His Cradle Quotes
- 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
- A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living. — James Broughton
- Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil. — Rebecca Harding Davis
- 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
- A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless. — Walter Lippmann
- From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure… — Mark Twain
- 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