A Quote by William Ross Wallace

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

William Ross Wallace

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Cradle Hand Rocks Rules World

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William Ross Wallace
American - Poet
1819 - May 5, 1881

A mighty power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled,For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.

William Ross Wallace

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.

Mike Wallace

There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

Glen Campbell

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

Clare Boothe Luce

Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.

Marian Wright Edelman

The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat.

Wilma Scott Heide

There was definitely a moment, a time after 'The Hand That Rocks the Cradle', when I did get offered a lot of women in jeopardy-type roles. But I couldn't do it, physically, I just couldn't. But now I know what I know, I wonder if I should have played the whole fame game a little more.

Annabella Sciorra

When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders urging me to speech. I hear Patrick Henry cry to the Burgsses, 'Is Life so dear, or Peace so sweet, to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?' I hear Sojourner Truth tell me that the hand that rocks the cradle can also rock the boat, and William Lloyd Garrison say, 'I am in earnest, I will not be silenced.'

Sara Paretsky

I thought the idea Jim [Carrey] had, which was to do a comedic version of movies like The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and Unlawful Entry, was really funny. The movie was a little lighter when we first came on, a little more like What About Bob? or something.

Judd Apatow

Excuses are the cradle ... that Satan rocks men off to sleep in.

Dwight L. Moody

The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts; they do not mean to lie; but, taking no pains to be exact, they give you very false accounts. A great part of their language is proverbial; if anything rocks at all, they say it rocks like a cradle; and in this way they go on.

Samuel Johnson

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

Heinrich Heine

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

Henry Ward Beecher

Whoever had said that the hand rocked the cradle ruled the world must have has a Southern,born bred mother.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the castle but the cradle of Christ; and, in rocking that cradle to the rhythm of love, to swing the whole world back into the beat of the Music of Eternal Life.