Quotes about Nest
If you come across a bird’s nest with chicks or eggs, either in a tree or on the ground along the road, and the mother is sitting on the chicks or eggs, you must not take the mother along with the young.
— Deuteronomy 22:6
So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
— Job 29:18
Does the eagle soar at your command and make his nest on high?
— Job 39:27
Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she places her young near Your altars, O LORD of Hosts, my King and my God.
— Psalm 84:3
Like a bird that strays from its nest is a man who wanders from his home.
— Proverbs 27:8
Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:
— Isaiah 16:2
There the owl will make her nest; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather, each with its mate.
— Isaiah 34:15
The terror you cause and the pride of your heart have deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks, O occupiers of the mountain summit. Though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
— Jeremiah 49:16
I will plant it on the mountain heights of Israel so that it will bear branches; it will yield fruit and become a majestic cedar. Birds of every kind will nest under it, taking shelter in the shade of its branches.
— Ezekiel 17:23
Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
— Obadiah 1:4
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
— Pope Francis
The sky's dangers offer the eagle more opportunities than the nest's comfort.
— Matshona Dhliwayo