Cradle Quotes
259 quotes by 222 authors
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true…
— Deborah Harkness
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The curve of your eyes goes around my heart, A round of dance and sweetness, Halo of time, nocturnal and safe cradle, And if I…
— Paul Eluard
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In this man’s smile was all the unfairness of the world in its thuggish seduction. “Just come with me. We’ll take care of you.†“No,…
— Libba Bray
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To hear people talk, you would think no one ever did anything but love each other. But when you look for it, when you search…
— Paul Murray
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Rockabye Baby, in the treetop Dont you know a treetop is no safe place to rock? And who put you up there, and your cradle…
— Shel Silverstein
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Right. As opposed to your cradle-robbing mentor. I don't really see you making much progress with him.
— Richelle Mead
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By God, I shall spend the rest of my life getting my heart back, healing and forgetting every scar you put upon me when I…
— Thomas Wolfe
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Whoever had said that the hand rocked the cradle ruled the world must have has a Southern,born bred mother.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The problem with cell phones is that you can’t slam them down into a cradle when you hang up. Your only option is to throw…
— Holly Black
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Rats They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And…
— Robert Browning
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Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc)
— Diana Palmer
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It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession…
— Margaret Mitchell
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Is that why you came?' 'No, I came because I simply can't get enough of people looking down their noses at me. The girls at…
— Shana Abe
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Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping.
 In the cradle a child is screaming.
 An old man sits over his death, and anyone
 young…
— Marina Tsvetaeva
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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…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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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…
— H.G. Wells
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Have you ever been anyone's?" I ask, a feathery whisper in the quiet bedroom. He lifts his head to mine, and I want him so…
— Katy Evans
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We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away.
— Cassandra Clare
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Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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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…
— Israel Zangwill
Who Wrote These Cradle Quotes
222 authors contributed a total of 259 Cradle Quotes, led by these top contributors: