“Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.”
Source: Fahrenheit 451
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“Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.”
Francis Thompson (1859–1907) British poet
To My Godchild (this line is inscribed on Thompson's gravestone).
“The family meal is the nursery of democracy.”
Michael Pollan (1955) American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism
Context: It's [a kitchen/dining table] where we teach our children the manners they need to get along in society. We teach them how to share. To take turns. To argue without fighting and insulting other people. They learn the art of adult conversation. The family meal is the nursery of democracy.
William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper (1665–1723) English politician and first Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
Devit v. College of Dublin (1720). Gilbert Eq. Ca. 248; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 242.
“Lovely. Imprisoned in a nursery school dungeon.”
Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid
Source: The Red Pyramid
Robert Erskine Childers (1870–1922) Irish nationalist and author
From a letter to the editor, where Childers questions the reasons behind the recent raid of his Dublin home. Irish Times , 19 April 1920.
Literary Years and War (1900-1918), Last Years: Ireland (1919-1922)
“For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.”
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) Jewish-American political theorist
Source: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
“Teaching is a personal matter of the nursery of the mind and should not be on public display.”
Saul Gorn (1912–1992) computer scientist
Attributed to Saul Gorn in: National Association of Educational Broadcasters (1968) Educational Broadcasting Review Vol 2. p. 32; Article "Teaching As A Private Process"
James Montgomery (1771–1854) British editor, hymn writer, and poet
Canto VI, line 74.
The Pelican Island (1827)