buckle
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish. -- C. S. Lewis
Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today are repetitious. They're almost nursery rhymes, as if written by children - which they are. -- Rudy Vallee
But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter's evening. I remember them. -- Neil Gaiman
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read. -- James Fenton
We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies. -- Alan Watts
I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange. -- Amanda Harlech
My eyes opened, and the first thing I thought of when I could put thoughts together was I want to be in show business. Never wanted anything else. I used to sneak in the costume room at my nursery school and smell the costumes. -- Joan Rivers
When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?' -- Natalie Portman
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge. -- Erica Jong
I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece. -- Bobby McFerrin
I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss. -- Bat for Lashes
My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.' -- Zooey Deschanel
The world is no nursery. -- Sigmund Freud
Life is the soul's nursery. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Towns were the nursery of freedom. -- Lord Acton
Lovely. Imprisoned in a nursery school dungeon. -- Rick Riordan
Home - the nursery of the Infinite. -- William Ellery Channing
National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius. -- Henry Theodore Tuckerman
. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity. -- John Donne
Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery. -- Otto von Bismarck
India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world -- Leo Tolstoy
Gulliver was soon being read "from the cabinet council to the nursery". -- John Gay
Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
...to all the monsters in my nursery: May you never leave me alone." -- Guillermo del Toro
You'll paint some nursery and the kid will want to sleep in a drawer. -- Drew Magary
So the dubbed conceit Played nursery of cheat To clear the I of sleet.... -- Allen Tate
Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. -- Edmund Burke
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles. -- George Santayana
Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary. -- Michael Arditti
I don't want to be a pop star. I want to be a nursery-rhyme star! -- Charli XCX
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same. -- Hannah Arendt
Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown -- James M. Barrie
Combine nursing homes with nursery schools. Bring very old and very young together: they interest one another. -- John Cage
Teaching is a personal matter of the nursery of the mind and should not be on public display. -- Saul Gorn
Too many in the Church today are likes babies in the nursery,they put everything in their mouth. -- John Paul Warren
Once you accept you're a child in the government nursery, why shouldn't Nanny tell you what to do? -- Mark Steyn
I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins. -- Michael Heseltine
My nan was a nursery maid. Most people weren't in big houses. They were maids of all work. -- Sarah Waters
There is health in table talk and nursery play. We must wear old shoes and have aunts and cousins. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery. -- C. S. Lewis
I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home. -- Nina Jacobson
Most of the pollution in the water already is dead animal and plant matter and building debris, ... good stagnant nursery for mosquitoes. -- James Wright
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table. -- C. S. Lewis
Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more. -- Ray Bradbury
My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty. -- Erma Bombeck
Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery. -- Vance Havner
My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever. -- Alan Garner
Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock. -- Anne Sexton
A 5 yr. old's definition of nursery school: "A place where they teach children who hit, not to hit, and children who don't hit, to hit back." -- James E. Myers
I have always maintained that there is nothing wrong with nursery food now that we are grown up and can have a glass of wine with it. -- Elizabeth Ray
The happy marriage, which is the only proper nursery, is indissoluble. The unhappy marriage, which perpetually tells the child a bogey-man story about life, ought to be dissolved. -- Rebecca West
It is perhaps beside the point to remark that bowling alleys and supermarkets have nursery facilities, while schools and colleges and scientific laboratories and government offices do not. -- Betty Friedan
Birchfall lapped at his wound "You're not very sympathetic for a medicine cat" "I'm here to HEAL you. If you want sympathy, go to the nursery" Jaypaw mewed -- Erin Hunter
When these suckers had formed roots in the open ground, or kind of nursery where they were planted, they were looked over and the best taken up for potting. -- Robert Fortune
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery. -- A. S. W. Rosenbach
What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be dead before we got to the Dancing Class. -- Gwen Raverat
Seohyun's so pure that if Seohyun wasn't a singer, she'd still be singing nursery rhymes. Seohyun watches TV until 2am in the morning. What she watches is the cartoon channel. -- Choi Soo-young
Today's Multiple Choice Thought There is no place where a loving touch so completely compensates for an unskilled hand as in: a. the bedroom b. the nursery c. the garden -- Robert Breault
The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future. -- John Mason Brown
I knew what I wanted to do for my entire life, from nursery to university. I've always been geared towards wanting to act. I've stuck with it, dedicated time to it. -- Archie Panjabi
In the matter of the maintenance and rearing of children the Anarchists would neither institute the communistic nursery which the State Socialists favor nor keep the communistic school system which now prevails. -- Benjamin Tucker
Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past -- Phyllis McGinley
I started doing the nursery and then prepared 89 hours to teach 2 to 4-year- olds.nd during this time working in this church and going to a little country church, I met Randy [White]. -- Paula White
The footballers' wives I know, they're teachers, midwives. They want to do something useful. One is working at my son's nursery, on her hands and knees, in Converse and jeans, teaching kids to count. -- Louise Nurding
The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china. -- H. G. Wells
I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a great band behind us and have turned my nursery-rhyme songs into quite credible pieces of music. -- Tom Felton
Some parents expend great efforts to get their kids into the right nursery school or the right preschool, with the thought that that will set them on the path to success, to competitive success especially. -- Michael Sandel
Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they're four years old, they're usually among the best readers by the time they're eight. -- Mem Fox

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