"Nothing in progression can rest on its original……" — Edmund Burke
"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."
More Cradle Quotes
- To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the… — Jane Austen
- What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle… — Alfred Adler
- From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first. — Bertolt Brecht
- Humanity is at the very beginning of its existence-a new-born babe, with all the unexplored potentialities of babyhood; and until… — James Jeans
- Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut… — Samuel Hoffenstein
- I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war — Huey Long
- There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven… — Glen Campbell
- This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of… — William Wells Brown
- For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs… — Ernestine Rose
- God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the… — Giuseppe Mazzini
- Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and… — David Whyte