Nursery Stock

Famous quotes containing the words nursery and/or stock:

    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.

    And anyone is free to condemn me to death
    If he leaves it to nature to carry out the sentence.
    I shall will to the common stock of air my breath
    And pay a death tax of fairly polite repentance.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)