Passed Quotes · Page 3

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

— John Berger

I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.

— Ray Stevens

My great-grandmother taught my mom to cook and she passed down the recipes to me.

— Teresa Giudice

I cried inconsolably when Sridevi passed away, I also went to see her and paid my last respects.

— Rupali Ganguly

I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years.

— Ziggy Marley

After Obama was elected president, the same day Proposition 8 was passed, there was this fire in our belly.

— Gavin Creel

Gramps was a baseball junkie. He passed on so much to all of us from a baseball standpoint.

— Aaron Boone

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

— Henry Charles Carey

In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids.…

— Edward P. Jones

What I would do is a 10-minute short of some kind on video, and if it's good enough, you get it passed…

— David Zucker

Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means…

— Bhumibol Adulyadej

It's a song that we sing after we win a Test match. We sing it after every one-day series win. It's been…

— Ricky Ponting

I can't believe how much time has passed. The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a…

— Sarah Silverman

Yeah, I've gotten to know the many sides of Richard Sherman as the years have passed. There's a lot going on with…

— Bobby Wagner

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my…

— Criss Angel

Monsieur Puss came at last to a stately castle, the master of which was an Ogre, the richest ever known; for all…

— Charles Perrault

My mom's brother was gay, and he actually passed away from AIDS when I was 13. He was quite a character, but…

— Casey Wilson

I remember the noise of the bells ringing at school as the effigy of Guy Fawkes we'd prepared earlier was carried out…

— Pippa Middleton

I definitely subscribe to the idea that 9/11, to use an overused phrase, was a wake-up call. There was a year-long national…

— Bruce Feiler

Originally I had planned to write just a couple of children's books and then, return the focus on adult literature. A funny…

— Nikki Grimes

I used to go swimming and passed the tennis courts every day, and that's how it started. My mum said, 'Why don't…

— Sania Mirza

Over the last several years, I've passed defunding Planned Parenthood, the sonogram bill, voter ID. I passed the TSA anti-groping bill, sanctuary…

— David Dewhurst

I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been…

— Robbie Robertson

Scott Hall is a great wrestler, a better friend, but more than anything a very caring human being. Scott never passed a…

— Kevin Nash

I really wish I could have collaborated with Prince before he passed.

— Gabriella Wilson

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.

— Albert Bushnell Hart

I don't think I'd hold back if I ever had a conversation with anybody that truly passed up on me.

— Baker Mayfield

If you don't care about what people think, you already passed the first step of success.

— Paulo Coelho

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.

— Martin Parr

I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.

— Jack Adams

one day I'll be old, without ever having really been young

— Beatrice Sparks

I think racism is something that is passed on and taught to our kids, and that's a shame.

— Ruby Bridges

Telling yourself that what has passed will never come back

— Anonymous

I do want to be a mother. I like the idea of passing on what my mother passed on to me.

— Elisabeth Moss

I had a dream to be an attorney. I don't know if I ever would've passed the bar or not, but that…

— Michael Kelly

The presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families.

— Martin O'Malley

One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.

— Mayim Bialik

So often, our sporting allegiances are shaped by family tradition, passed down like heirlooms.

— Clint Smith

My mother passed in 2002. That was a blow like no other blow.

— Anthony Ray Hinton

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

— George Pataki