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  • Delegation is thepassing on of actions, actions, not the passing on of responsibility. -- Eric Edmeades
  • In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love -- Corrie Ten Boom
  • When you have children, you realize that at the end, it's all about passing on, about handing down. -- Andy Serkis
  • Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea. -- Najib Razak
  • There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children. -- James Dobson
  • It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time. -- Questlove
  • The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try. -- William Shakespeare
  • What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus. -- Haruki Murakami
  • There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented. -- Barack Obama
  • It's not about keeping up the population, it's about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we don't just end. -- Isaac Marion
  • The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition. -- Henry Miller
  • Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality. -- Jeanette Winterson
  • There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music. -- Miroslav Vitous
  • They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun. -- Kami Garcia
  • I'm not afraid of putting myself out there to someone and then them passing on it. At least you could have gotten a 'yes.' So it's worthwhile to have the cojones to do it. -- Carol Leifer
  • This whole theory of alienation that intellectuals have been passing on, really is just to stop a lot of ham acting. If you fill something with a proper emotion, it didn't worry him at all. -- John Hurt
  • I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza. -- Helen Thomas
  • When you have children, you realize that at the end it's all about passing on, about handing down. The process of letting go, not attachment, but appreciating the beauty and value in the change, the transformation. -- Andy Serkis
  • All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren. -- Charles Frazier
  • If the professors don't start or continue to figure out who we are as a people, where we're going and where we've been, then in a sense we are not capable of passing on that knowledge to future generations. -- Khalil Gibran Muhammad
  • I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself. -- Diane Wakoski
  • Work hard, believe in your dreams, follow your dreams, don't give up, don't let failures hold you back. Those things were preached to me. They've taken a firm rooting system in my beliefs and what I'm passing on to my kids. -- Kevin Sorbo
  • My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing. -- Erykah Badu
  • It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance. -- Sugata Mitra
  • The Treasury's plan has little for those outside of the financial industry. It is aimed at rescuing the same financial institutions that created this crisis with the sloppy underwriting and reckless disregard for the risk they were creating, taking or passing on to others. -- Richard Shelby
  • If you reduce sculpture to the flat plane of the photograph, you're passing on only a residue of your concerns... You're not only reducing the sculpture to a different scale for the purposes of consumption, but you're denying the real content of the work. -- Richard Serra
  • I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. -- Irvin D. Yalom
  • One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids. -- Bobby Schilling
  • Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by passing on their life to others and releasing their offspring to form new congregations. Church planting needs to be given priority by old-line denominations. -- Eddie Gibbs
  • Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children. -- Michael Morpurgo
  • The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the various mystery schools have kept the flame alive by passing on the secret techniques for attaining enlightenment from the time of Atlantis to our present day. -- Frederick Lenz
  • The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the various mystery schools have kept the flame alive by passing on the secret techniques for attaining enlightenment from the time of Atlantis to our present day. -- Frederick Lenz
  • Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America. -- Theodore White
  • Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed. -- Jennifer Lopez
  • Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. -- Robert Frost
  • I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate. -- Frank Lampard
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  • We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems. -- Naguib Mahfouz
  • We have to keep an eye on the future with a sense of the past in every passing moment of the present. -- Amanda Harlech
  • Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we? -- Pele
  • Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities. -- Jared Polis
  • In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman. -- Nancy Astor
  • I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated. -- Jimmie Johnson
  • I love finding talent. Just to encourage people is a good thing. Every night, the audience encourages me. I'm just passing it on. -- Liza Minnelli
  • The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. -- William Butler Yeats
  • I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid. -- Brian May
  • I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity. -- Marilyn Manson
  • Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life. -- Will Smith
  • Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon. -- Archibald Cox
  • I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. -- Russell Baker
  • Memo to future presidents: Never stake your entire survival on the painful passing of a bad bill. Never take the country down the road to 'Demon Pass.' -- Peggy Noonan
  • Congratulations on passing your test! Your HIV positive. -- Frankie Boyle
  • Death rides on every passing breeze, He lurks in every flower. -- Reginald Heber
  • You don't live on the earth, you are passing through it. -- Rumi
  • I don't want someone coming in and passing judgment on my life. -- Sandra Bernhard
  • I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it. -- Charles Bukowski
  • Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains. -- Felicia Hemans
  • [On swingers:] They have gone from Puritanism into promiscuity without passing through sensuality. -- Molly Haskell
  • The passive righteousness of faith frees me from passing final judgment on myself. -- Tullian Tchividjian
  • ...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun. -- Ray Bradbury
  • Remember, passing judgment on someone else's character, is only a reflection of your own. -- Demi Lovato
  • Are you weary? Catch your breath. Are you strong? Reserve passing judgment on the tired. -- Max Lucado
  • That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation. -- Bradford Cox
  • What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols. -- Anatole France
  • Time was passing like a hand waving from a train that I wanted to be on. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise. -- Samuel Johnson
  • The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. -- Alexander Pope
  • I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
  • I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one. -- Jodi Picoult
  • Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else. -- Mitch Albom
  • Though we met at the same station,we were but passing trains;on parallel lines,destined to never meet. -- Timothy Joshua
  • Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives. -- Gerald Durrell
  • I'm weird; I have a very strange emotional memory. I really somehow hold on to even passing moments with people. -- Marc Maron
  • [On Venice:] A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola. -- Sylvia Pankhurst
  • How do you feel?" he asked him. "Like a military academy," said Arthur. "Bits of me keep on passing out. -- Douglas Adams
  • A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment. -- Julia Cameron
  • Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death. -- Emily Haines
  • With my dad passing away, he's always watching me-a big smile on his face, watching every snap on the 50-yard line. -- Russell Wilson
  • They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway. -- Malachy McCourt
  • When a man is on the verge of passing out from pain, it seemed wrong to notice how beautiful he was. -- Patricia Briggs
  • Time is passing, ... We have to look at the reality of the situation and ... redouble our efforts and get on with it. -- Colin Powell
  • [The photograph] is fabricated out of the unfabricated dross of passing life (while paradoxically still trading on the indexical heft of that dross). -- Tod Papageorge
  • Nobody on this planet had a range of passing like Paul Scholes. Training every day was a pleasure just watching him. Unbelievable career. -- Michael Owen
  • The reason the Democrats are so intent on passing a stem-cell bill is they're depending on the research to grow themselves a spine. -- Will Durst
  • When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind. -- Jeannette Walls
  • The vows that woman makes to her fond lover are only fit to be written on air or on the swiftly passing stream. -- Catullus
  • A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine. -- Michael Bolton
  • (Milosevic's passing) should not keep us from our efforts to provide peace and stability in the Balkans; on the contrary, it should renew them. -- Frank-Walter Steinmeier
  • On a day - alack the day! - Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wanton air -- William Shakespeare
  • You think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time. -- Paul Theroux
  • Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of medieval, undemocratic intolerance. -- Lewis B. Smedes
  • Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path. -- Lu Xun
  • We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again. -- William Hazlitt
  • I'm kinda tired. I was up all night trying to round off infinity. Then I got bored and went out and painted passing lines on curved roads. -- Steven Wright
  • Time to improve is limited. The clock is always on and doesn't care if you don't feel like it. Someone else does and they're passing you by. -- William James Moore
  • The biggest sin against the poor and the hungry is perhaps indifference, making believe we do not see, passing by on the other side of the street. -- Raniero Cantalamessa
  • Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built. -- Claude Bernard
  • In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time. -- John Sergeant Wise
  • I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew. -- Daniel Bruhl
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