Quotes About Passage

One of the ghosts knows where the passage is!" I told Pritkin. He looked surprised and I scowled. Just because I didn't know seven ways to kill a guy with my elbow didn't make me completely useless.

That'll be one gold coin per passenger," he said. "Living gods, hand the coin directly to me. Dead mortals, have a relative slip it under your tongue.

She realized what a gate was: it was an indication that you had left one pace and were entering another.

Now he goes along the dark road, thither whence they say no one returns.

Tedni so neznansko hitro minevali, kakor da bi bil prehod v jesen najpomembnejša naloga.

How quickly a year passes, like a mouthful of food snatched from the maw of eternity.

Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the thrill of making an anthology includes the opportunity to become such a coauthor.

His sextant is a natural extension of any seaman navigator; virtually a part of him. Even today, in a maritime world of satellite precision fixing, the sextants are as much a necessity as they were aboard the Indiamen of old. No well-run merchantman will make an ocean passage without each and every one of her deck officers reporting to the bridge before midday, sextant in hand in preparation for 'sights'.

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.

An expository sermon is designed for the study of the specific details, context, and development of a biblical passage in order to encourage and enable listeners to love God and to help them understand how to apply the truths of his Word to their lives.

the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt. From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first invoked for favorable winds. Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.

El mundo es un barco que pasa temporalmente, sin realizar un viaje completo.

L. 547. The terms made use of in this line, and in 481, may appear somewhat coarse, as addressed by one Goddess to another: but I assure the English reader that in this passage

I realized that life means waiting, enduring the passage of time. Nothing ever quite meets our expectations, yet as long as we are alive, time flows on, and everything eventually comes to pass.

There is now nothing which more brings home to me the passage of the years than to meet a grown man who does not recall, as his strongest memory, the horror that the news produced

Then she heard him say, "One!" And she realized that a third of her lifetime had just passed, never to return.

When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from - there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that's essentially what it is.

In my experience, young people fighting for the passage of the DREAM Act and to prevent the deportation of those who are eligible are among the most committed and fearless advocates for change in this country.

I like books that explore identity and youth culture or rites of passage.

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

The tall, leaning buildings to either side shrouded the narrow passage in shadow.

The dead were gone through Hood's Gate. The living were left with the pain of their passage.

Drunken oblivion was, each time, a small, temporary death. Hood walked where the self once stood, and the wake of the god's passage sickened mortal flesh afterwards.