Top 404 Nest Quotes & Sayings

I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.

The empty nest is underrated.

Once you're retired and are no longer counting on earned income to live on and supplement your nest egg, you're done with disability insurance. At that point, though, the need for long-term care insurance - which protects you from spending that nest egg too fast - takes over.

Earth is the nest, the cradle, and we'll move out of it.

Hatched in the same nest.

I think that an anthill is better than a nest ... that in the anthill among a hundred thousand or a million you are freer than in a nest, where all sit around and look at one another, waiting until scientists finally discover ways to make us mind readers. ... the psychology of the nest is loathsome to me, and I always sympathize with one who flees his nest, even if he flees into an anthill, where it may be crowded but one can find solitude - that most natural, most worthy state of man, that precious and intense state of being conscious of the world and of oneself.

The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet's nest.

I, as a storyteller, was asking questions no one in science had apparently asked. What happens in a nest of tyrannosaurs? They're precocial, meaning when they hatch, they're ready to feed and move about. My questions are "Hmm, if there's a nest of tyrannosaurs, and there's three siblings that survive, would they try to eat each other?"

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

I love my home comforts and I need to nest to feel grounded.

A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.

Birds are so much wiser than we! A robin builds a nest for robins. A seagull builds a nest for seagulls. They don't copy each other - or build themselves nests as described in The Birds' Decorating Magazine.

The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?

Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.

Build yourself a book-nest to forget the world without.

When you're in the middle of nowhere, when you're on this tiny little island, probably one of ten people ever to step foot on this island, it's taken you a week to get there by boat - and you step near to an albatross nest. It doesn't even look at you as the enemy. You get this great nature moment. Until you realize the albatross, along with the thousands of other winged albatrosses next to it, has constructed its nest of trash.

No matter. The dead bird does not leave the nest.

Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

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

It's not the fledgling birds that are thrown out of the nest by their parents and made to fly; it's the parents who are made to get the hell out of cozy family nest by their teenage offspring. It's we who are made to be independent of them, crash-landing if we don't manage it.

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.

Follow Through is elegant, sure footed, smart—a nest of sticks that won’t stay sticks—a nest of sticks that snowballs—scary and marvelous.

I'm not planning on giving my kids any of my wealth. They know when their education is over, I'm pushing them out of the nest. The bird you see dead under the nest is the one who didn't think about the future.

One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls Man the only animal that soils its own nest. Every animal soils its nest with the products of its metabolism if unable to move away. Space technology gives us for the first time the freedom to leave our nest, at least for certain functions, in order not to soil it.

Nest Thermostat owners like the carbon monoxide link. If Nest Protect's carbon monoxide alarm goes off, the Nest Thermostat automatically turns off the gas furnace.

If the nest is truly empty, who owns all this junk?

That night, like every other night since I’d met her, I curled Grace into my arms, listening to her parents’ muffled movements in the living room. They were like busy little brainless birds, fluttering in and out of their nest at all hours of the day or night, so involved in the pleasure of nest building that they hadn’t noticed that it had been empty for years.

Like a young eaglet that gets pushed out of the nest at the appropriate time, a young man must learn to fly on his own. If the nest is too cushy, if all of his creature comforts are there for his enjoyment, then he may set up his high-definition television and perch for a while.

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.

You want to know what makes me tick, I'll tell you what makes me tick. I was a boy growing up in Brooklyn; I read a two-penny magazine called 'The Hawk's Nest.' Nobody entered that nest that didn't leave a little richer and a little wiser. And that 11-year-old boy said, 'Isn't that a wonderful thing.' And that's all there is to it.

The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

I think we need to have a nest of something which is family.

Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest.

The bird loves her nest.

Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?

I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.

I diagnosed my loneliness as premature empty nest syndrome.

Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.

It is a foule byrd that fyleth his owne nest.

You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.

I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.

To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.

I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.

They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.

Founded by an ex-Apple employee, Nest devices do for thermostats and smoke alarms what the Mac did for PCs - Google Buys Nest made them relevant and far more valuable.

God is the nest we build together.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

A jealous wife is like a hornets' nest in your mattress

Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson.

What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.

It is a foul bird that filleth his own nest.

By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest.

I don't do well with my children leaving the nest.

He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.

Silence is the nest and music is the bird. The bird leaves the nest early in the morning and returns to the nest in the evening. Similarly, in the spiritual world, divine music comes from the inmost soul of Silence.

The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion.

The Universe will kick you out of your nest so you can fly.

I'm not a nest-egg person.

Our nest eggs, no matter how small, are safe.