#cradle

The fortifications have never been attacked, nor has any sane man ever proposed any reason why they should be attacked. They have never defended anything. Fourteen hundred persons are said to have died while building them. Of these fourteen hundred, about half are said to have been executed in public for substandard zeal. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#humor #vonnegut #zeal #humor

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#cat-s #cradle #kurt #vonnegut #life

Never in his life had Edward been cradled like a baby. Abilene had not done it. Nor had Nellie. And most certainly, Bull had not. It was a singular sensation to be held so gently and yet so fiercely, to be stared down at with so much love. Edward felt the whole of his china body flood with warmth. (page 128) ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#love #touch #life

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#cradle #down #goes #mother #sings

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#anything #combined #cradle #filled #hard

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#been #better #could #cradle #first

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. ↗

— Umberto Guidoni

#bay #between #cargo #cradle #into

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. ↗

— Joseph Hall

#birth #borders #cradle #grave #our

Calmness is the cradle of power. ↗

— J. G. Holland

#cradle #power

From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#experience #grave #growth #joy #life