Cradle Quotes

• Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Autumn, Giving

  Charles Dickens (1870). “Novels”, p.165

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• 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

  Responsibility, Awkward, Tears

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• Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

  Edvard Munch

  Angel, Artist, Insanity

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• 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

  Death, Rocks, Two

  Speak, Memory (1951) ch. 1

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• We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.

  Barack Obama

  War, Responsibility, New Beginnings

  Address to the Nation on the End of Operation Iraqi Freedom, delivered 31 August 2010, Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, Gun, Pigs

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 114), 1963.

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• New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  New Beginnings, Earth, Breakfast Of Champions

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.41, Dial Press

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• Religions are the cradles of despotism.

  Marquis de Sade

  Tyrants, Religion, Literature

  Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel”, Library of Alexandria

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• Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Happiness, Growing Up, Disappointment

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• Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Inspirational, Education, Teenager

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut. Chapter 124: Frank's Ant Farm, 1963.

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• Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Nature, Philosophy, Sleep

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from May 27, 2016

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• Calmness is the cradle of power.

  J. G. Holland

  Inspirational, Power, Calmness

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• If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.

  Salma Hayek

  Educational, America, Giving

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• There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Life, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.18, Dial Press

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• From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Clean Underwear, Coffins, Literature

  Bertolt Brecht, Desmond Ivo Vesey, Eric Bentley (1964). “The Threepenny Opera”, p.51, Grove Press

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• To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

  James Dean

  Thinking, Actors, Neurosis

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close to mud as man sat, looked around, and spoke. "What is the purpose of all this?" he asked politely. "Everything must have a purpose?" asked God. "Certainly," said man. "Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God. And He went away.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Loneliness, Men, Thinking

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• We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

  Robert Duvall

  Journey, Graves, Hereafter

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• Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

  Joseph Hall

  Death, Dying, Borders

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Practical works”, p.175

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• Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Forever, Searching For Love, Form

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.97, Dial Press

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• "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Fear, Hate, Hard Work

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 124), 1963.

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• Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Travel, Climbing, Dancing

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1963.

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• Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Thinking, People

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 33), 1963.

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• People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Meaningful, Communication, Order

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.152, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lying, Writing, Men

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, ch. 127, 1963.

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