Cradle Quotes
259 quotes by 223 authors
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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…
— Jane Austen
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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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…
— Alfred Adler
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
— Bertolt Brecht
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Humanity is at the very beginning of its existence-a new-born babe, with all the unexplored potentialities of babyhood; and until the last few moments its…
— James Jeans
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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.
— Samuel Hoffenstein
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I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war
— Huey Long
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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…
— Glen Campbell
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This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some have…
— William Wells Brown
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For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs proceed. She is not acknowledged…
— Ernestine Rose
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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…
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and at the same time connects…
— David Whyte
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For me Sir Alex was my father in football. He was crucial in my career and, outside football, was a great human being with me.…
— Cristiano Ronaldo
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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.…
— Albert Einstein
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The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true science. He who knows…
— Hans Selye
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Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
— Heinrich Heine
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I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to the height you…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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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…
— Alice Childress
Who Wrote These Cradle Quotes
223 authors contributed a total of 259 Cradle Quotes, led by these top contributors: