Rockabye Quotes & Sayings

Rockabye Baby, in the treetop Dont you know a treetop is no safe place to rock? And who put you up there, and your cradle too? Baby, I think someone down here has got it in for you! — Shel Silverstein

I am more and more convinced that true revolutionaries must perceive the revolution, because of its creative and liberating nature, as an act of love. For me, the revolution, which is not possible without a theory of revolution - and therefore science - is not irreconcilable with love. — Che Guevera

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth ... — Marcel Proust

When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate. — Brian Ferneyhough

I've never been able to predict the future of anything. — Bob Edwards

The source of our love comes from within. No one out there is that source. It makes sense to go to the source. — Susan Jeffers

I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument. — Madonna Ciccone

That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part. — Anne Lamott

I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits. — Florence Welch

God, you'd think that great corners in life should come with a warning sign at the side of the proverbial road, a little yellow number that announced which direction you were going to go in, and maybe offered a "reduce speed" kind of advice. — J.R. Ward

All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us. — Frederick C. Beiser

We'd had small lives, populated by a longing for something more substantial than dirt roads and small dreams. — Kevin Powers

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another. — Anne Rice

I always enjoyed acting. My aunt was actually an actress. — Felicia Day

Winnicott also cites the hostile lullabies mothers sing to babies, who fortunately do not understand the words. For example: Rockabye, Baby, on the treetop, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, And down will come baby, cradle and all. — Irvin D. Yalom

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. — Richard Bach