Quotes about Cradle (225 quotes)

The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument. Votes: 7

Suzi Quatro

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The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid. Votes: 5

Martin Luther

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Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. Votes: 5

Joseph Hall

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To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle. Votes: 5

James Dean

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After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration. Votes: 5

Harry Seidler

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Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse. Votes: 5

Norman Wisdom

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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance. Votes: 5

Alfred Adler

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What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast! Votes: 5

Georges Bernanos

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. Votes: 5

Charles Dickens

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We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page. Votes: 5

Barack Obama

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I rocked the cradle of love. Votes: 3

Billy Idol

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Religions are the cradles of despotism. Votes: 3

Marquis de Sade

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the world is the cradle and your trap. Votes: 3

Chuck Palahniuk

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Empty Cradle, Broken Heart is written with great awareness and sensitivity. Deborah Davis gets it just right. Votes: 3

Sheila Kitzinger

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Cradle of SolitudeFor we know not why our tribulationsare given as suchour fragile formscreated from the dust... Votes: 3

Muse

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A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living. Votes: 3

James Broughton

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Cradle of SolitudeFor we know not why our tribulationsare given as suchour fragile formscreated from the dust Votes: 3

Muse

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The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind -- but one cannot eternally live in a cradle Votes: 3

Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky

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Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. Votes: 3

Rebecca Harding Davis

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We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter. Votes: 3

Robert Duvall

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People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns. Votes: 3

Aleksandra Mir

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It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually. Votes: 3

Anthony Trollope

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God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother. Votes: 3

Giuseppe Mazzini

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The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. Votes: 3

Israel Zangwill

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Sundown had bloodied the horizon over the uneven rooftops of South Boston. Birds were perched on every roof and seemed to be watching the girl walking slowly below. - Cradle and All Votes: 3

James Patterson

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At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay. Votes: 3

Umberto Guidoni

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From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF. Votes: 3

Mark Twain

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From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other. Votes: 3

Ernestine Rose

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Squeezing yourself to ooze out the last ounce of sex allure is terribly hard. I'd like to do roles like Julie in Bury the Dead, Gretchen in Faust and Teresa in Cradle Song. Votes: 3

Marilyn Monroe

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To fall asleep in your embrace,Land of our dreams, what bliss,O you our cradle, you our grave,You the new hope we ever crave,Peninsula so beautiful,Finland for aye our all! Votes: 3

Aleksis Kivi

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I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people. Votes: 3

Derek Jacobi

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My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will. Votes: 3

Jonathan Swift

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Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks of life - and if we fail, our government stands ready with Bandaids of every size. Votes: 3

Shirley Temple

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I thought the idea Jim [Carrey] had, which was to do a comedic version of movies like The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and Unlawful Entry, was really funny. The movie was a little lighter when we first came on, a little more like What About Bob? or something. Votes: 3

Judd Apatow

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My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes. They are the cradle of the morning, they are the kingdom of the stars. My songs are lost in their depths. Let me but soar in that sky, in its lonely immensity. Let me but cleave its clouds and spread wings in its sunshine. Votes: 3

Rabindranath Tagore

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Calmness is the cradle of power. Votes: 2

Josiah Gilbert Holland

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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first. Votes: 2

Bertolt Brecht

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Earth is the nest, the cradle, and we'll move out of it. Votes: 2

Gene Roddenberry

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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. Votes: 2

Henry Ward Beecher

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The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever. Votes: 2

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life. Votes: 2

Edvard Munch

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Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life. Votes: 2

Edvard Munch

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Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle. Votes: 2

Richard Dawkins

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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Votes: 2

Vladimir Nabokov

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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational. Votes: 2

Salma Hayek

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I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes. Votes: 2

Robert Duvall

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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. Votes: 2

Jane Austen

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I'm a conservative because I believe we're here on this earth to do a little more than crawl through life, comfortable in the cradle of government excess and oblivious to the duties required to keep this republic standing. Votes: 2

Allen West

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Among our many crimes as an imperialistic exploiter of other nations' cultures, stealing their movies ranks lower than selling them cigarettes but higher than killing their game. If you've seen big stupid American versions of France's 'Three Men and a Cradle' or, recently, Japan's 'Shall We Dance?,' you can only mutter: 'Guilty, guilty, guilty.' Votes: 2

Stephen Hunter

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Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today. Votes: 2

Mitt Romney

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It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips. Votes: 2

Leonardo da Vinci

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My cradle was a shoe. Votes: 0

W. S. Merwin

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Brain-washing starts in the cradle. Votes: 0

Arthur Koestler

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Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Dead is the cradle of everything. Votes: 0

Antoni Lange

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See the cat? See the cradle? Votes: 0

