Youth Nursery

Famous quotes containing the words youth and/or nursery:

    Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature.
    Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)

    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.