cycle of life Quotes

“Heavy matters! heavy matters! but look thee here, boy. Now bless thyself: thou mettest with things dying, I with things newborn.”

“In 1920 Roscoe Button’s first child was born. During the attendant festivities, however, no one thought it “the thing” to mention, that the little grubby boy, apparently about ten years of age who played around the house with lead soldiers and a miniature circus, was the new baby’s own grandfather.”

“It is as natural to die as it is to be born.”

“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.”