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Kindness is something that should always be passed on. -- Debbie Macomber
I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil. -- Adam Driver
Conscience defined by the elders,passed on to the next generations. -- Toba Beta
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future. -- Joshua Chamberlain
One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker. -- Mayim Bialik
As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end. -- Meriwether Lewis
The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence. -- George C. Williams
One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered. -- George Sand
Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted. -- Robert Collier
Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others. -- Samuel Richardson
Everybody feels they have been trespassed upon, and nearly everybody has trespassed on somebody else, maybe not intentionally. -- Hillary Clinton
Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind. -- Conrad Hilton
I originally passed on Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas. -- Ray Stevens
I`ve passed on a number of bills. I`ve studied the Constitution myself. I am reasonably well educated. -- Dianne Feinstein
I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas. -- Ray Stevens
It's something families could do together. They can be passed on from father to son, or father to daughter. -- Don Williams
I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness. -- Patti Smith
Legacy of cultures passed on from ancient to medieval era, from middle ages to present time through the seasons of dance. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
A decree of death has been passed on America. The judgment of God has been rendered, and she must be destroyed. -- Louis Farrakhan
You can see it in people's faces, when they're into a metal band. It's cool to see that being passed on. -- Chris Reifert
I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on. -- Jackson Pearce
Prince, sad to say, has passed on!!!He was a Giant. My deep condolences go out to his family, friends and fans. -- Gene Simmons
The fat lady hasn't sung yet. We'll wait until we get a look at what is in the motion passed on third reading. -- Bobby Orr
Rae Chorze-Fwaz has preserved and passed on their secret meditation techniques in oral tradition from the time of Atlantis until he present day. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling. -- Pam Grier
Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on. -- Pope Benedict XVI
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me. -- Kurt Russell
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me -- Kurt Russell
Either that information was not believed or inexplicably never passed on to the regional military command. When the attack finally came, Vienamese civilians were defenseless. -- Nayan Chanda
Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned. -- William Butler Yeats
Currently, not only are Americans taxed on what they earn, but those assets are taxed again when they are passed on to a loved one. -- Mary Bono
I wanted to be the conduit for somebody else's experiences, filtered through me, and passed on to other people. Which is the job description, really. -- Juliet Stevenson
If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law? -- Paul Craig Roberts
The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred. -- Kano Jigoro
Cooking is mythology - a story told over and over, passed on again and again, always with the same meaning but expressed in endlessly different ways. -- Anna Thomas
Buddhas continue to live on through their teachings as dharma bodies. Their spirits become manifest in the sangha (spiritual community) where their teachings are passed on. -- Shinjo Ito
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world. -- William James
W are all carrying the imprints of our most ancient ancestors. Not simply in the genetic code, but in the imprints of attention that are passed on. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that. -- Bob Newhart
Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him. -- Ella R. Bloor
One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live. -- Nik Wallenda
Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him. -- Ella R. Bloor
Who am I to pass judgment? Judgment has been passed on me, but I adhere to, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.' -- James Nesbitt
The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives. -- Mary Catherine Bateson
If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day. -- Julianna Margulies
I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting malcontents passed on. -- Wendy Wasserstein
Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too. -- Josette Sheeran
Genetics help to some degree, but the most important thing is the mind and the spirit. These two are even more powerful than physical characteristics that are passed on. -- Serge Nubret
Imagine a world full of brains, and far more memes than can possibly find homes. Which memes are more likely to find a safe home and get passed on again? -- Susan Blackmore
The message "Your body isn't good enough" translates in a little girls mind to "YOU aren't good enough." This becomes a core belief that gets passed on to the next generation. -- Christiane Northrup
No matter how much knowledge and wisdom you acquire during your life, not one jot will be passed on to your children by genetic means. Each new generation starts from scratch. -- Richard Dawkins
My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation. -- Lewis Black
Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts. -- Conrad Hilton
My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion. -- Zoey Deutch
My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion." -- Zoey Deutch
Bob Marley songs are my songs. These are the songs that have been passed on to me. Let me say, I wear my family crest, and I represent my family to the fullest. -- Stephen Marley
The truth is that if you play on TV there is always a sponsor. There is no way around it. I've already passed on so much money I don't worry about it anymore. -- Tom Petty
I've passed on a lot of huge-money jobs. Money doesn't enter into the decision-making. If I do a big blockbuster, it's about how big an audience you'll get and where you can take them. -- Matt Damon
You know, I've always just made the choices on my characters based on my connection to them, and I've made decisions that maybe other people haven't understood; why I passed on something, for instance. -- Summer Glau
I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere. -- David Blaine
Water helped ancient man learn those first lessons about the rights of others and responsibility to a larger society.... It became part of the moral and mental legacy parents passed on to their children. -- Max Meyer
Shame on me, for me to have this platform and me to have this opportunity to stand up for something that I thought was unjust, and I passed on it. I can't do that. -- Andrew Hawkins
Concerning the loved ones who have passed on ... do not try to make me believe that they are doing nothing, merely resting, careless ever. That would imply the condition of Hell, not of Heaven. -- G. Campbell Morgan
I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for thousands of years so I'm not really selling the art to this particular collector but it is being passed on. -- Richard MacDonald
[It is possible] that the race of red men ... will, before many generations, be remembered only as a strange, weird, dream-like specter, which has passed once before the eyes of men, but had departed forever. -- James A. Garfield
