Rocks The Cradle Quotes

#1. I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#2. One of the [Million Mom] marchers said 'the hands that rock the cradle rule this nation.' I thought, 'no Madame, the hands that rock the cradle rule our families and governments and corporations. The hands that wrote the Constitution rule this nation'.

Charlton Heston

#3. Always count your blessings, even if you have to count them through your tears

Eleanor Brownn

#4. Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.

William Cowper

#5. When doubt speaks, despise him.
When fear speaks, defy him.
When failure speaks, deride him.
When confusion speaks, disregard him.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

Glen Campbell

#7. At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.

Henry Ward Beecher

#8. 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

#9. Everything is a version of something else.

Patrick Marber

#10. Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

Heinrich Heine

#11. Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong.

Richard P. Feynman

#12. Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.

Marian Wright Edelman

#13. You know your marriage is in trouble when your wife would rather listen to a cackling drug lord than accept your apology.

Red Tash

#14. There was definitely a moment, a time after 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle', when I did get offered a lot of women in jeopardy-type roles. But I couldn't do it, physically, I just couldn't. But now I know what I know, I wonder if I should have played the whole fame game a little more.

Annabella Sciorra

#15. If the Reddit community cannot learn to balance authenticity and compassion, it may be a great website, but it will never be a truly great community.

Sam Altman

#16. What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.

Epictetus

#17. Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.

Dwight L. Moody

#18. The Nephelle Philosophy

Sarah J. Maas

#19. All history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

Clare Boothe Luce

#20. It looked like a love poem, and I was jealous of whoever inspired the sort of devotion he must have felt to make those words so permanent

Tammara Webber

#21. The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat.

Wilma Scott Heide

#22. The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. - VLADIMIR NABOKOV, Speak, Memory: A Memoir

Sheldon Solomon

#23. A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

William Greider

#24. The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

Mike Wallace