Cradle Quotes

259 quotes by 223 authors

That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the all… — Ezra Taft Benson
Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle. Peace… — Jefferson Davis
Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia. It is what… — Beryl Markham
Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in. — Dwight L. Moody
InÂ Because, Joseph Riippi says he wants this book to be â€˜a love letter, a prayer, a purgeâ€™ but it actually becomes even more than… — Kevin Sampsell
We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music. — Alain LeRoy Locke
I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where things are a… — Jim Butcher
All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of… — Walter Mosley
Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. — Robert Green Ingersoll
We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but thats no matter. The sea is… — Tom Robbins
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… — Terence McKenna
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… — Thomas Jefferson
I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world. — Adolph Rupp
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… — William McDonough
I was born to give the white man hell, and I will give him hell from the cradle to the grave, — Khalid Abdul Muhammad
Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy… — Thomas Huxley
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… — Mariella Frostrup
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… — Toots Thielemans
The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of the Arabs. The… — Robert Briffault
The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. — William Ross Wallace

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