Cradle Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• I would literally climb out of the cradle while my parents slept, go and crawl off. I did this a couple of times apparently. I'd cross the road and into someone's house, wake them up banging pots and pans in the kitchen.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Couple, House, Parent

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• We all have our demons to deal with, Little Pigeon. It's when we cherish them - cradle them to our breasts and feed them, day after day-that's when they curdle our souls.

  Susan Fletcher

  Soul, Littles, Pigeons

  Susan Fletcher (1999). “Shadow spinner”

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• the world is the cradle and your trap.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  World, Traps

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• Snuggle in God's arms. When you are hurting, when you feel lonely, left out. let Him cradle you, comfort you, reassure you of His all-sufficient power and love.

  Kay Arthur

  Lonely, Hurt, Loneliness

  Kay Arthur (1995). “My Savior, My Friend: A Daily Devotional”, Harvest House Pub

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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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• The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

  Mike Wallace

  Mothers Day, Mom, Motherhood

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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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• The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

  Martin Luther

  Christian Inspirational, Christ

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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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• She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Thinking, Fool

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.5, 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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• Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Brave, Healthy, Kind

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• What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, War, Being A Mom

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• For 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

  Good Morning, Beauty, Time

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.207

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• Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,
  Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle,
  . . . .
  A reminiscence sing.

  Walt Whitman

  Bird, Musical, Rocking Out

  "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" l. 1 (1881)

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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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• 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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• The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.51, Library of Alexandria

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• Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.

  Agatha Christie

  Giving, Teeth, Trouble

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1980). “MISS MARPLE MEETS MURDER”

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• Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another ruler with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Art, Strong, Farewell

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• We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

  Steven Pressfield

  Jobs, Destiny, Self

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.146, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

  David McCullough

  Balloons, Morality, Graves

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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• Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.

  Virginia Woolf

  Daughter, Mother, Baby

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• We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.

  E. W. Howe

  Freedom, Book, Should

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