Passed On Quotes

#1. Molecule Trustees: The sun and all of us are molecule trustees, administering the molecules entrusted to us until they are passed on. Like any trustee, we do not own the property, nor do we decide who will receive what we stewarded. It might be somebody grumpy like Xanthippe.

Amy Leach

#2. As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end.

Meriwether Lewis

#3. He presented it with a length of string
and passed on to the statue of Corrupted Endeavor
to await the arrival of Autumn.

Edward Gorey

#4. Oh, don't be afraid of being a skeptic, Patrick," Elsie said. "It's the duty of each generation to examine the 'wisdom' passed on by the previous generation. We'd

Tom Phelan

#5. Peace begins in each person's heart and then is passed on to the people they love most. Then they pass it on until everyone has peace in their heart.

Jennifer Garrison

#6. We do have a choice at the end of the day to say yes or to say no. There have been things that I have passed on where agents at the time were like, "you're crazy, why would you pass on this," because it wasn't something that I personally wanted to be a part of.

Heather Matarazzo

#7. Ain't it God's sword, fell from the sky? I thought it had to be passed on. Is it cursed?"
Craw took up the reins and turned back to the north. "Every sword's a curse, boy.

Joe Abercrombie

#8. 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

#9. Up the stairs I found an imposing headquarters, decorated with the portraits and busts of solemn, whiskered old darlings who, no doubt, bled their customers with leeches and passed on the information to alarmed small boys that self-abuse leads to blindness.

John Mortimer

#10. Nothing belongs to us. Everything is something that is rented out. Our very heads are filled with rented ideas passed on from one generation to the next.

Thomas Ligotti

#11. Mitochondria, as we have seen, are only passed on in the egg, so all 13 mitochondrial genes come from our mothers. If these genes really do influence lifespan, and we can only inherit them from our mothers, then our own lifespan should reflect that of our mothers but not our fathers.

Nick Lane

#12. 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

#13. A decree of death has been passed on America. The judgment of God has been rendered, and she must be destroyed.

Louis Farrakhan

#14. One of the best things about Heaven is that we will be able to reunite with loved ones who have already passed on. It will be the greatest family reunion we've ever known, with our loved ones, relatives and ancestors all together in one place at the same time, rejoicing. All together at last!

David Berg

#15. 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

#16. Claude could simply not imagine the couples he met at parties or passed on the street ever being locked in carnal embrace.

Tom Robbins

#17. 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

#18. 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 Lenz

#19. Old witch passed on a few good things but they'll never counter all the evil she did.

Karen Marie Moning

#20. To first understand the concept of a haunted doll, one must realize that the doll itself does not posses life. In other words, the doll is not alive. In theory, the doll is haunted by the soul of a person who has passed on. A haunted doll is a spiritual attachment, a haunted item.

Matthew Jackson

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Life is proposed to me
My name is passed on to me
My body is imposed on me

Edouard Leve

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way.

Kenny Loggins

#27. 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

#28. For now, I will say that God endowed humans with a great many powers and forces, and some of the creative, constructive powers can only be passed on through channels of others."

The Guardian

Linden Morningstar

#29. Death moved in the night, in search for blood, and when it found Life, it passed on by, like a cloud that moves by the face of the moon. When he found those dead without the red, he took the life before them born first, and the mourning emptied itself till the morning.

Anthony Liccione

#30. 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

#31. He who is not delicate flower of your soul to the winds of temptation, whatever it whole and saved and passed on to the end, it's as if it never had.

Ivo Andric

#32. I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.

Adam Driver

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. Just as in our bodies, every cell must first be "Celfish"; solely responsible for its own survival and once those conditions are met, the value is passed on. That is Free Market Capitalism at the cellular level.

Carl T. Johnson

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. We took a bus to Victoria, then passed on foot into a vast, desolate region of stucco streets and squares upon which a doom seemed to have fallen. The gloom was cosmic.

Anthony Powell

#40. Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#41. Received through the years. But Harriet had passed on the

Carolyn Brown

#42. You're exactly where you need to be. Don't think you've lost time. Every opportunity you've passed on has brought you to this moment, and every moment is a fresh chance to start again.

Jenna Ushkowitz

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. Our true believers passed on, or stopped believing, and we were left, lost and scared and dispossessed, to get by on what little smidgens of worship or belief we could find.

Neil Gaiman

#48. I just passed on some a script that I was sent, because I said, "I haven't yet played the person staying home, the one that says, 'Good luck, honey,' or whatever." And so that's what I look for. Therefore, by virtue of that exclusion, I'm always trying to find roles that are challenging.

Geena Davis

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. Christmas is supported through celebration, joyfully passed on - from generation to generation.

Eleesha

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. The spirits of those who die before their appointed time always carried such anguish with them, that it passed on to the people in their path.

