Quotes About Nest

the thought crossed her mind that a bed was really a very strange thing-a human nest, really, where our human fragility made its nightly demands for comfort and cosseting

And then, after the first blush of the admiration which he could not help feeling, he began to be tortured by the pangs of envy, by that slow fever which creeps over the heart and changes it into a nest of vipers, each devouring the other and ever born anew.

knew she had a nest egg?

Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked up by birds to make their nests. Repeat, or the story will fall and all the king's horses and all the king's men. . . . Repeat, and cradle the pieces carefully, or events will scatter like marbles on a wooden floor.

A fish with a big mouth, like a catfish, they've been known to bite people's legs. Normally not because they're hungry, but because they're protecting a nest or something like that.

For us, we're homebodies. My wife and I like to be at home with family.

Shadows like these generated her first sensation of fear when she was a chick. She didn't have to learn to hate shadows from the sky. Nearly all dinosaurs are born with the same preprogrammed response. Those that are unfortunate enough to hatch with a mutant gene that eliminates the shadow-fear don't survive longer than a week. They are snatched from the nest by jaws from above.

There are powerful forces of destruction loose in the world, advancing inexorably toward her children and mine. The onslaught of progress, well-intentioned to improve human habitat, threatens the nest I've chosen for my children as surely as I threatened hers.

Her house is the nest where she hides the joy, laughter, sorrows, and regrets of her life.

People who hire all these things done for them, never know what they lose; for the homeliest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them, and Meg found so many proofs of this, that everything in her small nest, from the kitchen roller to the silver vase on her parlor table was eloquent of home love and tender forethought.

We're thrilled to join Google. With their support, Nest will be even better placed to build simple, thoughtful devices that make life easier at home, and that have a positive impact on the world.

I'm excited for my little girls. When they left the nest, I was excited because they were winging their way into life.

Where sin was hatch'd, let tears now wash the nest, Where life was lost, recover life with cries.

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

You would not believe how many words there are for 'home' and what savage music there can be wrung from it.

Number 4: the tall, derelict bird's nest of a house owned by her great-uncle Etienne. Where she has lived for four years. Where she kneels on the sixth floor alone, as a dozen American bombers roar toward her.

So there was a species of logic to all of this but it kicked the performers out of the nest into chaos.

When you think of technology that gets people excited - long lines at stores, enthusiastic reviews in the blogosphere, passionate evangelists - the first thing to come to mind probably isn't thermostats. Then, along came Nest.

I'm remembering how it was when I first got here—there was a bird's nest in the oven." She looked up at him. "You rebuilt this whole cabin for me—trying to get me to stay." "The second I saw you, I was doomed. I don't know what would have become of me if you hadn't stayed." "You'd

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in the nurse's office? I know it'd be a tight fit, but it would be sort of perfect.

Because God has a very dark sense of humor," said Father Damien. He was not referring to the frightening disorganization of Father Jude Miller's new and untested emotions, but to the erratic tumble of ants scurrying to rebuild a nest disarranged by their feet.

Ignorance was a comfortable nest to linger in, in the right sort of circumstances.

The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest?" Self-Portrait In a Convex Mirror

The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest?