Van Nest

Famous quotes containing the words van and/or nest:

“Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

“How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell of a woman—a woman in constant pain because her children no longer live under her roof? Is it possible that a notion so pervasive is, in fact, just a myth?”
—Lillian Breslow Rubin (20th century)