Natalie Babbitt Quotes

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.

Time brings all things to pass.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

Even the Gods cannot change the past.

No nation can anticipate its term, nor delay it.

Nothing can stay great forever, and nothing can stay horrible forever.

Whatever happens, however fast it's supposed to happen, it'll happen.

You can't change what time has in store for you, as the only constant that I've known is change.

O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...

The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one.

Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.

Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

Fate,Time,Occasion,Chance, and Change? To these All things are subject but eternal love.