Cradle Quotes

259 quotes by 223 authors

Ere yet we yearn for what is out of our reach, we are still in the cradle. When wearied out with our yearnings, desire again… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the… — William Shakespeare
Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Brain-washing starts in the cradle. — Arthur Koestler
Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze. — William Cowper
Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and… — Hosea Ballou
There is a thing, like a bird, weak and fluttering within my chest, i cradle it and care for it as anyone should an injured… — Gabriel Macht
There is no more important task in Washington than cleaning up the culture of corruption. Yet the president - whose White House has become the… — Harry Reid
Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother… — William Osler
Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous… — Sheri L. Dew
Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too… — Sylvia Plath
It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as… — Leonardo da Vinci
To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle. — James Dean
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it… — Charles Dickens
Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia. — Novak Djokovic
We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter. — Robert Duvall
I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I… — Robert Duvall
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. — Joseph Hall

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