Top 40 Nursery Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Nursery Quotes from famous people such as Shamna Kasim, Joely Richardson, Emily Berrington, John Mortimer, James Fenton, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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In Sarvamangalam,’ I am fond of flowers and I want to own a nursery. My character talks only to flowers. If she is sad she will go and talk to flowers. It is not a comedy film, it is a nice subject.
Shamna Kasim
The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd’s Bush – the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film ‘The Palestinian.’ Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.
Joely Richardson
My first role was an angel in the nursery nativity. I spotted my mum halfway through and shouted over someone else’s lines to ask if she liked my costume. I’ve learnt not to do that now.
Emily Berrington
My father was the doyen of the divorce barristers. He was an extremely erudite and very famous divorce barrister. So that, when I was a little boy in the nursery, instead of a story like ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,’ I used to get ‘The Duchess and the Seven Correspondents.’
John Mortimer
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read.
James Fenton
Of course, it’s hard to get interested in the whole idea of government. Nothing ever changes, especially people saying ‘nothing ever changes,’ despite the fact their kid now has a free nursery place and their aunt was forced to work despite having dementia.
Frankie Boyle
Writing, for me, really started in the ’70s as a young child. I used to read a lot of nursery rhymes, and I learned a lot of those rhymes word for word.
Gza
My first record was about childhood. There were a lot of nursery rhyme and fairytale references; it was all about being naive.
Mika
My parents both worked full-time flipping burgers at the local fast-food joint, and my grandmother looked after us. English was her second language, so instead of books, I learned spoken French nursery rhymes and curse words.
Kameron Hurley
A man’s home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.
Clare Boothe Luce
I remember everyone in my nursery school class getting a carton of milk before the day started. Only, I got mine about 20 minutes later than everyone else because it had to be kept on the radiator for a short while. I liked warm milk when I was small.
Luke Pasqualino
In 1996, Trump had crashed a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a charity opening a nursery school for children with AIDS. Trump, who had never donated to the charity, stole a seat onstage that had been saved for a big contributor.
David Fahrenthold
I’m on my own so I do everything. I think with any mum, guilt is a major factor. You feel guilty dropping your kid off at nursery and going off to work all day. It’s so tough to juggle everything, to get it right all the time.
Laila Rouass
There is still the feeling that women’s writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
Erica Jong
When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y’know, ‘What does your dad do for a living?’ So I said ‘He helps women get pregnant!’ They called my mom and they were like, ‘What exactly does your husband do?’
Natalie Portman
I wonder if the nursery and the chamber of horrors are as far apart as people think?
Tove Jansson
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.
John Grisham
We’re doing a partial green nursery and trying as hard as we can to do as much organic stuff for our nursery as we can.
Lisa Ling
I used to work at a puppy nursery.
Channing Tatum
‘Goodnight Moon’ is a staple of any nursery bookshelf. So, too, are ‘Harold and the Purple Crayon’ and ‘Madeline.’ These books are just as much a part of mainstream reading culture as ‘The Catcher in the Rye,’ and they are passed down from generation to generation.
Rebecca Serle
I have felt the force of what governments can do. I remember my elder son being in the first cohort of kids who got a free nursery place, I remember the palliative care my mother got at home as I watched her die.
Jess Phillips
I eat very simple food, really. A lot of it tending towards nursery food.
Sophie Dahl
You can get people to follow very intricate pathways of musical information, but it feels like a nursery rhyme or a children’s story.
Jacob Collier
I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.
Tre Cool
My first club was FT Gern. I joined through my parents and friends. My father played for them and a friend from nursery school took me to training once. I was five at the time.
Philipp Lahm
My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had no interest in writing whatsoever.
Alan Garner
Startups were thriving in Los Angeles when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard were closer to the nursery than they were the garage.
Brock Pierce
My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.
Jack Dangermond
Composers now just don’t have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today are repetitious. They’re almost nursery rhymes, as if written by children – which they are.
Rudy Vallee
I get asked a lot what books I recommend for a nursery, home library, etc., and I always tell parents to start with what they loved as children, what they want to share, and broaden out from there.
Rebecca Serle
A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. Yo

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.
Adrian Rogers
We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure.
Joel Salatin
It seems like some of my favorite songs have almost like a nursery rhyme vibe to them.
Ruston Kelly
I was a housepainter and a landscape nursery man, and all these various odd jobs I had, and started doing community theater.
Michael Emerson
You might want to write ‘War and Peace,’ but that might not be who you are. You might be better off with nursery rhymes.
Romesh Gunesekera
All the kids from my nursery school are still in touch.
Anne Wojcicki
We’ve got to protect the nursery schools. I’m chair of governors in a nursery school in my area. If we lost the provision, I’d be worried about the socialising skills of children.
Colin Salmon
Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.
Karisma Kapoor
Dartmoor proper consists of that upland region of granite, rising to nearly 2,000 feet above the sea, and actually shooting above that height at a few points, which is the nursery of many of the rivers of Devon.
Sabine Baring-Gould