Cradle Quotes

• 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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• 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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• From the cradle to the grave she is subject to the power and control of man. Father, guardian, or husband, one conveys her like some piece of merchandise over to the other.

  Ernestine Rose

  Husband, Father, Men

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• 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

  Love, Mother, Country

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1945). “Selected Writings”

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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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• 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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• Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Change, Self, Names

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The achievements of the ingenious gentleman, don Quixote de la Mancha. A tr. based on that of P.A. Motteux, with the memoir and notes of J.G. Lockhart”, p.225

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• See the cat? See the cradle?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Cat, Cats Cradle

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.179, Dial Press

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• 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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• After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

  Harry Seidler

  Europe, Firsts, Architecture

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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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• How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Complicated, Machinery, Unpredictable

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.66, Dial Press

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• All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lying, Writing, Shameless

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press

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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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• "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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• 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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• My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

  Toots Thielemans

  Sunday, Parent, Musician

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• Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Children, Devil, Agents

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.23, Vanderbilt University Press

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• The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

  Israel Zangwill

  Life, Forgiveness, Memories

  Israel Zangwill (1921). “The Voice of Jerusalem”

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• In this world, you get what you pay for.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  World, Pay, This World

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

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• I rocked the cradle of love.

  Billy Idol

  Song: Rock The Cradle Of Love, Album: Charmed Life, 1990

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• 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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• The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

  Israel Zangwill

  Inspirational, Past, Imitation

  Israel Zangwill (1921). “The Voice of Jerusalem”

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• Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lying, Book, Bokonon

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• I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lucky, Looks, Mud

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