Cradle Quotes - Page 4

• A mighty power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled,For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.

  William Ross Wallace

  Mother, Men, Rocks

  J .K. Hoyt 'Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations' (1896) 402

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• 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.

  Tom Rath

  People, Cubicles, Talent

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• The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

  William Ross Wallace

  Rocks, Hands, World

  William Ross Wallace, “The Hand That Rocks The Cradle Is The Hand That Rules The World”

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• Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Ideas, Pay, Attention

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.101, Dial Press

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• Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Inspirational, Sad, Regret

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.279, Dial Press

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• A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Liars, Lying, Eye

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Parent, Literature, Call Me

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• After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Father, Cities, America

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.17, Dial Press

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• You get what you pay for.

  Gabriel Biel

  Pay, Contradicting, Passion And Purity

  "Expositio Canonis Missae" by Gabriel Biel, Lectio 86, 1576.

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• Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Wings, Feet, Tin

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• My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes. They are the cradle of the morning, they are the kingdom of the stars. My songs are lost in their depths. Let me but soar in that sky, in its lonely immensity. Let me but cleave its clouds and spread wings in its sunshine.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Song, Lonely, Morning

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.75, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Men, Mind

  Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.13, Xist Publishing

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• The Holocaust may belong to history, but it was the price we paid to become a nation. Auschwitz was like a cradle of death that enabled future generations of Israelis to live.

  Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

  Israel, Holocaust, Generations

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• The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold,
  And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes,
  For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies,
  With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold.

  William Butler Yeats

  Children, Heart, Eye

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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

  William Butler Yeats

  Children, Sleep, Storm

  William Butler Yeats (2016). “Collected Poems”, p.101, William Butler Yeats

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• 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.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Mother, Morning, Children

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

  Cornelius Lanczos

  Astronomy, Natural, Theory

  Cornelius Lanczos (1970). “Space through the ages: The evolution of geometrical ideas from Pythagoras to Hilbert and Einstein”

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• From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.

  Keith Urban

  Evil, Temptation, Matter

  Song: You're Not My God, Album: Golden Road

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• A common question asked of writers is "When did you decide to become a writer?" The answer, of course, is that we didn't decide anything. It was decided for us. I firmly believe that mythical godmothers make appearances at our cradles, and bestow their gifts. The godmother who might have blessed me with a singing voice did not show up; the goddess of dance was nowhere in sight; the chef-to-the-angels was otherwise engaged. Only one made the journey to my cradle, and she whispered, "You will be a storyteller."

  Mary Higgins Clark

  Believe, Blessed, Angel

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• This thing called love, it cries like a baby in a cradle all night. It swings, it jives, it shakes all over like a jelly fish. I kinda like it.

  Freddie Mercury

  Love, Baby, Night

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• He received me not only cordially, but he was also full of confidence with respect to the war. His first words, after he had welcomed me, were as follows: 'Well, Dr. Weismann, we have as good as beaten them already.' I...thanked him for his constant support for the Zionist course. 'You were standing at the cradle of this enterprise.' I said to him, 'and hopefully you will live to see that we have succeeded.' Adding that after the war we would build up a state of three to four million Jews in Palestine, whereupon he replied: 'Yes, go ahead, I am full in agreement with this idea.'

  Chaim Weizmann

  War, Agreement, Ideas

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• This is the pleasantest part of life. Oblivion throws her light coverlet over our infancy; and, soon after we are out of the cradle we forget how soundly we had been slumbering, and how delightful were our dreams. Toil and pleasure contend for us almost the instant we rise from it: and weariness follows whichever has carried us away. We stop awhile, look around us, wonder to find we have completed the circle of existence, fold our arms, and fall asleep again.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Dream, Fall, Light

  Walter Savage Landor (1836). “Pericles and Aspasia”

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• Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

  Jay Griffiths

  Cat, Animal, Squirrels

  "Fifty years on, the silence of Rachel Carson's spring consumes us" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.

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• A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior. It is the cradle that never stops rocking after the lullaby is over. It is the biggest sleeping tablet in the world, and no one need ever swallow the pill, for it swallows them.

  Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

  Travel, Sleep, Night

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• [L]ike thee to those in sorrow, Comes to bid a sweet good-morrow To the rough year just awake In its cradle on the brake. The brightest hour of unborn Spring, Through the winter wandering, Found, it seems, the halcyon Morn To hoar February born.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sweet, Spring, Winter

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.612

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