1, The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. 

2, What's learnt in the cradle lasts till the tomb. 

3, Life is a battle from cradle to grave. 

4, What is learned in the cradle lasts [is carried] till [to] the grave [tomb]. 

5, What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave [tomb]. 

6, What is learnt in the cradle lasts (or is carried) to the grave. 

7, The baby slumbered in his cradle.

8, The child slept soundly in her cradle.

9, Greece was the cradle of western civilization.

10, The nurse rocked the cradle.

11, I dropped the receiver back in the cradle.

12, She rocked the cradle to quieten the child.

13, What is learned in the cradle lasts till the grave.

14, What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave.

15, She lived in the same village from the cradle to the grave.

16, Greece was the cradle of Western culture.

17, Tokyo was the cradle of Japanese culture.

18, The baby slept peacefully in its cradle.

19, The searchlights wove a cat's cradle of light.

20, He fixed the towing cradle round the hull.

21, She replaced the receiver on the cradle.

22, They knew each other from the cradle.

23, The baby was rocked asleep in the cradle.

24, Athens is often regarded as the cradle of democracy.

25, She rocked the baby to sleep in its cradle.

26, Fossil records indicate that Africa was the cradle of early human evolution.

27, Mali is the cradle of some of Africa's richest civilizations.

28, The bond of brotherhood was one to last from the cradle to the grave.

29, As a clergyman's son he'd imbibed a set of mystical beliefs from the cradle.

30, He sat on his heels,[http://sentencedict.com/cradle.html] weaving an intricate cat's cradle of thread for the ship's rigging.