Nurseries Quotes

#1. Nowadays tournaments are for nurseries. Look at those kiddies.

Miguel Najdorf

#2. Perhaps God does with His heavenly garden as we do with our own. He may chiefly stock it from nurseries, and select for transplanting what is yet in its young and tender age
flowers before they have bloomed and trees ere they begin to bear.

Thomas Guthrie

#3. The tiniest bits of opinion sown in the minds of children in private life afterwards issue forth to the world, and become its public opinion; for nations are gathered out of nurseries.

Samuel Smiles

#4. Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

Cotton Mather

#5. EATABLE MARSHMALLOW PILLOWS
LICKABLE WALLPAPER FOR NURSERIES
HOT ICE CREAMS FOR COLD DAYS
COWS THAT GIVE CHOCOLATE MILK
FIZZY LIFTING DRINKS
SQUARE SWEETS THAT LOOK ROUND

Roald Dahl

#6. Between July 1936 and June 1937, the number of children in the city receiving free school education rose from 34,431 to 116,846, and for the first time free nurseries were opened.

Nick Lloyd

#7. Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

Francis Thompson

#8. We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and ... Nature, the sun and moon, the animals, the water and stones, which should be their toys.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start.

Brian Skerry

#10. Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from times long gone.

Carl Sagan

#11. Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.

Ludwig Von Mises

#12. There are about a dozen of these gardens, more or less extensive, according to the business or wealth of the proprietor; but they are generally smaller than the smallest of our London nurseries.

Robert Fortune

#13. She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the dry, dull grass my father had spent years pushing a mower over.

Sarah Dessen

#14. The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

George Berkeley

#15. I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.

Debby Ryan

#16. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Henry Fielding

#17. A gauge of a life well-led: when it won't change if something you own breaks or is stolen; even a heart.

Gregor Collins

#18. Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.

Gore Vidal

#19. I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Richard Gere

#20. A flaw is really beauty owned by nobody else. I think everyone is beautiful.

Mod Sun

#21. The heart of service is grace of belonging.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. You will find no answers here, just choices.

Brent Weeks

#23. Sorrow and loss are meant to prepare us for the vision of God to purge the inward eye that it may see Him.

Alexander MacLaren

#24. One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.

Upton Sinclair

#25. You can accomplish anything in life, provided that you do not mind who gets the credit.

James C. Collins

#26. I am particularly unlucky in meeting with a person so well able to expose my real character, in a part of the world where I had hoped to pass myself off with some degree of credit.

Jane Austen

#27. A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.

Ben Hogan

#28. What I was trying to say, maybe, is that I don't know what it is I'm capable of transforming into.

Nick Flynn