Cradle Quotes

A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. (Konstantin Tsiolkovsky)
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. View quote
Israel Zangwill
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. View quote
Jane Austen
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. View quote
Joseph Hall
Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire. View quote
William Blake
This child is not mine as the first was I cannot sing it to rest I cannot lift it up fatherly, And bless it upon my breast. Yet it lies in my little one's cradle, And sits in my little one's chair, And the light of the heaven she 's gone to Transfigures its golden hair. View quote
James Russell Lowell
The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave. View quote
Edward Bellamy
Why, you're all grown up! The last time I saw you I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle! View quote
Daniel Handler
Individualism is the cradle of vulgarity. View quote
Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Step back in time; look closely at the child in the very arms of his mother; see the external world reflected for the first time in the yet unclear mirror of his understanding; study the first examples which strike his eyes; listen to the first words which arouse within him the slumbering power of thought; watch the first struggles which he has to undergo; only then will you comprehend the source of his prejudices, the habits, and the passions which are to rule his life. The entire man, so to speak, comes fully formed in the wrappings of his cradle. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
Sir, it is true that republics have often been cradled in war, but more often they have met with a grave in that cradle. Peace is the interest, the policy, the nature of a popular Government. War may bring benefits to a few, but privation and loss are the lot of the many. An appeal to arms should be the last resort, and only by national rights or national honor can it be justified. View quote
Jefferson Davis
If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever. View quote
William McDonough
When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much ridicule that you would never forget it? With his morbid dream of primitive and rustic life, with his nostalgia for Homeric cheeses and legendary wool-spinners, with his hatred for the machine, steam power, and electricity, that maniac of antique simplicity is like a man who, after having reached full physical maturity, still wants to sleep in his cradle and feed himself at the breast of his decrepit old nurse in order to recover his thoughtless infancy. View quote
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
To fall asleep in your embrace, Land of our dreams, what bliss, O you our cradle, you our grave, You the new hope we ever crave, Peninsula so beautiful, Finland for aye our all! View quote
Aleksis Kivi
As an advocate of birth control I wish ... to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes. In this matter, the example of the inferior classes, the fertility of the feeble-minded, the mentally defective, the poverty-stricken classes, should not be held up for emulation.... On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective. View quote
Margaret Sanger
[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave. View quote
Georges Bernanos
Workers of the world awaken. Break your chains, demand your rights. All the wealth you make is taken, by exploiting parasites. Shall you kneel in deep submission from your cradle to your grave? Is the height of your ambition to be a good and willing slave? View quote
Joe Hill
Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of Nature and its laws. Magic is the science of the Ancient Magi: and the Christian religion, which has imposed silence on the lying oracles, and put an end to the prestiges of the false Gods, itself reveres those Magi who came from the East, guided by a Star, to adore the Saviour of the world in His cradle. View quote
Albert Pike
My mother's only wish was to start a life in America because America was the cradle of every promise and opportunity. View quote
Masiela Lusha
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life. (Edvard Munch)
Every cradle asks us, "Whence?" and every coffin, "Whither?" The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Dead is the cradle of everything. View quote
Antoni Lange
Sancho Panza by name, is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
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. View quote
Charles Dickens