Cradle Quotes - Page 6

• [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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• Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.

  Heinrich Heine

  Time, Morning, Rays

  Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

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• We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Tattoo, Tribes, Records

  "The Poet at the Breakfast Table". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., 1872.

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• If I could put my finger on it, I'd bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken fraternity guys and had never seen anything like it - the climate, the smells. It's the cradle of music; it just flipped me. Someone suggested that there's an incomplete part of our chromosomes that gets repaired or found when we hit New Orleans. Some of us just belong here.

  John Goodman

  New Orleans, Smell, Guy

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• With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.

  William Matthews

  Forever, Contentment, Longing

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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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• The ever-growing power of a soulless political bureaucracy which supervises and safeguards the life of man from the cradle to the grave is putting ever-greater obstacles in the way of co-operation among human beings.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Men, Political, Way

  Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.2, AK Press

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• I have this amateur side attraction to, and interest in, the sciences and biology and physics and evolution. Paleontology is of interest to me. I'm interested in the way these fields have helped us understand how we are human and why we are human. I'm also from the area that is considered to be the cradle of mankind.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Way, Fields, Sides

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My Lawyer being practiced almost from his Cradle in defending Falsehood; is quite out of his Element when he would be an Advocate for Justice, which as an Office unnatural, he always attempts with great Awkwardness if not with Ill-will.

  Jonathan Swift

  Ill Will, Justice, Office

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• It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian religious traditions.

  Michael Tsarion

  Christian, Religious, Egypt

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• Most historians accept that Egypt was a cradle of civilization, and that many cultural idioms and traditions come from there. What has yet to be understood, however, is the manner in which Egypt inherited its cultural elements from the lands of the North-West. This fact is not known today because of the threat it poses to Rome and London, the Vatican and Crown, and to all those who have profited from the suppression of knowledge.

  Michael Tsarion

  Egypt, Rome, Land

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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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• Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

  Jay Griffiths

  Cat, Animal, Squirrels

  "Fifty years on, the silence of Rachel Carson's spring consumes us" by Jay Griffiths, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2012.

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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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• This thing called love, it cries like a baby in a cradle all night. It swings, it jives, it shakes all over like a jelly fish. I kinda like it.

  Freddie Mercury

  Love, Baby, Night

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• If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Children, Live Life

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.72

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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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• 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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• Cradles are the most powerful pinning combination known to man

  Wade Schalles

  Powerful, Men, Combination

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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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