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Quotes About Passing

But you say you respect difference." "Different strengths we respect. Not weakness. What is the use in not actively engaging life? It passes anyhow. She thought of the asylum. "Sometimes you have no choice.
~ Marge Piercy
A faintly puzzled expression, if the term is not too specific, passed a leisurely way over Mr. Whippet's indeterminate features.
~ Margery Allingham
White people wanted to be white just as much as we did. They worked just as hard at it. They failed more often. But they could pass, so no one objected.
~ Margo Jefferson
If we placed too high a value on the looks, manners, and morals called the birthright of the Anglo-Saxon… White people wanted to be white just as much as we did. They worked just as hard at it. They failed just as often. They failed more often. But they could pass, so no one objected.
~ Margo Jefferson
We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead.
~ Unknown
If the quarterback throws the ball in the endzone and the wide receiver catches it, it's a touchdown.
~ John Madden
R.I.P to the millions of people who die every day and dont get recognized.
~ Unknown
Maybe at the beginning. It didn't last long.
~ Unknown
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. The world is passing away, and also its lusts;
~ Unknown
Worldliness is often defined in terms of certain behaviors, such as gambling, going to certain movies, wearing certain kinds of clothes, and so on. But worldliness goes much deeper. It's a mindset, or attitude. Of course, this attitude reveals itself in actions, but worldliness begins as an attitude. A concise definition of worldliness is a love for passing things.
~ Unknown
Trump, too, would pass, like a kidney stone.
~ Mark Leibovich
A person whom Mark had small regard for, said: Mark, I recently chanced to pass by your house. To which Mark dryly replied: And may you always continue to do so.
~ Mark Twain
Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.
~ Robert Breault
Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.
~ Evan S. Connell
We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on.
~ Louis Riel
Find something to believe in, and find it for yourself. And when you do - pass it on to the future.
~ Hideo Kojima
Before a clock was in the tower, Or e'er a watch was worn; I knew of night the passing hour, And prophesied the morn; To man of every age and clime, The oldest chronicler of time.
~ John Banister Tabb
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
~ Marcel Proust
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.
~ Victor Hugo
Sometimes the better part of valor—and common sense—is saying, "I'll pass.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
Love passes quickly, and passes like a street Arab, anxious to mark his way with mischief
~ Honore de Balzac
Loveliest of lovely things are they, On earth, that soonest pass away
~ William Cullen Bryant
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.
~ Australian Aboriginal Proverb
I've grown tired of love You are the trouble with me I watch you walk right by
~ Anne Sexton