Van Nest

Famous quotes containing the words van and/or nest:

“To be is to be the value of a variable.”
—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)