Pema Chodron
Buddhist Teacher, Author
"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest."
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Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"There is talk ... of our constructing Dnieprostroy through our own means. The means needed are great, several hundred millions. Let us not get into the position of the peasant who, after accumulating a nest-egg, instead of repairing his plough and renewing his equipment, buys a gramophone and goes bankrupt."
Barbara Kingsolver
Author, Biologist
"Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life."
Tom Waits
Singer-songwriter, Actor
"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."
Robert Jordan
Author
"A jealous wife is like a hornets' nest in your mattress"
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"To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest."
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"The owl goes not into the nest of the lark."
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"Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest."
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"No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity."
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"And alone and without his nest shall the Eagle fly across the sun."
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"Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest."
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"The bird loves her nest."
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"Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird."
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"He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses."
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"I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be."
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"The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest."
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"Bureaucracy is adept at protecting its nest."
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"Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?"
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"Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live."
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"If the nest is truly empty, who owns all this junk?"
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"It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest."
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"Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?"
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"The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest."
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"Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks who more often than not were ignored, mocked, or viciously persecuted by society and its institutions."
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"Who are we when we leave our families? Who do we become? What are we capable of? That's something that never leaves us. It begins at that point in your life when you leave the nest, and I don't think we stop wanting to explore that question."
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