Famous quotes containing the word cradle:
“It is engendred in the eyes,
With gazing fed; and fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies.
Let us all ring fancys knell.
Ill begin itDing, dong, bell.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,
Out of the mocking-birds throat, the musical shuttle,
Out of the Ninth-month midnight,
Over the sterile sands and the fields beyond, where the child
leaving his bed wandered alone, bareheaded, barefoot”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
“Thou blind mans mark, thou fools self-chosen snare,
Fond Fancys scum and dregs of scattered thought,
Band of all evils, cradle of causeless care,
Thou web of will whose end is never wrought;
Desire! desire, I have too dearly bought
With price of mangled mind thy worthless ware;”
—Sir Philip Sidney (15541586)