Nursery

Famous quotes containing the word nursery:

“What is your fortune, my pretty maid?
“My face is my fortune, Sir,” she said.”
—Where Are You Going to, My Pretty Maid? Nursery rhyme.

“If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“Yes, I know.
Death sits with his key in my lock.
Not one day is taken for granted.
Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)