Cradle Quotes

Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.
Mitt Romney

War, Government, Today

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
Martin Luther

Christ, Bible, Laid

We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.
Barack Obama

Time, History, War

Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.
Mitt Romney

Life, Good, Government

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Henry Ward Beecher

Mother, Down, Goes

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

Nature, Time, Morning

Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
William Blake

Desire, Nurse, Infant

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, Beauty, Girl

To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.
James Dean

Thinking, Before, Actor

Calmness is the cradle of power.
J. G. Holland

Power, Calmness

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.
Vladimir Nabokov

Two, Light, Sense

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
Bertolt Brecht

Underwear, Coffin

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
Joseph Hall

Death, Birth, Stands

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

History, Started, Imagine

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
Alfred Adler

Truth, Freedom, Him

The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Humanity, Cannot, Earth

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.
Norman Wisdom

Life, After, Might

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

Often, Space, Angeles

If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
Salma Hayek

Down, Give, America

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
Edvard Munch

Life, Death, Since

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.
Robert Duvall

Positive, Individual, Journey

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
Anthony Trollope

Hard, Luxury, Idleness

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
Edvard Munch

Life, Death, Insanity

What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
Georges Bernanos

Truth, Sleep, Matter

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
James Broughton

Life, Living, Worth

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.
Derek Jacobi

Business, Youth, Emotions

Descendants of New England pioneers are proud of their ancestry and glad to proclaim the fact that so far as the United States are concerned, New England is in deed the cradle of religious liberty.
Paul Harris

Liberty, Proud, Fact

Among our many crimes as an imperialistic exploiter of other nations' cultures, stealing their movies ranks lower than selling them cigarettes but higher than killing their game. If you've seen big stupid American versions of France's 'Three Men and a Cradle' or, recently, Japan's 'Shall We Dance?,' you can only mutter: 'Guilty, guilty, guilty.'
Stephen Hunter

Men, Movies, Stupid

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.
John Nelson Darby

Death, Character, Different

You know, I think that the Republicans have made it really clear that they want to end the so-called social safety net from cradle to grave.
Gwen Moore

End, Made, Social

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