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Quotes About Cycle

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.
~ Pietro Aretino
Fill the cup, and fill the can: Have a rouse before the morn: Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.
~ Stephen King
Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.
~ Laozi
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
~ George Santayana
God created dinosaurs. God destroyed dinosaurs. God created Man. Man destroyed God. Man created dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man...Woman inherits the earth.
~ Michael Crichton
I wish the dryer were running, because man, I could use a good...tumble dry."-Eve Rosser
~ Rachel Caine
The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.
~ Robert Jordan
Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.
~ Heraclitus
I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust.
~ Demetri Martin
Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it?
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.
~ George Herbert
The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.
~ George MacDonald
The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.
~ Robert Jordan
Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.
~ Homer
As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.
~ Homer
The changing year's successive plan Proclaims mortality to man.
~ Horace
The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.
~ Isaac Watts
The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth And then returning to earth, forever alternating.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.
~ John Milton
Getting the big things right that make all the money, that's long cycle, really executing in a way that allows you to do it, that's short cycle.
~ Steve Ballmer