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Nursery Quotes

Life is the soul's nursery.

William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques”, p.275

The world is no nursery.

Sigmund Freud (1965). “New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis”

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.243, Penguin

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.

"Insane Clown Posse's Violent J on working at McDonald's and Janet Jackson's curves". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 18, 2015.

Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

C. S. Lewis (1990). “Poetry and prose in the sixteenth century”, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand

So the dubbed conceit Played nursery of cheat To clear the I of sleet.

Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.126, Macmillan