USS Du Pont (DD-941) - Fate

Famous quotes containing the word fate:

“Then die that she
The common fate of all things rare
May read in thee;”
—Edmund Waller (1606–1687)

“The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls,—the worst man is as strong as the best at that game; it does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot- box once a year, but on what kind of a man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“... it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)