Passing It Quotes

• Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Strong, Time, Passing By

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IV, (43), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.

  Paracelsus

  Inspirational, Wind, Time Passing

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.79, Princeton University Press

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• Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark - spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving.

  Martin Amis

  Time, Moving, Sparks

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• Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new... but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

  Paracelsus

  Time, Wind, Design

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• Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Time, Past, Gone

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.264

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• Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Life, Work, Stories

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• The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always be a twelve-month between the ingross-ing a bill & passing it: that it should then be offered to its passage without changing a word: and that if circum-stances should be thought to require a speedier passage, it should take two thirds of both houses instead of a bare majority.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thinking, Law, Two

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.363, Cambridge University Press

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• The current disfavor into which socialism has fallen has spurred.... the frenzy to proclaim oneself a liberal. Many writers today have recourse to the strategem of inventing for oneself a liberalism according to one's own tastes and passing it off as an evolution from past ideas.

  Ralph Raico

  Philosophy, Past, Ideas

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• In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

  Francis Bacon

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Anger

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.515

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• I don't want this music to die.The older people are passing it on to the younger generation so the younger generation can pass it on to the next generation.

  Vy Higginsen

  People, Next, Generations

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Creativity, Race

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• Every one ought to study the Bible with two ends in view: his own growth in knowledge and grace, and passing it on to others. We ought to have four ears,- two for ourselves, and two for other people. My Bible is worth a good deal to me because I have so many passages marked that, if I am called upon to speak at any time, I am ready. We ought to be prepared to pass around heavenly thoughts and truths, just as we do the coin of the realm.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Views, Two

  Dwight L. Moody (1958). “Talks to Christians”, p.48, Moody Publishers

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• I still have faith in people. But that is getting increasingly harder to maintain. I just don't see many people today choosing love. I see people passing it up a lot. Foreclosing on it, deferring it, sabotaging, letting go.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Letting Go, People, Have Faith

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• The blues records of each decade explain something about the philosophical basis of our lives as black people. ... Blues is a basis of historical continuity for black people. It is a ritualized way of talking about ourselves and passing it on.

  Sherley Anne Williams

  Music, Philosophical, Talking

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• This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more tempered, becomes much wiser over a period time passing. It is not something that is injected into him by a needle. It is not something that comes on a wave of flashing, explosive light one night and say, 'Huzzah! Eureka! I've got it!' and then proceeds to write the great American novel in eleven days. It doesn't work that way. It's a long, tedious, tough, frustrating process, but never, ever be put aside by the fact that it's hard.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Night, Light

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• I hate to say it, and Apple never likes it, but I love anything that's hacker oriented. I don't like passing it onto others, or getting things for free. I don't like stealing music one bit, at all.

  Steve Wozniak

  Hate, Apples, Likes

  "How Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 22, 2009.

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• When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you . . . their spirits are walking around in me, so they're still here and passing it on to others.

  Miles Davis

  Musician, Spirit, Great Music

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• The small town is passing. It was the incubator that hatched all our big men, and that's why we haven't got as many big men today as we used to have. Take every small-town-raised leader out of business and you would have nobody left running it but vice-presidents.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Business, Men

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• If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.

  Samuel West

  Play, Torches, Done

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• To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.

  Nat Turner

  Mind, Saws, Would Be

  Nat Turner (2011). “The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia”, p.18, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

  Mitch Albom

  Positive, Sacrifice, Losing

  "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". Book by Mitch Albom, 2003.

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• An empty frame, in which the picture is always changing, makes a statement about how time is always passing. It doesn't really stop, even in a single image. I t just feels that way.

  Sarah Dessen

  Way, Empty, Feels

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.239, Penguin

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• Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Circles, Passing, Passings

  "100 Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, p. 409, www.counterpunch.org. 2006.

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• When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.

  Jeannette Walls

  Suicide, Pain, Suicidal

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• ...fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. if it did, no good person would ever die." "Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family you have yet to come to know." "sacrifice is a part of life. it is supposed to be. it's not something to regret. it's something to aspire to. little sacrifices. big sacrifices. a mother works so her son can go to school. a daughter moves home to take care of her sick father. Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. you're just passing it on to someone else.

  Mitch Albom

  Mother, Daughter, Regret

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