#cradle

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#changes #cradle #easy #every #every time

Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire. ↗

— William Blake

#cradle #desire #infant #murder #nurse

Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#history #imagine #kosovo #part #serbia

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living. ↗

— James Broughton

#cradle #his #knows #life #living

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#always #certain #certain things #cradle #figure

If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#any #cradle #domestic #down #economic

My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in my cradle, I already was imitating the gestures of the musician. ↗

— Toots Thielemans

#cradle #each #gestures #had #i

A lot of the state-sponsored growth in India was just too fast. You went from cradle to Nirvana in a short period of time. ↗

— Jerrry A. Webman

#fast #growth #india #just #lot

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. ↗

— Israel Zangwill

#continuation #cradle #danger #glamour #imitation

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

#abyss #between #brief #common #common sense