Cradlesong Quotes

#1. I want to remember warming your two a.m. bottle, clipping your locks, watching you be baptized, bathing you in the big porcelain sink ... how I often laid you against my chest and felt the cradlesong of your tiny breaths as you fell asleep ...

Carew Papritz

#2. That which we do not confront in ourselves we will meet as fate.

Carl Jung

#3. I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened.

Jock Sturges

#4. I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.

Billy Joel

#5. Open your eyes at last and see ... now I will open the book of the world for you,there are no words in it,just pictures

Oskar Kokoschka

#6. You act like a team player,you be nice to everyone for your entire life,then you die.

Stephan Pastis

#7. The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated.

Richard Cobden

#8. Obama is not the messiah any longer. He is now your standard, ordinary, everyday politician who lies, who breaks promises, who's in it for himself, who can't do anything on his own. He's not qualified. All of this is becoming known, sadly, too late.

Rush Limbaugh

#9. And Andy, gloomy and self-devouring, sat at his desk and chewed the cud of memory.

May Sarton

#10. I certainly never intended for myself an academic career and, were the academy to suffer, I'd just go do something else. I don't have a commitment to it or to really, frankly, almost any institution that assumes that it has to be stable forever.

Clay Shirky

#11. It is the entire euro zone system which is under threat at the moment, not just a few small countries anymore ... Our euro is under threat. The changing situation needs a quick and immediate reaction.

Iveta Radicova

#12. Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.

Robin Morgan

#13. You know what you learn when you study the legal system? Poor people pass down damage the way rich people pass down an inheritance.

Dan Chaon

#14. I am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?

Jorge Luis Borges

#15. Yes, Kat, I really want to get married."
"In a towel?"
His head tipped back, and he let out a deep laugh. "Maybe I'll put some clothes on.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#16. Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious.

Jalaluddin Rumi