Kurt Vonnegut

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Calmness is the cradle of power. Votes: 0

J. G. Holland

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Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin. Votes: 0

Robert Green Ingersoll

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[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave. Votes: 0

Georges Bernanos

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The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Votes: 0

William Ross Wallace

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The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation. Votes: 0

Don DeLillo

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Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. Votes: 0

William Blake

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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past. Votes: 0

Franz Grillparzer

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The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat. Votes: 0

Wilma Scott Heide

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All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave. Votes: 0

Agatha Christie

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Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in. Votes: 0

Dwight L. Moody

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marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love. Votes: 0

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. Votes: 0

Robert Green Ingersoll

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The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. Votes: 0

Mike Wallace

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We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music. Votes: 0

Alain LeRoy Locke

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Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future. Votes: 0

Marian Wright Edelman

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Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds. Votes: 0

John Ortberg

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Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle. Votes: 0

Diablo Cody

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Soul SisterEvoking all my inner goodnesswith bastions of timeI cradle your heartsisterly into mine... Votes: 0

Muse

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From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom. Votes: 0

T.F. Hodge

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The last time I saw you, I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle! Votes: 0

Daniel Handler

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Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories. Votes: 0

Cornelius Lanczos

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The Earth is the cradle of Humanity. But one doesn't always live in the cradle. Votes: 0

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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Pale January lay In its cradle day by day Dead or living, hard to say. Votes: 0

Alfred Austin

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A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. Votes: 0

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton

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[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze. Votes: 0

William Cowper

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Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc) Votes: 0

Diana Palmer

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Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle. Votes: 0

Miguel de Cervantes

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Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules Votes: 0

Thomas Huxley

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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave. Votes: 0

David McCullough

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Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood. Votes: 0

Heinrich Heine

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Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours. Votes: 0

Mary Baker Eddy

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Right. As opposed to your cradle-robbing mentor. I don't really see you making much progress with him. Votes: 0

Richelle Mead

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I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system. Votes: 0

Mary Robinson

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From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths. Votes: 0

Tom Rath

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Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on. Votes: 0

William Butler Yeats

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The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big. Votes: 0

Mary Antin

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The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave. Votes: 0

Edward Bellamy

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A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless. Votes: 0

Walter Lippmann

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Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing. Votes: 0

Walt Whitman

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I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everyone there looks an original. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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Nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care. Votes: 0

Bryant McGill

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Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth. Votes: 0

Heinrich Heine

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The bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw. Votes: 0

Martin Luther

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Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion. Votes: 0

Horace

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And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man in the moon. Votes: 0

Harry Chapin

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Man is the being who, from cradle to grave has to abide by either his man-made laws or heavenly law. Votes: 0

Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

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Whoever had said that the hand rocked the cradle ruled the world must have has a Southern,born bred mother. Votes: 0

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch Votes: 0

Billy Sunday

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My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity. Votes: 0

Masiela Lusha

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I was born to give the white man hell, and I will give him hell from the cradle to the grave, Votes: 0

Khalid Abdul Muhammad

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The left promises abortion rights and cradle to the grave protection, so the trick is to make it to the cradle. Votes: 0

Dennis Miller

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From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down. Votes: 0

Keith Urban

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all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle! Votes: 0

Clare Boothe Luce

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From the cradle to the grave is a school, so if what we call problems are lessons, we see life differently, Votes: 0

Facundo Cabral

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We are not against religions. This country is the cradle of prophecy and the true message and we will not contradict this. Votes: 0

Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

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Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims. Votes: 0

Alexis de Tocqueville

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I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world. Votes: 0

Adolph Rupp

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So I cradle this average violin that knows Only forgotten showtunes, but argues The possibility of free declamation anchored To a dull refrain.... Votes: 0

John Ashbery

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A flow'ret crushed in the bud, A nameless piece of Babyhood, Was in her cradle-coffin lying; Extinct, with scarce the sense of dying Votes: 0

Charles Lamb

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We must remember that nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care. Votes: 0

Bryant McGill

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Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave. Votes: 0

Samuel Hoffenstein

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A lot of the state-sponsored growth in India was just too fast. You went from cradle to Nirvana in a short period of time. Votes: 0

Jerry A. Webman

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It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian religious traditions. Votes: 0

Michael Tsarion

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It is not the hand that rocks the cradle that rules the world; it is the woman that holds the keys to the kingdom. Votes: 0

Shannon L. Alder

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It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902. Votes: 0

Jelly Roll Morton

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All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave... Votes: 0

Eric Clapton

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A mighty power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled,For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world. Votes: 0

William Ross Wallace

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What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle. Votes: 0

Thomas Browne

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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. Votes: 0

