Cradle Quotes

259 quotes by 223 authors

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave. — David McCullough
A delusion that encourages belief where there is no evidence is asking for trouble. Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because… — Richard Dawkins
Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe… — Anne Frasier
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living. — James Broughton
This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and… — Winston Churchill
If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch — Billy Sunday
At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle… — Umberto Guidoni
Sundown had bloodied the horizon over the uneven rooftops of South Boston. Birds were perched on every roof and seemed to be watching the girl… — James Patterson
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled… — Anthony Trollope
Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked up by birds… — Ann-Marie MacDonald
Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates continents, and extends from the… — Matthew Fontaine Maury
In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God is… — Swami Vivekananda
Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. — Rebecca Harding Davis
Our hearts where they rocked our cradle, Our love where we spent our toil, And our faith, and our hope, and our honor, We pledge… — Rudyard Kipling
[L]ike thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough year just awake In its cradle on the brake. The… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth. — Heinrich Heine
If I could put my finger on it, I'd bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken fraternity… — John Goodman
With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable… — William Matthews
I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and dun, Steals, like… — Mary C. Ames
No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only… — Henry Ward Beecher

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