Easterine Kire

#55. 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

#56. The verdict to be passed on the third planet around Sol was never in doubt.

Robert A. Heinlein

#57. So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.

Herbie Hancock

#58. Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#59. Stories were migrants, blow-ins, border-crossers, tunnellers from France and Italy and more distant territories where earlier and similar stories had been passed on in Arabic and Persian and Chinese and Sanskrit.

Marina Warner

#60. Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Mayim Bialik

#62. With each festering carcass Neko passed on the wayside, he accepted that death was as much a reality as his morning commute to work. He

T.S. Pettibone

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. 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 Lenz

#67. When the iPhone was first announced, CEO Steve Jobs spewed enough BS to cover a football field full of babies 3 feet deep in bullshit, which sounds cool because he could have potentially murdered a football field full of babies, but he passed on this opportunity by introducing the phone instead.

Maddox

#68. The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#69. Kindness is something that should always be passed on.

Debbie Macomber

#70. Ignatius was the third bishop of Antioch and was discipled by John the Apostle himself. The Apostle John, who passed on the true faith of Jesus Christ through letters such as 1 John, passed on the faith, once delivered to the saints, to Ignatius.

Greg Gordon

#71. Our lives intersect and interfere and there is no telling where certain beauties might come from. Some song in her heart where otherwise there wouldn't have been one and in Sarah's too passed on down.

Michael Byers

#72. Among the things he passed on to me were the belief that all men and women, regardless of their color or religion, are created equal and that individuals determine their own destiny; that is, it's largely their own ambition and hard work that determine their fate in life.

Ronald Reagan

#73. The Goddess spoke to all the dead. She was beloved for it. It seemed she passed on that gift to you. Oh, it taxed her immensely, but she tried to set as many to rest as she could. Sometimes it only takes one word of kindness, you know, to set a soul at ease.

Leanna Renee Hieber

#74. While the official church was moribund, the house churches kept alight the flame of Christian witness. The church survived as a lay movement, often led by poorly educated Bible women who memorized Scripture and passed on the faith to family members and (if they dared) to neighbors and friends.

Kim-Kwong Chan

#75. It was passed on by the hook-nosed herdsmen of the grasslands, from the dwellers in tents to the dwellers in the squat stone cities where kings with curled blueblack beards worshipped round-bellied gods with curious rites.

Robert E. Howard

#76. I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a car wreck he passed on the highway. I learned not to censor myself: that was one of things I learned in my apprenticeship, my creative-writing apprenticeship with my dad.

Lucinda Williams

#77. There's nothing really original. Alien was a B-movie. Five directors passed on it before me. Because I was into Heavy Metal, I read it, and thought, "Wow, I want to do this." I was on a plane to Hollywood in 22 hours. It was a B-movie and was elevated to an A-plus movie by sheer good taste.

Ridley Scott

#78. He could have loved her as a man loves a woman, protected her, provided for her, given her children, grown old with her and passed on to the next life with her. Damn

J.R. Barrett

#79. Conscience defined by the elders,
passed on to the next generations.

Toba Beta

#80. Look, my dear Govinda, this is one of my thoughts, which I have found: wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness." "Are

Hermann Hesse

#81. But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.

Thomas Jefferson

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. Good. It's better if my DNA isn't passed on." "Why? You're smart, beautiful, powerful." "I'm also mentally unstable and may have tendencies toward criminal insanity.

Nalini Singh

#85. 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

#86. I think when you're a bigger star you get many good scripts sent to you, and you have to choose which one you're going to gravitate toward, but I just try to gravitate toward the best-written one that's been thrown my way after a lot of girls have passed on it.

Amanda Peet

#87. 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

#88. Like Hitler, the president used the word lies to mean statements of fact not to his liking, and presented journalism as a campaign against himself. The president was on friendlier terms with the internet, his source for erroneous information that he passed on to millions of people. In

Timothy Snyder

#89. 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

#90. So we speak of a Black God, Mother God, Worker God.
This de-mystifies what's been passed on to us! In our process of organization and liberation of our people, it's important to meet a God who is more like us. (Silvia Regina de Lima Silva, p. 105)

Mev Puleo

#91. Anger isn't usually about an event. It's passed on from father to son. If you know that, you can stop it; you can choose not to be angry. I

Rajiv Parti

#92. Maybe you need to find something more active? How about a yoga class?"
"Yoga? Sweetheart, I've had no reason to put my legs around my neck since Bud passed on.

Victoria Vane

#93. 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

#94. We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable ...

Edna O'Brien

#95. 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

#96. 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

#97. I'm sure I passed on some things that will probably be successful.

Matt Cohler

#98. She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.

Earl Scruggs

#99. 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

#100. It was a race he was running now, a race between his rent money and ... he did not know the name of the other contestant. Perhaps it was every man whom he passed on the street.

Ayn Rand