Famous quotes containing the words brood and/or nest:
“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to healevery other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep openthis affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.”
—Washington Irving (17831859)
“How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a womana woman in constant pain because her children no longer live under her roof? Is it possible that a notion so pervasive is, in fact, just a myth?”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)