Cradle Quotes

Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

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 eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.

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 thing, yet, i silently pray for it's death.

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man in the moon.

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.

From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big.

If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind of fearfulness in the cradle of loving-kindnes."

Far too many people spend a lifetime headed in the wrong direction. They go not only from the cradle to the cubicle, but then to the casket, without uncovering their greatest talents and potential.

the world is the cradle and your trap.

The left promises abortion rights and cradle to the grave protection, so the trick is to make it to the cradle.

Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.

If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.

Man is the being who, from cradle to grave has to abide by either his man-made laws or heavenly law.

Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.

People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns.

Dead is the cradle of everything.

If you want to drive the devil out of the world, hit him with a cradle instead of a crutch

Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.

Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.

The last time I saw you I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!

We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.

[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.

The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world.

Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave

I believe that culture begins in the cradle . . .To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future.

The star of the Magi which pointed so unerringly to the cradle of Christ points not less unerringly to one of the sources from which Christ came.

With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.

The bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw.

My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.

The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow to the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe that will grow to slay me.

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 the dim night of this immortal day.

Right. As opposed to your cradle-robbing mentor. I don't really see you making much progress with him.

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 accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.

Whoever had said that the hand rocked the cradle ruled the world must have has a Southern,born bred mother.

Everyone needs a hobby, he said. And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave.

What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules

In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

My cradle was a shoe.

Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on.

Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.

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 something, some new object yet unattained.