Quotes about Nest
Do we, for instance, carry on our work in our nest or do we only reside and get our mail there? Is our nest a place of consumption only or is it also a place of production?
- Wendell Berry
Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.
- Samuel Rutherford
What sorrow awaits you who build big houses with money gained dishonestly! You believe your wealth will buy security, putting your family's nest beyond the reach of danger. HABAKKUK 2:9
- Beth Moore
You who occupy the mountain summit, though you elevate your nest like the eagle, even from there I will bring you down. Jeremiah 49:16
- Beth Moore
Make a room for love and it always comes. Make a nest for love and it always settles. Make a home for the beloved and the beloved with always find their way there
- Marianne Williamson
[Of Pembroke College:] Sir, we are a nest of singing birds.
- Samuel Johnson
How those girls enjoyed putting their nest in order! As Phil said, it was almost as good as getting married. You had the fun of homemaking without the bother of a husband.
- LM Montgomery
Temptations, when we first meet them, are like a lion that roared at Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
- John Bunyan
But if Abram bore his continual wanderings patiently, our fastidiousness is utterly inexcusable, when we murmur against God, if he does not grant us a quiet nest.
- John Calvin
The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
- Charles Kettering
In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.
- Alan Hirsch
For the vacant nest and silent song, Hope was there, and laughed me out of sadness; Whispering, Winter will not linger long!
- Emily Bronte