Cradle Quotes

259 quotes by 223 authors

From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths. — Tom Rath
From the cradle to the grave is a school, so if what we call problems are lessons, we see life differently, — Facundo Cabral
A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Eventually we must leave Earth-at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But… — Edgar Mitchell
But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to conquer… — Heinrich Heine
Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round… — William Butler Yeats
Through repeated practice of the body scan over time, we come to grasp the reality of our body as whole in the present moment. This… — Howard Zinn
Human life, from the cradle to the grave, is a school. At every period of his existence man wants a teacher. His pilgrimage upon earth… — John Quincy Adams
As long as parents and teachers in general shall fall under the established rule, it is clear that politics and modes of government will educate… — William Godwin
POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience,… — Ambrose Bierce
In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone needs a hobby, he said. And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from… — Stephen King
When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it. And… — M. L. Stedman
Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but… — Norman Wisdom
The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further. — Joanna Macy
When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat… — Malcolm X
I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everyone there looks an original. — George Bernard Shaw
The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrates,… — Penelope Hobhouse
There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their souls, and become… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're… — Derek Jacobi

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