Cradle Quotes

• 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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• 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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• I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

  Derek Jacobi

  Business, Thinking, Feet

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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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• Calmness is the cradle of power.

  J. G. Holland

  Inspirational, Power, Calmness

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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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• Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

  Norman Wisdom

  Might, Firsts, Life Is

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 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

  Life, Girl, Years

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.603, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Baby, Morning, Ocean

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Men, Knowing, Knows

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut (Chapter 76), 1963.

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• From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

  Henry Adams

  Running, Art, Philosophy

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.15, Booklassic

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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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• Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Looks, Sometimes, Wonder

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.11, 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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• 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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• Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Wings, Feet, Tin

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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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• 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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• She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Too Much, Moments

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.33, Dial Press

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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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• She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Heart, World, Pay

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.128, Dial Press

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Form, Treason, Highest

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.98, Dial Press

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