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Quotes About Passage

Only three months and five days had passed since Darnley was murdered.
~ John Guy
This is the only place in the whole Rocky Mountain front where you can go from the Great Plains to the summit of the mountains without snaking your way up a mountain face or going through a tunnel. This one feature had more to do with the building of the West than any other factor. I don't diminish the importance of the Oregon Trail, but here you had everything going for you. This point hasn't been made before.
~ John McPhee
whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.
~ David Sedaris
The worst nights passed and the sun once again gave us hope to a new life, a new opportunity.
~ Unknown
Death is the last chapter in time but the first chapter in eternity.
~ Unknown
She hates the way the people part to let them past and then, behind them, regroup, erasing their passage, as if it were nothing, as if it never were. She wishes to scratch the ground, perhaps with a hoe, to score the streets beneath her, so that there will forever be a mark, for it always to be known that this way Hamnet came. He was here.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
She hates the way the people part to let them past and then, behind them, regroup, erasing their passage, as if it were nothing, as if it never were.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
before she passes into that other realm, before she breathes her last.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Puede ser que las velas sean como la gente buena, que van dejando algo lindo por donde pasan.
~ Unknown
In the spring he headed south, passing through the realm of his friend, Dagobert,
~ Unknown
and when the twilight of that ride is finally upon us, we will look at the trail we have taken and at the signs of our passage. And though our tears will be many, we will know that great lives have been lived, and that our memories will forever bind us together.
~ John Shors
You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.
~ John Steinbeck
God created every creature, including human, with a definite purpose. In a sense, every life is as significant any other life. Consequently, everyone of us is destined to play the unique role scripted individually for us by the creator. The play is always through as at the present time, but the oncoming scenarios are yet to be played, and they are never revealed in advance ...it's shrouded in suspense. Life, and its mysterious state of affairs keep going along with the passage of time.
~ Unknown
And Summers and Winters scattered like splinters And four or five years slipped away
~ Jimmy Buffet
Days go by like birds in the sky.
~ Unknown
Time is like an ocean, you can only hold a little in your hands.
~ Unknown
An exit from somewhere is an entry to somewhere.
~ Unknown
Much of the theology of the Bible is what we could call "task theology." It is theological truth brought to bear on specific life situations. Since biblical authors seldom deal comprehensively with a particular topic, we must be cautious before assuming that we have the whole truth or the last word in any particular passage.
~ Unknown
Terror thrives on the bottomless pit of imagination, and the imagination comes to life with the passage of time. Time is its vintner, the family its furtile field.
~ Unknown
Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move askew as fraught with sly designs
~ Unknown
Tlacey bought us passage on a public shuttle," Rami told me. "That could be a good sign, right?" "Sure," I said. It was a terrible sign.
~ Martha Wells
this saying appears in an inscription from a mosque at Fatehpur Sikri, India: "Jesus said, 'This world is a bridge. Pass over it, but do not build your dwelling there.
~ Unknown
Time flies whether you are having fun or not.
~ Unknown
Midnight has passed, so it is now officially tomorrow
~ Mary Jo Putney