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 was sure to rock the boat.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
It's a truism that the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.
From Time Magazine Archive
The cradle could not be made to rock easier, or, at least, not much easier, without strengthening the hands of the poor household, for the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world—to that extent.
From Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
