Cradle Quotes - Page 5

• Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules

  Thomas Huxley

  Lying, Snakes, Theologian

  Thomas Gribble, Thomas Henry Huxley (1871). “The semi-barbarous Hebrew and the extinguished theologian [a reply to T.H. Huxley's Lay sermons].”, p.3

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• My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity.

  Masiela Lusha

  Mother, Opportunity, America

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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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• I lay my tasks down one by one; I sit in the silence of twilight grace. Out of the shadows, deep and dun, Steals, like a star, my Baby's face. .... I will take up my work once more, As if I had never laid it down. Who will dream that I ever wore, In triumph, motherhood's sacred crown? .... Nevertheless, the way is long, And tears leap up in the light of the sun. I'd give my world for a cradle-song, And a kiss from Baby?only one.

  Mary C. Ames

  Dream, Song, Baby

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• No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Men, World

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

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• Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.

  Diablo Cody

  Space, Nadir, Smog

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• A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

  Walter Lippmann

  Sleep, Men, Useless

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks of life - and if we fail, our government stands ready with Bandaids of every size.

  Shirley Temple

  Government, Risk, Today

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• The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Future, Past, Graves

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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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• Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Lying, Nurse, Falsehood

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.10

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• In the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the earth we tread on, Life is every where. Nature lives: every pore is bursting with Life ; every death is only a new birth, every grave a cradle.

  George Henry Lewes

  Life, Air, Water

  George Henry Lewes (1860). “Studies in animal life”, p.10

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• Each day of the holidays comes bringing its own gifts.
  Open your heart,
  Untie the ribbons,
  and enjoy the contents!
  Were earth a thousand times as fair
  Beset with gold and jewels rare
  She yet were far too poor to be
  A narrow cradle,
  Lord, for Thee.

  Martin Luther

  Christmas, Heart, Holiday

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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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• Oxus, forgetting the bright speed he had In his high mountain cradle in Pamere, A foiled circuitous wanderertill at last The longed-for dash of waves is heard, and wide His luminous home of waters opens, bright And tranquil, from whose floor the new-bathed stars Emerge, and shine upon the Aral Sea.

  Matthew Arnold

  Stars, Home, Sea

  'Sohrab and Rustum' (1853) l. 886

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• We must look into unknown dimensions, into Nature, into that incalculable and imponderable life, whose carrier and mediator, the blood of the Earth that accompanies us steadfastly from the cradle to the grave, is water.

  Viktor Schauberger

  Blood, Accompany Us, Water

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (2000). “The Energy Evolution – Harnessing Free Energy from Nature: Volume 4 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.18, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• Empty Cradle, Broken Heart is written with great awareness and sensitivity. Deborah Davis gets it just right.

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Heart, Broken, Awareness

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• A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives or tedious acquaintances because a familiarity engendered in the cradle had stripped them of all glamour in his eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Eye, Men, Earth

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.346, Modern Library

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• In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death.

  Victor Hugo

  Death, Wreaths, Germs

  Victor Hugo (1897). “Selected Poems from the Edition Definitive”

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• From the cradle to the grave is a school, so if what we call problems are lessons, we see life differently.

  Facundo Cabral

  School, Lessons, Problem

  "Facundo Cabral, Folk Singer Shot And Killed In Guatemala" by Stephanie Marcus, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2011.

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• A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Future, Forever, Mind

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• Eventually we must leave Earth-at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But just as terrestrial explorers have always led the way for settlers, this will also happen extraterrestrially. Earth is our cradle, not our final destiny.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Future, Destiny, Numbers

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.415, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. Lucky dogs! they already knew in their cradles the nouns ending in im. I on the contrary had to learn it by heart, in the sweat of my brow.

  Heinrich Heine

  Dog, Latin, Heart

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.183

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• What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle.

  Thomas Browne

  Art, Philosophy, Hair

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• The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat.

  Wilma Scott Heide

  Rocks, Hands, Boat

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