“Know, Nature, like the cuckoo, laughs at law,
Placing her eggs in whatso nest she will.”

“One flew east, One flew west, One flew over the cuckoo's nest.”

“The little hen poked her head up from the hole she had dug and looked at the crowing rooster. She thoughtfully looked from the rooster in the window sill to the high row of nests that rose against the end wall of the hen house. She started to dig again, but then she hurried through the loose straw to the nests. The time had come to lay an egg.”

“Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.”

“Nature is always consistent, though she feigns to contravene her own laws. She keeps her laws, and seems to transcend them. She arms and equips an animal to find its place and living in the earth, and at the same time she arms and equips another animal to destroy it.”

“With books and money plac'd for show
Like nest-eggs to make clients lay,
And for his false opinion pay.”

“She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.”

“She opened her mouth like a firebucket and laughed. That terminated my interest in her. I couldn't hear the laugh but the hole in her face when she unzippered her teeth was all I needed.”

“She never stumbles,
she's got no place to fall.
She's nobody's child,
the law can't touch her at all.”

“o, I believe
fate smiled and destiny
laughed as she came to my cradle
know this child will be able
laughed as she came to my mother
know this child will not suffer
laughed as my body she lifted
know this child will be gifted
with love, with patience and with faith
she'll make her way”