hand that rocks the cradle
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As Desmond Tutu put it in an interview from the film, “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.”
From Newsweek • Sep. 24, 2012
The hand that rocks the cradle -- and cradles the phone, and sweeps the floor, and writes the memo and meets the deadline -- doesn't have time to reach out and save the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hand that rocks the cradle is Walt Disney's�and who can say what effect it is having on the world?
From Time Magazine Archive
Through the years, though, more and more women have be come oriented to voting, and with each election the hand that rocks the cradle pulls more and more voting levers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Verily, 'the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world,' through the love of good which the mother hopes for her child.
From Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks by Griswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph)
