Rockabye Baby Quotes

#1. Winnicott also cites the hostile lullabies mothers sing to babies, who fortunately do not understand the words. For example: Rockabye, Baby, on the treetop, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, And down will come baby, cradle and all.

Irvin D. Yalom

#2. Rockabye Baby, in the treetop Dont you know a treetop is no safe place to rock? And who put you up there, and your cradle too? Baby, I think someone down here has got it in for you!

Shel Silverstein

#3. For most people to be happy, there has to be a person, place, or thing involved in their happiness. In true happiness, there are no things involved. It's a natural state. You will abide in that state forever.

Robert Adams

#4. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?

Nina Simone

#5. Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.

John Wesley

#6. I have to stop looking back because the more I do, the weaker I get.

Sehar Raza

#7. We must always be careful of the actions we take, for there are always unintended consequences. Sometimes they are serendipitous, other times they are appalling, but those consequences are always there. We must tread lightly in this world ... until we are sure of foot.

Neal Shusterman

#8. The minimum wage is something that F.D.R. put in place a long time ago during the Great Depression. I don't think it worked then. It didn't solve any problems then and it hasn't solved any problems in 50 years.

John Raese

#9. Watch out for people who feel weak. They may want to feel strong one day and you might not survive that moment.

Alina Bronsky

#10. But do not you see," answered Martin, "that he likewise dislikes everything he possesses? It was an observation of Plato, long since, that those are not the best stomachs that reject, without distinction, all sorts of food.

Voltaire

#11. What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.

Roddy Doyle

#13. It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly

Al Pacino

#14. Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls.

Bruce Barton

#15. For when a child is born the mother also is born again.

Gilbert Parker

#16. The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Edmund Burke

#17. Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

Terry Pratchett