"Religions are the cradles of despotism." — Marquis de Sade

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• 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

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