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Countless black citizens in the South couldn't vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal. — John Doar

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

What then is the wisdom of the times called old? Is it the wisdom of gray hairs? No. It is the wisdom of the cradle. — Thomas Browne

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everyone there looks an original. — George Bernard Shaw

Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze. — William Cowper

Soul Sister
Evoking all my inner goodness
with bastions of time
I cradle your heart
sisterly into mine ... — Muse

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

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

The unity in every second of all time and all wandering mankind, all wandering womankind, all wandering children. — Kurt Vonnegut

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle. — Miguel De Cervantes

People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns. — Aleksandra Mir

I don't hold a grudge. I cradle it. I coddle it. I feed it fine cuts of meat and send it to the best schools. I nurture my grudges, Rollins. — Leigh Bardugo

The last time I saw you, I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle! — Lemony Snicket

The notion of there being something greater than humanity can strike fear in the bravest of soldiers and cradle courage in the palm of a child's hand. — Katlyn Charlesworth

The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave. — Edward Bellamy

From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom. — T.F. Hodge

By the time you were in your cradle," said Darcy, his voice laced with sarcasm, "I was already riding my first pony." "You — Jann Rowland

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are. — Kurt Vonnegut

Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc) — Diana Palmer

Whose tale more sad than thine, whose lot more dire? O Oedipus, discrowned head, Thy cradle was thy marriage bed. — Sophocles

Fate smiled and destiny laughed as she came to my cradle ... - Natalie Merchant, — R.J. Palacio

From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths. — Tom Rath

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system. — Mary Robinson

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion. — Horace

And to every man has been assigned a good and an evil angel; one assisting him and the other annoying him, from his cradle to his coffin. — Voltaire

Brain-washing starts in the cradle. — Arthur Koestler

No institution can become the cradle of leadership, until its teachers break their manacles of rugged dogmas. — Abhijit Naskar

A lot of the state-sponsored growth in India was just too fast. You went from cradle to Nirvana in a short period of time. — Jerry A. Webman

A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut

Cradle of Solitude
For we know not why our tribulations
are given as such
our fragile forms
created from the dust ... — Muse

I rocked the cradle of love. — Billy Idol

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

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

Child of our time, our times have robbed your cradle. Sleep in a world your final sleep has woken. — Eavan Boland

Empty Cradle, Broken Heart is written with great awareness and sensitivity. Deborah Davis gets it just right. — Sheila Kitzinger

Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave. — Samuel Hoffenstein

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

I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world. — Adolph Rupp

There is no "mid" about it. Life is a crisis from the cradle to the grave. — Graham Joyce

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

Star salt (the stars' reflection in a river) Sun cradle (the sea) Lemon kiss (everyone knew exactly what this meant!) Family anchor (the dinner table) — Nina George

Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in. — Dwight L. Moody

Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is. — Kurt Vonnegut

Pale January lay
In its cradle day by day
Dead or living, hard to say. — Alfred Austin

Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange to you. — Marcel Schwob

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds. — John Ortberg

Seek knowledge from the Cradle to the Grave — Anonymous

I realize from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night. — Mark Twain

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims. — Alexis De Tocqueville

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

This shall be home, where danger was my cradle, and all we have learned will guard us! — Brian W. Aldiss

This was the kack's cradle, icky-poo's bassinet. It was Death and Diarrhea, singing duet. — Jack Bunbury

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood. — Heinrich Heine

Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave. — Agatha Christie

Dead is the cradle of everything. — Antoni Lange

We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music. — Alain LeRoy Locke

Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth. — Heinrich Heine

He saw her seldom now, and the phantom of cradle songs had almost faded from his brain. — Stephen King

All history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle! — Clare Boothe Luce

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way. — Alice Childress

the world is the cradle and your trap. — Chuck Palahniuk

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave. — David McCullough

The cradle-to-grave welfare society enfeebles the citizenry to such a degree you can never generate enough money. — Mark Steyn

The left promises abortion rights and cradle to the grave protection, so the trick is to make it to the cradle. — Dennis Miller

Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future. — Marian Wright Edelman

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

But it is equally clear and certain that the Dionysos of Greek worship and of the drama was not a babe in the cradle. — Jane Ellen Harrison

The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat. — Wilma Scott Heide

Astronomy was the cradle of the natural sciences and the starting point of geometrical theories. — Cornelius Lanczos

And youth, though they see every day the cradle and grave shaped so alike, never believe death will happen to them. I told you it was a comedy. — Parke Godwin

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

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. — Mike Wallace

Right. As opposed to your cradle-robbing mentor. I don't really see you making much progress with him. — Richelle Mead

The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow into the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe that will grow to slay me. — Neil Gaiman

Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think. — Sylvia Plath

My cradle
was a shoe. — W.S. Merwin

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. — Edmund Burke

Sometimes you wondered why anyone bothered crawling out of the cradle when what lay ahead was so darn difficult. — Kate Atkinson

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless. — Walter Lippmann

Men are busy dying from the moment they're born but it's a crawl from the cradle to the grave. — Mark Lawrence

Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot remain in the cradle forever. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big. — Mary Antin

No damn cat, no damn Cradle. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Africa is the cradle of cosmic civilization. At the fullness of time of Africa, the entire world shall be saved. — Womi

Once more the storm is howling, and half hid
Under this cradle-hood and coverlid
My child sleeps on. — William Butler Yeats

They hold all their flaws between their bodies and cradle them with each kiss. — Hannah Moskowitz

The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further. — Joanna Macy

Little Newt snorted. "Religion!"
"Beg your pardon?" Castle said.
"See the cat?" asked Newt. "See the cradle? — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Until recently, he had been sustaining a fairly credible cover story about being a peaceful wine merchant in Cradle. — Neal Stephenson

Whoever had said that the hand rocked the cradle ruled the world must have has a Southern,born bred mother. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Maybe you won't rock a cradle, Muriel. Some women seem to prefer to rock the boat. — Helen Frost

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

The bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw. — Martin Luther

Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. — William Blake

In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death. — Victor Hugo

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours. — Mary Baker Eddy

It's nice to be nice. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.