quotes about Cradle
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Pale January lay In its cradle day by day Dead or living, hard to say.
-- Alfred AustinSource : Alfred Austin (1896). “Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin”
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Dead is the cradle of everything.
-- Antoni LangeSource : "Thinkings" by Antoni Lange,
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Brain-washing starts in the cradle.
-- Arthur KoestlerSource : Arthur Koestler (1981). “Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories”, Vintage
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I rocked the cradle of love.
-- Billy IdolSource : Song: Rock The Cradle Of Love, Album: Charmed Life, 1990
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Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.
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The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.
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I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everyone there looks an original.
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[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave.
-- Georges Bernanos -
Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave
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Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.
-- Horace -
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A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
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The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further.
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The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
-- Martin Luther -
The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big.
-- Mary AntinSource : Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.251, Courier Corporation
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I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.
-- Mary RobinsonSource : "Big business becomes Mrs Robinson's affair" by Terry Slavin, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2004.
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marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
Love humiliates you. Hatred cradles you.
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Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.
-- Novak Djokovic -
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We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.
-- Robert Duvall -
Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules
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From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths.
-- Tom RathSource : "StrengthsFinder 2.0". Book by Tom Rath, 2007.
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Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.
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Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories.
-- Cornelius LanczosSource : Cornelius Lanczos (1970). “Space through the ages: The evolution of geometrical ideas from Pythagoras to Hilbert and Einstein”