Cradle Quotes

259 quotes by 222 authors

Some mothers in today's world feel "cumbered" by home duties and are thus attracted by other more "romantic" challenges. Such women could make the same… — Neal A. Maxwell
Youâ€™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… — Simon Armitage
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… — Andrew Carnegie
Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin. — Robert Green Ingersoll
the world is the cradle and your trap. — Chuck Palahniuk
If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find… — Vincent Van Gogh
I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed,… — Frederick Douglass
Sometimes, the Angel [of Music] leans over the cradle... and that is how there are little prodigies who play the fiddle at six better than… — Gaston Leroux
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to… — Jeanette Winterson
What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys… — Fernando Pessoa
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… — Neil Gaiman
Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes… — Victor Hugo
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… — Charles Baudelaire
In Seattle we live among the trees and the waterways, and we feel we are rocked gently in the cradle of life. Our winters are… — Garth Stein
From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must… — Henry Adams
The last time I saw you, I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle! — Daniel Handler
The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the castle but the… — Caryll Houselander
Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the… — Khalil Gibran
Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes… — Janet Fitch
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in… — Joan Didion

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