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Cradle Quotes

I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

"Big business becomes Mrs Robinson's affair" by Terry Slavin, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2004.

Brain-washing starts in the cradle.

Arthur Koestler (1981). “Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories”, Vintage

Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy a coffin.

Robert Green Ingersoll “Heretics and Heresies: From 'The Gods and Other Lectures'”, Library of Alexandria

Pale January lay In its cradle day by day Dead or living, hard to say.

Alfred Austin (1896). “Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin”

You get what you pay for.

"Expositio Canonis Missae" by Gabriel Biel, Lectio 86, 1576.

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

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

Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.10

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.97, Library of Alexandria

See the cat? See the cradle?

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.179, Dial Press

In this world, you get what you pay for.

Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.128, Dial Press