You are a comic little figure, hopping from the cradle to the grave. Yes, that is our trouble--we take ourselves too seriously; but Caprona should be a sure cure for that." She paused and laughed.
"What other sort of soul, then, would you expect from `a comic little figure hopping from the cradle to the grave'?" I inquired.
It broke; it was resumed broken, not marching once from the
cradle to the grave. The sadness of the incomplete--the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art--throbbed in its disjected phrases, and made the nerves of the audience throb.
Our mental existences, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the
cradle to the grave. Just as we should travel DOWN if we began our existence fifty miles above the earth's surface.'
"Then you get it all back," he assured her; but in his heart he was wondering about God, that allowed so many suckers to be born and that did not break up the gambling game by which they were robbed from the
cradle to the grave.
"The Grand Difficulty of humanity from the
cradle to the grave -- Money." He slowly winked his green eye; sighed with deep feeling; and buried his insolvent hands in his unproductive pockets.
I can only offer this excuse for myself; and I can only admire that invariable preservation of dignity, and that strictly logical consistency of conduct which distinguish every man and woman who may read these lines, in every emergency of their lives from the
cradle to the grave.
But they were scarcely less beautiful in their slow decline, than they had been in their prime; for nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the
cradle to the grave, is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy, that we can scarcely mark their progress.
From the
cradle to the grave, fighting, rightly understood, is the business, the real highest, honestest business of every son of man.
The one million staff in the NHS - whether midwives, nurses, doctors or hospital porters - who provide
cradle to the grave care are the very backbone of the service.
It is there to provide treatment for the population from the
cradle to the grave, this is what we pay for out of our National Insurance.
The NHS is all about care from the
cradle to the grave and general practitioners are an intrinsic part of that.