Famous quotes containing the words nursery rhymes, nursery and/or rhymes:
“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)
“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.
“Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure
When with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)