Quotes with cradle

  • It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.

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  • Blind Lemon Jefferson Woman rocks the cradle and I declare she rules her home Many man rocks some other man's baby and the fool thinks he's rocking his own.
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  • William Blake Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland Calmness is the cradle of power.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Joseph Hall Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
    Joseph Hall
    English bishop and satirist (1574 - 1656)
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  • Alfred Adler Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Bertolt Brecht From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Giuseppe Mazzini God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.
    Giuseppe Mazzini
    Italian writer (1805 - 1872)
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  • Anthony Trollope It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Charles Dickens 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 is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Franz Grillparzer The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
    Franz Grillparzer
    Austrian play writer (1791 - 1872)
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  • Vladimir Nabokov The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Carl Sandburg The people know the salt of the sea
    and the strength of the winds
    lashing the corners of the earth.
    The people take the earth
    as a tomb of rest and a cradle of hope.
    Who else speaks for the Family of Man?
    The People, Yes (1936)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Jane Austen To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Georges Bernanos What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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