Fate

Famous quotes containing the word fate:

“To die for one’s country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

“This generation is very sure to plant corn and beans each new year precisely as the Indians did centuries ago and taught the first settlers to do, as if there were a fate in it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“... fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)