Nursling Quotes

#1. Underneath Day's azure eyes, Ocean's nursling, Venice lies, A peopled labyrinth of walls, Amphitrite's destined halls

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#2. Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!

Thomas Carlyle

#3. As once, when the armies of the empire were shattered and the strong barbarians poured in upon the soft provincials, so now the fierce weeds pressed in to destroy the pampered nursling's of man.

George R. Stewart

#4. The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

John Muir

#5. Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?

Melina Marchetta

#6. You make such a noise falling! You scatter all my winter dreams

Kahlil Gibran

#7. What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living.

Philip Sidney

#8. To demand that others should provide you textbook prognoses is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious.

Janusz Korczak