Cradle Quotes

259 quotes by 223 authors

When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover… — Victor Cousin
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… — Harry Seidler
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… — Robert Green Ingersoll
I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to… — Jane Yolen
Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours. — Mary Baker Eddy
Each culture has some knowledge. That's why I studied with Saj Dev, an Indian flute player. That's why I studied Stockhausen's music. The pygmies' music… — Yusef Lateef
This child is not mine as the first was; I cannot sing it to rest; I cannot lift it up fatherly, And bless it upon… — James Russell Lowell
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims. — Alexis de Tocqueville
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. — Edmund Burke
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… — Sakyong Mipham
What were the relations between the Jews and the secret societies? That is not easy to elucidate, for we lack reliable evidence. Obviously they did… — Bernard Lazare
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… — Ernestine Rose
Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks of our tentative… — Beth Kephart
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… — Tacitus
No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between… — Seamus Heaney
We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We… — Steven Pressfield
What tender and devoted mother wouldn't be dismayed and ill with terror at her son's or daughter's stepping even one hair's breath off the beaten… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
You canâ€™t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the… — Miguel Syjuco
Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future. — Marian Wright Edelman
In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like… — Mark Twain

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