Edmund Burke

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The notion of there being something greater than humanity can strike fear in the bravest of soldiers and cradle courage in the palm of a child's hand." Votes: 0

Katlyn Charlesworth

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Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell. Votes: 0

James Gleick

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The star of the Magi which pointed so unerringly to the cradle of Christ points not less unerringly to one of the sources from which Christ came. Votes: 0

John Remsburg

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Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave. Votes: 0

James Russell Lowell

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No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way. Votes: 0

Alice Childress

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If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever. Votes: 0

William McDonough

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Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think. Votes: 0

Sylvia Plath

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Snuggle in God's arms. When you are hurting, when you feel lonely, left out. let Him cradle you, comfort you, reassure you of His all-sufficient power and love. Votes: 0

Kay Arthur

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Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia. Votes: 0

Novak Djokovic

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Obama's defiantly vowed not only to radically expand the reach of government from cradle to grave, but to smash the Constitution's restrictions on government power while doing it. Votes: 0

Steve Stockman

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Through knowledge we behold the world's creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature's cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass. Votes: 0

Edmund Spenser

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Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb. Votes: 0

Hosea Ballou

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The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance. Votes: 0

Robert Green Ingersoll

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This thing called love, it cries like a baby in a cradle all night. It swings, it jives, it shakes all over like a jelly fish. I kinda like it. Votes: 0

Freddie Mercury

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Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out. Votes: 0

Jay Griffiths

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There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration. Votes: 0

Andrew Carnegie

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I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future. Votes: 0

Jane Yolen

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Everyone needs a hobby, he said. And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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You're beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light at your miniature feet Votes: 0

Simon Armitage

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Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed. Votes: 0

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without. Votes: 0

John Stuart Mill

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Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave. Votes: 0

William Davenant

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With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained. Votes: 0

William Matthews

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Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead hand on the creative spirit of the American people. Votes: 0

Herbert Hoover

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When we look for the origins of all humanity today, let's not just look at Europe, because I think Africa was the cradle, the crucible that created us as Homo sapiens. Votes: 0

Donald Johanson

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The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow to the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe that will grow to slay me. Votes: 0

Neil Gaiman

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Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day. Votes: 0

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive years of use with many generations of babies. Votes: 0

Alice Morse Earle

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The Holocaust may belong to history, but it was the price we paid to become a nation. Auschwitz was like a cradle of death that enabled future generations of Israelis to live. Votes: 0

Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

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My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician. Votes: 0

Toots Thielemans

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If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind of fearfulness in the cradle of loving-kindnes." Votes: 0

Sakyong Mipham

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Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again falls asleep; we are on the death-bed. Votes: 0

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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We all have our demons to deal with, Little Pigeon. It's when we cherish them - cradle them to our breasts and feed them, day after day-that's when they curdle our souls. Votes: 0

Susan Fletcher

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We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart. Votes: 0

Terence McKenna

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Waste equals food, whether it's food for the earth, or for a closed industrial cycle. We manufacture products that go from cradle to grave. We want to manufacture them from cradle to cradle. Votes: 0

William McDonough

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Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices. Votes: 0

Charles Baudelaire

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Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? Votes: 0

William Butler Yeats

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With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature. Votes: 0

Mariella Frostrup

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There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world Votes: 0

Glen Campbell

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If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient. Votes: 0

Tacitus

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There is a thing, like a bird, weak and fluttering within my chest, i cradle it and care for it as anyone should an injured thing, yet, i silently pray for it's death. Votes: 0

Gabriel Macht

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We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave. Votes: 0

H. G. Wells

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Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family. Votes: 0

William Osler

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Far too many people spend a lifetime headed in the wrong direction. They go not only from the cradle to the cubicle, but then to the casket, without uncovering their greatest talents and potential. Votes: 0

Tom Rath

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Most people are afraid to really take the time and do the work required to love self enough to cradle their wounded parts like a newborn baby before involving anyone else in their life. Votes: 0

Sanjo Jendayi

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The ever-growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave is putting ever-greater obstacles in the way of co-operation among human beings. Votes: 0

Rudolf Rocker

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We must look into unknown dimensions, into Nature, into that incalculable and imponderable life, whose carrier and mediator, the blood of the Earth that accompanies us steadfastly from the cradle to the grave, is water. Votes: 0

Viktor Schauberger

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Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty. Votes: 0

Paul Harris

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POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness. Votes: 0

Thich Nhat Hanh

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Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate. Votes: 0

John Nelson Darby

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For the past two years, President Obama has promised our children the moon, stars, rainbows, unicorns and universal health care for all. But the White House Santa's cradle-to-grave entitlement mandates are a spectacularly predictable bust. Votes: 0

Michelle Malkin

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