Sudden Passing Quotes

#1. On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am terribly saddened by the sudden passing of Kirby Puckett. He was a Hall of Famer in every sense of the term. He was revered throughout the country and will be remembered wherever the game is played. Kirby was taken from us much too soon - and too quickly.

Bud Selig

#2. The sudden passing of Jack Bruce is terribly sad news. One of the greatest rock bassists to ever live and a true and profound inspiration to countless musicians. He was one of my first bass heroes and was a major influence on my playing and my music. My heartfelt condolences to his family and fans.

Geddy Lee

#3. As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.

James Vila Blake

#4. If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.

Whoopi Goldberg

#5. I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them.

Tom Six

#6. A community is like a family," she told him, "and every family has a few odd ducks. The important thing to remember is that they're still family.

Heather Vogel Frederick

#7. Creutzfeldt- Jakob Disease, a rare and debilitating neurological disorder.

Anonymous

#8. Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.

Tom Smothers

#9. What did he see, I wonder? What avenue opened before him? A sudden way through, an escape from all the torment? Or was it just the venal act of a selfish child, wanting to somehow punish the woman standing before him ... just passing the guilt along, as cowards will do. Well,

Steven Erikson

#10. The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.

Joyce Carol Oates

#11. He was amazed at the sudden impression that his words had produced, and, remembering a book that he had read when he was sixteen, a book which had revealed to him much that he had not known before, he wondered whether Dorian Gray was passing through a similar experience.

Oscar Wilde

#12. I ate so many Ramen noodles that I wouldn't even touch a package of them now.

Jeremy Camp

#13. Like vanishing dew,
a passing apparition
or the sudden flash
of lightning
already gone
thus should one regard one's self.

Ikkyu

#14. The one thing that's missing, but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash, a method whereby on the Internet you can transfer funds from A to B, without A knowing B or B knowing A.

Milton Friedman