Passage Quotes
469 quotes by 408 authors
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Baptism into this Church is a serious thing. It represents a covenant made with our Heavenly Father. It is much more than a right of…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.
— Barack Obama
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When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is…
— Rollo May
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Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny, and materially hasten…
— Strom Thurmond
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My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain…
— Wilder Penfield
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Getting a tattoo should hurt. It's a rite of passage.
— Jenna Jameson
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Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the…
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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Were I asked to define it, I should reply that archeology is that science which enables us to register and classify our knowledge of the…
— Amelia B. Edwards
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Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.
— Walter Sickert
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Some spiritual traditions view the moment of birth as a passage from a state of wholeness and knowledge to a state of forgetting. In this…
— Bernie Siegel
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I cannot recall a more engaging passage in fiction, and I've been trying for almost eighteen seconds.
— S. J. Perelman
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Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the…
— Shirley Hazzard
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If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful…
— Marquis de Sade
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If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude…
— Frank Yerby
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If you really look at hip-hop dance, it's really a rites-of-passage thing. You never see the arms release down. They're always up in fighting position.…
— Unknown Author
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I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort…
— John Selden
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As the work progresses the careful reader will insert mental interrogation points here and there. He will find that his interest increases as the interrogation…
— John Bates Clark
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Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go through the prayer…
— Ashley Judd
Who Wrote These Passage Quotes
408 authors contributed a total of 469 Passage Quotes, led by these top contributors: