Quotes About Passing

reasons that one generation must give way to the next, as made clear in another of the letters Jefferson wrote to the equally venerable John Adams near the end of his life: "There is a ripeness of time for death, regarding others as well as ourselves, when it is reasonable we should drop off, and make room for another growth. When we have lived our generation out, we should not wish to encroach on another.

Vision" I love all things that pass: their briefness is Music that fades on transient silences. Winds, birds, and glittering leaves that flare and fall— They fling delight across the world; they call To rhythmic-flashing limbs that rove and race… A moment in the dawn for Youth's lit face; A moment's passion, closing on the cry— 'O Beauty, born of lovely things that die!

The Mad Arab speaks of the Gates several times in his opening remarks, and then goes on to give quite emphatic instructions as to how the Gate should be opened, and when, and accompanied by what words, diagrams, etc. He also insists that, once having begun the process of going through the Gates, one should not stop along the way but continue straight through until all seven have been passed. The reason is clear: passing through only a few of the Gates is enough to let something Other in.

But to her, libraries were like hotels: secret villages inhabited by passing strangers from a thousand different worlds brought together just for a few hours.

But mixing is the way of the world. The world passes through us - food, books, pictures, other people.

Most of the time I spent in America, I was having a love affair with some American or other. I was just passing through but stayed because of these chaps.

Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.

That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end.

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

All things that are on earth shall wholly pass away, Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye.

With the passing of its last marcher, Rube Marquard, the parade vanished into the mists of time, leaving in its wake only memories of the men and deeds gone by.

It helped that Amelia looked more like her mother's side of the family, and it was startling to see how easy it was to pass.

That's the thing about dying. Nobody knows how long it takes.

Krishna: "The wise grieve not for those who live; and they grieve not for those who die—for life and death shall pass away.

she passed by the edge of the crowd, keeping a wide berth around a red-faced older woman who was shaking her fist in the air and shouting, "I want my country back!" When did people get so angry? Claire wondered.

There was a tremulousness to those days. All Britain waited to hear of Alfred's death, in the certain knowledge that his passing would scatter the runesticks

Life, despite their frantic yoohooings, had passed them by.

When I started doing stand-up, I resigned from my job as a maths teacher and, three days before I was due to leave, my dad passed away.

We pass now quickly from each other's sight; but I know full well that where beyond these passing scenes you shall be, there will be Heaven.

The night became silver again; looking up, it was as if they saw the moon sailing through the clouds instead of the other way around; racing smoothly across the sky, passing puffs and wisps of cloud on either side, and yet never moving from its place.

The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by

The sofa is a mountain to climb, a valley for sleeping in, a place of ambush for surprise attacks on passing parents.

Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.

new method of taxing people with their faults has not only retained but magnified its own faults. It tells only one side of the story, and a far from disinterested one. Checking it out is difficult, but passing it on is easy.