#nursery

Reluctantly, I pulled out my necklace and showed it to them. Samuel frowned. The little figure was stylized; I suppose he couldn't tell what it was at first. A dog?" asked Zee, staring at my necklace. A lamb," I said defensively, tucking it safely back under my shirt. "Because one of Christ's names is "The Lamb of God."" Samuel's shoulders shook slightly. "I can see it now, Mercy holding a roomful of vampire at bay with her glowing sheep." I gave his shoulder a hard push, aware of the heat climbing to my cheeks, but it didn't help. He sang in a soft taunting voice, "Mercy had a little lamb... ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#nursery-rhyme #samuel #vampires #zee #christ

When these suckers had formed roots in the open ground, or kind of nursery where they were planted, they were looked over and the best taken up for potting. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#formed #ground #had #kind #looked

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#artists #arts #ever #interested #kind

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour. ↗

— John Grisham

#dollar #earned #first #hour #i

Habit is the nursery of errors. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#habit #nursery

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. ↗

— Brigid Brophy

#believing #consign #equals #i #insist

I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song. ↗

— Tre Cool

#fisher #i #like #music #nursery

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#his #home #inside #man #may

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies. ↗

— Jamie Murphy

#child #like #mathematics #music #nursery

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery. ↗

— Plato

#important #most #nursery #part #proper