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  • Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

    Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.11, Dial Press
  • After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

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

    Space   Nadir   Smog  
  • How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

    Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.66, Dial Press
  • Who sleeps at night? No one is sleeping.
 In the cradle a child is screaming.
 An old man sits over his death, and anyone
 young enough talks to his love, breathes 
into her lips, looks into her eyes.

    Children   Sleep   Eye  
    Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.48, Carcanet
  • One of the [Million Mom] marchers said 'the hands that rock the cradle rule this nation.' I thought, 'no Madame, the hands that rock the cradle rule our families and governments and corporations. The hands that wrote the Constitution rule this nation'.

    Mom   Rocks   Government  
    "Charlton Heston Speech Highlights Second Day of NRA Convention". transcripts.cnn.com. May 20, 2000.
  • What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

    Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”
  • We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope.

    Life   Music   Hope  
  • 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’s New Hampshire primary speech" by Felicia Sonmez, www.washingtonpost.com. January 10, 2012.
  • At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.

    Summer   Song   Rocks  
    Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”
  • Love is the only bow on Life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance on the quiet tomb. It is the mother of Art—inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart— builder of every home—kindler of every fire on every hearth. It was the first to dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody, for Music is the voice of Love.

    Love   Mother   Dream  
    "Lectures and Essays (a Selection)".
  • In this world, you get what you pay for.

    World   Pay   Cradle  
    Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.128, Dial Press
  • Whoever had said that the hand rocked the cradle ruled the world must have has a Southern,born bred mother.

    Mother   Hands   Southern  
  • Brain-washing starts in the cradle.

    Brain   Cradle   Washing  
    Arthur Koestler (1981). “Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories”, Vintage
  • 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.

    War   Loss   Rights  
    Jefferson Davis (1938). “The rise and fall of the Confederate government”
  • 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.

    "William McDonough: Godfather of Green". WNYC Studio 360, March 18, 2008.
  • 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.

    Government   Risk   Today  
  • 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.

    "The Eugenic Value of Birth Control Propaganda". "Birth Control Review", (p. 5), October 1921.
  • Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.

    Dream   World   Illusion  
    Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.120, Jazzybee Verlag
  • What happens: events interiors, snatch them from the cradle, from the source. I want to watch watching arrive. I want to watch arrivances. I want to find the root of needing to eat. And taste it: work of sweat / sleep.

    Sleep   Sweat   Roots  
  • Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?

    Wise   Baby   Kings  
    Interview with Mikal Gilmore, www.rollingstone.com. April 23, 2014.
  • The child is not mine as the first was, I cannot sing it to rest, I cannot lift it up fatherly And bliss 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.

    Children   Lying   Light  
    "The Changeling". Poem by James Russell Lowell, 1879.
  • There are only two places where the powerful and great in this world lose their courage, tremble in the depths of their souls, and become truly afraid. These are the manger and the cross of Jesus Christ....No priest, no theologian stood at the cradle of Bethlehem. And yet, all Christian theology finds its beginnings in the miracle of miracles, that God became human.

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jana Riess, O. C. Dean, Jr. (2010). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”
  • It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Perhaps Madame de Maintenon would never have mounted a throne had not her cradle been rocked in a prison. Surmounted obstacles not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles; for virtue must be learnt, though, unfortunately, some of the vices come as it were by inspiration.

  • The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. It is the source of all true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.

    Life   Art   Fundamentals  
  • It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.

    William Kingdon Clifford (1999). “The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays”, Pyr Books
  • The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of the Arabs. The cradle of European awakening is not Italy. It is the Muslim Spain.

    Europe   Spain   Culture  
  • Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.

    Heart   Fate   Night  
    Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult
  • Let me cradle myself back Into the darkness Of the half shapes ... Of the cauled beginnings ... Let me stir the attar of unused air, Elusive ... ironically fragrant As a dead queen's kerchief ... Let me blow the dust from off you ... Resurrect your breath Lying limp as a fan In a dead queen's hand.

    Queens   Lying   Blow  
    Lola Ridge (1920). “Sun-up, and Other Poems”
  • Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

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