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Quotes About Cradle

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.
~ Harry Seidler
It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
they Could Not vote for a man unless he Could make a hand well Said he Boys if that is all i am shure of your votes he took hold of the Cradle Led the way all the Round with Perfect ease the Boys was satisfide and i dont think he Lost a vote in the Croud
~ Douglas L. Wilson
Satan has declared war on motherhood. He knows that those who rock the cradle can rock his earthly empire. And he knows that without righteous mothers loving and leading the next generation, the Kingdom of God will fail.
~ Sheri L. Dew
Silent waters rocking on the morning of our birth, like an empty cradle waiting to be filled. And from the heart of God the Spirit moved upon the earth, like a mother breathing life into her child.
~ Gordon Lightfoot
Nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
We are born in debt, owing the world a death. This is the shadow that darkens every cradle. Trauma is what happens when you catch a surprise glimpse of that darkness, the coming annihilation not only of the body and the mind but also, seemingly, of the world.
~ David J. Morris
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!
~ Aleksis Kivi
The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
~ Martin Luther
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
Child of our time, our times have robbed your cradle. Sleep in a world your final sleep has woken.
~ Eavan Boland
I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.
~ Yves Behar
The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive years of use with many generations of babies.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.
~ Diablo Cody
It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.
~ Kate Brown
During the first few months of an infant's life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head on the pillow, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education must begin in the cradle.
~ Jean Piaget
If you look at the whole time I was in the band, I only did, like, three solo albums - two, really. 'Out Of The Cradle,' I had already left because we'd done 'Tango In The Night,' and it was sort of the logical extension of crazy in terms of everyone getting ready to hit the wall with their habits.
~ Lindsey Buckingham
Valkyrie, if there was ever a cradle to be robbed . . . Gods, just look at him.
~ Kresley Cole
The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
~ yeats william butler v
I can't reach the stirrups," Abigail said. "Don't need to. Scoot forward and make room." He put his foot in the stirrup. "For what?" Swinging his leg over, he settled behind Abigail. "Oh." She squirmed forward, but only got so far. She finally settled in the cradle of his thighs in a way he found most disturbing.
~ Denise Hunter
If architectural excess were a religion, Hunt was surely its patron saint, placing the most ornate of roofs over the heads of the city's elite from cradle to crypt.
~ Denise Kiernan
The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.
~ Don DeLillo, White Noise
Custo relinquished her carefully, but seemed relieved to let go of her, to let go of Death's child. "Okay," Adam said. He wasn't afraid of her. He'd been looking, praying, for Death for so long that he welcomed the chance to cradle her close—his means to Jacob's end, his tool of vengeance
~ Jennifer Ashley
One thing I designed, I've done a lot of work on improving kosher slaughter. They need to make a head holding device that would go on the end of the conveyer. A normal kosher head holding device, the thing is like a cradle that lifts up the head. If I have it on the end of a conveyer, how do I make this work?
~ Robert Greene