Passing On Quotes

• Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Life, Time, Passing By

  Proverbs in Porcelain (1877) "Paradox of Time"

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• Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The premature death of millions is primarily traceable to this cause. Even among those who exercise care, it is a common mistake to avoid imaginary, and ignore the real dangers. And what is true of an individual also applies, more or less, to a people as a whole.

  Nikola Tesla

  Real, Mistake, Exercise

  Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.10, Lulu.com

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• They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun.

  Kami Garcia

  Games, Littles, Worried

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• The table is the number one place we pass on family stories and it's the knowledge of where your family came from that helps build self-esteem and resiliency in kids. When we stop having dinners, we stop passing on those stories. And, of course, when you make food at home you actually know what's in the food you are eating. It is the healthiest, greenest thing you can do!

  Laurie David

  Self Esteem, Home, Kids

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea.

  Harvey V. Fineberg

  Views, Sea, Orbit

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• The Treasury's plan has little for those outside of the financial industry. It is aimed at rescuing the same financial institutions that created this crisis with the sloppy underwriting and reckless disregard for the risk they were creating, taking or passing on to others.

  Richard Shelby

  Business, Creating, Risk

  "CNN Newsroom" with Heidi Collins, www.cnn.com. September 23, 2008.

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• If the professors don't start or continue to figure out who we are as a people, where we're going and where we've been, then in a sense we are not capable of passing on that knowledge to future generations.

  Khalil Gibran Muhammad

  People, Who We Are, Generations

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

  Questlove

  Giving Up, Mean, Persistence

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• I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on.

  Tom Hayden

  Home, Past, Grandparent

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• Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.

  A. B. Simpson

  Spring, Life Is, Christ

  A. B. Simpson (2006). “A Larger Christian Life: Expanding Your Spiritual Horizons”, p.36, Moody Publishers

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• Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they are useful, and therefore in temporary and partial relation to us, becoming burdensome when their utility is lost; or they are like wandering vagabonds, loitering for a moment on the outskirts of our recognition, and then passing on. A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Joy, Mind, Vagabonds

  Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Sadhana: The Realization of Life”, p.104, BookRix

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• Delegation is the passing on of actions, actions, not the passing on of responsibility.

  Eric Edmeades

  Leadership, Responsibility, Action

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• Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it...The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Thinking, Brave

  "Tributes to Steve Jobs", www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2011.

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• I am the recipient of many benefits that I do not deserve and did not earn. Someone else paid for them. I am grateful! How do I show my gratitude? By daily pouring into others and passing on to them the things that will allow them to run far and achieve beyond what I have done.

  John C. Maxwell

  Running, Gratitude, Grateful

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• Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Opportunity, Should, Passings

  "Jennifer Lopez's Spring 2013 'Glam Belleza Latina' Cover Interview: Her Beauty Playbook From A to Z". Interview with Veronica Chambers, www.glamour.com. March 4, 2013.

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• There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Country, Teacher, People

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• Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Teacher, Children, Book

  "Michael Morpurgo: We are failing too many boys in the enjoyment of reading" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2012.

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• I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.

  Helen Thomas

  War, Israel, Two

  "'An Unconscionable Legacy'–Veteran White House Correspondent Helen Thomas on the Bush Presidency". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. January 13, 2009.

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• There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, World, May

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• Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before dawn. He walks with her through the indigo markets that lie between South Cairo and her home. The beautiful songs of faith enter the air like arrows, one minaret answering another, as if passing on a rumor of the two of them as they walk through the cold morning air, the smell of charcoal and hemp already making the air profound. Sinners in a holy city.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Beautiful, Song, Morning

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• What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

  Haruki Murakami

  Two, One Day, Want

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• There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.

  James Dobson

  Children, Parent, Important

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• I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

  Diane Wakoski

  Long, Literature, Lines

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• Work hard, believe in your dreams, follow your dreams, don't give up, don't let failures hold you back. Those things were preached to me. They've taken a firm rooting system in my beliefs and what I'm passing on to my kids.

  Kevin Sorbo

  Dream, Giving Up, Believe

  "From “Hercules” to “Christmas Angel”: Kevin Sorbo talks about his personal journey and his role in GMC TV’s new yuletide film about the value of human kindness". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.

  Erykah Badu

  Home, Nursing, People

  "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

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