Martin Luther
Theologian
"The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid."
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Cradle
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Walt Whitman
Poet, Essayist
"Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing."
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either."
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is."
Kurt Vonnegut
Novelist, Satirist
"Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier."
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"See the cat? See the cradle?"
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"At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay."
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"In this world, you get what you pay for."
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"I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced."
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"Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John."
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"The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do."
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"Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing."
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"marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love."
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"Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as strangled snakes beside that of Hercules"
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"All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain."
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"[T]he cradle is shallower than the grave."
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"The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world."
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"Ambition's cradle oftenest is its grave"
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"The bible is the cradle that holds the Christ, without him it is nothing more than wood and straw."
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