To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.
Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
If the nest is truly empty, who owns all this junk?
He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses.
For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.
The issue of world environment has a special kind of urgency. . . The issue is one of rich peoples and poor peoples, of the growing gap between the two, and of the rich fouling their own nests.
Basic Instincts It's the way mother birds build nests, and build them high enough to elude
I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L. A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.
Then they'd [Nazi] make movies against England, you know, in the same way, to help, you know, feather their nest for what they - their aggressions.
I have a nest egg, and I don't buy above my means.
By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest.
My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an area of suspension as in a hanging nest that is almost entirely encapsulated.
How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)
Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.
I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.
My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.
The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.
He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.