Cradle Quotes - Page 3

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Complicated, Machinery, Unpredictable

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.66, Dial Press

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• I would literally climb out of the cradle while my parents slept, go and crawl off. I did this a couple of times apparently. I'd cross the road and into someone's house, wake them up banging pots and pans in the kitchen.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Couple, House, Parent

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• We all have our demons to deal with, Little Pigeon. It's when we cherish them - cradle them to our breasts and feed them, day after day-that's when they curdle our souls.

  Susan Fletcher

  Soul, Littles, Pigeons

  Susan Fletcher (1999). “Shadow spinner”

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• the world is the cradle and your trap.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  World, Traps

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• Acurrúcate en los brazos de Dios. Cuando sufras, cuando te sientas solo, excluido, deja que Él te acune, te consuele, te asegure que Su poder y Su amor son suficientes.

  Kay Arthur

  Lonely, Hurt, Loneliness

  Kay Arthur (1995). “My Savior, My Friend: A Daily Devotional”, Harvest House Pub

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• 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, Girl, Years

  Jane Austen (2006). “8 Books in 1: Jane Austen's Complete Novels. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Lady Susan, and Love an”, p.603, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• La mano que mece la cuna es la mano que gobierna el mundo.

  Mike Wallace

  Día de la Madre, Mamá, Maternidad

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• All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lying, Writing, Shameless

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press

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• La Biblia es la cuna donde se acuesta a Cristo.

  Martin Luther

  Christian Inspirational, Christ

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• Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lying, Book, Bokonon

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• She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Thinking, Fool

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.5, Dial Press

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• My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician.

  Toots Thielemans

  Sunday, Parent, Musician

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• Vive según las inofensivas falsedades que te hacen valiente y amable y sano y feliz.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Valiente, Sana, Amable

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• Lo que una madre canta a la cuna llega hasta el ataúd.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Madre, Guerra, Ser Madre

  Henry Ward Beecher William Drysdale (1887). "Proverbios del Púlpito de Plymouth"

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• Porque la naturaleza da a cada tiempo y a cada estación algunas bellezas propias; y de la mañana a la noche, como de la cuna a la tumba, no es más que una sucesión de cambios tan suaves y fáciles que apenas podemos marcar su progreso.

  Charles Dickens

  Buenos Días, Belleza, Tiempo

  Charles Dickens (1839). "Vida y aventuras de Nicholas Nickleby", p.207

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• Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,
  Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle,
  . . . .
  A reminiscence sing.

  Walt Whitman

  Bird, Musical, Rocking Out

  "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" l. 1 (1881)

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• From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

  Henry Adams

  Running, Art, Philosophy

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.15, Booklassic

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• Si uno siente la necesidad de algo grandioso, algo infinito, algo que le haga sentir consciente de Dios, no necesita ir muy lejos para encontrarlo. Creo que veo algo más profundo, más infinito, más eterno que el océano en la expresión de los ojos de un bebé cuando se despierta por la mañana y arrulla o ríe porque ve el sol brillar sobre su cuna.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Baby, Morning, Ocean

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). "Las cartas de Vincent Van Gogh a su hermano, 1872-1886: Con una memoria de su cuñada, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ..."

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• The few have said, Think! The many have said, Believe! The first doubt was the womb and cradle of progress, and from the first doubt, man has continued to advance.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Creer, Hombres, Pensar

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.51, Library of Alexandria

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• Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.

  Agatha Christie

  Giving, Teeth, Trouble

  AGATHA CHRISTIE (1980). “MISS MARPLE MEETS MURDER”

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• Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another ruler with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.

  Khalil Gibran

  Art, Strong, Farewell

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• Venimos a este mundo con un destino específico y personal. Tenemos un trabajo que hacer, una vocación que cumplir, un yo en el que convertirnos. Somos lo que somos desde la cuna, y estamos atados a ello.

  Steven Pressfield

  Trabajo, Destino, Ser

  Steven Pressfield (2002). "La guerra del arte: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles", p.146, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Sólo la moral es eterna. Todo lo demás es globo y burbuja desde la cuna hasta la tumba.

  David McCullough

  Balloons, Morality, Graves

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.341, Simon and Schuster

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• Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hija, Madre, Bebé

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• We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.

  E. W. Howe

  Freedom, Book, Should

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