Van Nest

Famous quotes containing the words van and/or nest:

    ‘Ouch’ is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    Merrily swinging on brier and weed,
    Near to the nest of his litle dame,
    Over the mountainside or mead,
    Robert of Lincoln is telling his name:
    Bob-o’-link, bob-o’-link,
    William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)