Famous quotes containing the words brood and/or nest:
““You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruit worthy of repentance.””
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 3:7-8.
““... Or how should love be worth its pains were it not
That when he has fallen asleep within my arms,
Being wearied out, I love in man the child?
What can they know of love that do not know
She builds her nest upon a narrow ledge
Above a windy precipice?””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)