Otto von Bismarck
Statesman, Chancellor
"Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery."
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Nursery
25 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Francis Thompson
Poet
"Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"Habit is the nursery of errors."
Edmund Burke
Philosopher, Politician
"Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions."
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"The world is no nursery."
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"For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same."
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"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."
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"Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery."
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"The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row."
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"So the dubbed conceit Played nursery of cheat To clear the I of sleet."
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"Plans made in the nursery Can change the course of history"
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