I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that. -- Edie Brickell
Rich people are the experimental ground for every new development. The nature of progress is that what begins as a luxury for the rich becomes a necessity for the poor as it's developed and passed on. -- Milton Friedman
There are physical karmas that carry through death. Jesus Christ may no longer be with us but his effects continue on in the world. Those waves will be passed on from one person to another to another. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them. -- Bill Gates
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' which my father had tried to get made for six, seven years, and I for four, was turned down by every studio. Every studio in the world had passed on it. -- Michael Douglas
Hypnosis I believe is real. The only problem I guess I have is that, you know, if God or somebody who passed on in my life wanted to talk to me, why wouldn't they come directly to me? -- Sean Hannity
The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation. -- Neal Boortz
Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs. -- Betty Shabazz
Like, for example, way back then,[George W.] Bush could have passed immigration reform, just like [Barack] Obama could have when he first came in. And both of them passed on it, so now they leave it for now. -- Rudy Giuliani
We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle. -- Benjamin E. Mays
Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered -- Franz Boas
When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it. -- Stephen Richards
Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered. -- Franz Boas
I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already. -- Anthony Powell
The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away. -- Alexander MacLaren
Then let yourself love all that you take delight in Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage That shaped you and is passed on from age to age Down to your entity. Remain mysterious; Rather than be pure, accept yourself as numerous. -- John Ashbery
Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way. -- Luther Burbank
Presented memorial to [Constitutional Convention] committee on sufferage. Was very courteously treated. We all felt it a great day in the history of Utah. The committee informed us they had passed on W[oman] S[uffrage] being ten to five in favor. -- Ruth May Fox
My father passed on one important piece of relationship advice before he died. He said son, in a relationship you can either be right or you can be happy. You'll soon find out that you don't care that much about being right. -- Ralphie May
I had passed on from life, from the world of struggles and hardship and big fat women with annoying laughs, and entered a glorious new existence of utter peace, and joy, and love. And then some git brought me back to life -- Yahtzee Croshaw
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. -- Barbara Bush
My father always has been attractive because of his energy, warmth, charm, and talent for finding some connection with people from all cultures and walks of life. He rarely observed social formalities and niceties - something he has passed on to his boys. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
The death tax destroys family businesses and stifles investment that leads to increases in jobs and personal income. As a result, 70 percent of family-owned businesses are not passed on to the next generation and 87 percent do not make it to the third generation. -- Jennifer Dunn
Maybe I was what Leah thought she was. Some kind of dead end that shouldn't be passed on to another generation. Or maybe it was just that my life was a big, cruel joke, and there was no escape from the punch line. -Jacob -- Stephenie Meyer
Go to any small village anywhere in the world, and see what they remember. Everything. It's all there -- passed on like a precious piece of information, some secret imparted from one who knew to one who yearns to know. Taken good care of. -- Alexander McCall Smith
At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message by all the TV managers and news directors who passed on me when I was trying to get a job back in the business. -- Mika Brzezinski
I do feel my loved ones that have passed on; I feel them looking over my shoulder... So yeah, that's pretty profound, when you're not expecting it, you didn't particularly believe in it and then it just sort of happens too often to ignore. -- Bonnie Raitt
As always, there was an all-American war hero look to him, coded in his tousled brown hair, his summer-narrowed hazel eyes, the straight nose that ancient Anglo-Saxons had graciously passed on to him. Everything about him suggested valor and power and a firm handshake. -- Maggie Stiefvater
I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas. -- Scotty McCreery
Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used to have some acting friends. Sadly, Joan Rivers has passed on. Larry Hagman was a close friend. A number of others. -- Barry Humphries
The United States has already passed on as the world's economic leader. Having flouted Thomas Jefferson for too long, America has succumbed to public debt, the 'fore horse for oppression and despotism,' after which 'taxation will follow, and in its train wretchedness and oppression. -- Ilana Mercer
My mother's a Buddhist. In Buddhism, if you want to achieve enlightenment, you have to do it through meditation and self-improvement through the mind. That's something she's passed on to me: to be able to calm myself down and use my mind as my main asset. -- Tiger Woods
Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future. -- Yehuda Berg
The team developer realizes that at times the leadership 'torch' must be passed on to others. This empowerment of others serves a dual purpose; it helps them hone their own team-building skills and it brings a fresh approach, perhaps even a special expertise, to the group's efforts. -- Marlene Caroselli
My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life. -- Dikembe Mutombo
In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on. -- Mandy Patinkin
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We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to be reinvented. We need to retool them so that all the gains that our generation has made can be passed on to future generations. -- Vandana Shiva
Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be passed on to the next generation. Now with technology, as it happens, we might indeed be able to transfer some of our acquired traits on to our selected offspring by genetic engineering. -- Nick Bostrom
At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips. -- Allen Johnson
To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter. -- Fredrik Bajer
It's good to pass on stories. -- Jami Attenberg
If you can't return a favor, pass it on. -- Louise Brown
You always pass failure on your way to success. -- Mickey Rooney
My dad reads the scripts and passes them on to me. -- Kodi Smit-McPhee
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. -- Karl Kraus
The most important thing about recovery is to pass the message on. -- Maurice Gibb
My dream has come true, now that I have passed it on. -- Mandy Patinkin
Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff. -- Candy Crowley
I pass on any opportunity I see that I can't add value on. -- Greg Brenneman
I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation. -- Andrew Cuomo
Everyone told me to pass on 'Speed' because it was a 'bus movie.' -- Sandra Bullock
On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act. -- Albert Bushnell Hart

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