Quotes About Cycle

When a wolf descends upon your flocks, all you gain by killing him is a short respite, for other wolves will come,

Archmaester Rigney once wrote that history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again, he said.

Yet in its own way, death is the most natural thing of all

For the oak recalls the acorn, the acorn dreams the oak, the stump lives in them both.

Under the sea the old fish eat the young fish.

One war ends, another begins.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

Time feeds on us. We are food for time.

even death has a beginning, that it's simply another of life's journeys.

Each time I leave here [Ghost Ranch] it is like a Death, and each time that I return it is a Birth.

Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral.

I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

If you're on the merry-go-round, you have to go round.

It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it's one damn thing over and over.

Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one Excepting February alone: Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.

The sun is new each day.

Time is the devourer of all things.

The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

Madness is part of all of us, all the time, and it comes and goes, waxes and wanes.

Autumn to winter, winter into spring. Spring, into summer, summer into fall, - So rolls the changing year, and so we change; -Motion so swift, we know not that we move.

Spring is a virgin, Summer a mother, Autumn a widow, and Winter a stepmother.

A leap year Is never a good sheep year.

Year of snow Fruit will grow.