Passed Quotes

1736 quotes by 1386 authors

It took me a long time to get used to the reality that my grandmother had passed away. Wherever I was, in the house, in… — Quang Nhuong Huynh
When Maryam Babangida and Mariam Abacha built the Women Centre and the National Hospital they did not carry the buildings when they left government. I… — Patience Jonathan
I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much… — Alexi Giannoulias
Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure. — Bill Foster
He [Jesus] came to save all through himself; all, I say, who through him are reborn in God: infants, and children, and youths, and old… — Irenaeus of Lyons
August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
[Modern science] passed through a long period of uncertainty and inconclusive experiment, but as the instrumental aids to research improved, and the results of observation… — Thomas George Bonney
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise… — Hans Arp
Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and felt the aorta… — Astley Cooper
There never comes a point where a theory can be said to be true. The most that one can claim for any theory is that… — A.J. Ayer
Just as the spectroscope opened up a new astronomy by enabling the astronomer to determine some of the constituents of which distant stars are composed,… — Richard Dixon Oldham
Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust of that which… — Henry De la Beche
The human mind has a natural tendency to explore what has passed in distant ages in scenes with which it is familiar: hence the taste… — William Buckland
Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge, passed on from… — Robert P. Crease
Their pupils and their little charges are not nourished and fed by what they learn: the learning is passed from hand to hand with only… — Michel de Montaigne
In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed through from death… — Bede Griffiths
When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you find… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the… — Bernardino Ramazzini
Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth. — George Orwell

Who Wrote These Passed Quotes

1,386 authors contributed a total of 1,736 Passed Quotes, led by these top contributors: