109 Passed Quotes

Following is our list of passed quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about passing of a loved one.

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Famous Passed Quotes

Those having torches will pass them on to others. — Plato

Tradition is not to preserve the ashes, but to pass on the fire. - Gustav Mahler

Tradition is not to preserve the ashes, but to pass on the fire. — Gustav Mahler

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on. — Simone Weil

If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others. — Plato

Wealth won't last if good habits are not being passed down. — Patrick Bet-David

At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others. — Gloria Steinem

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future. - Joshua Chamberlain

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future. — Joshua Chamberlain

All you can take with you is that which you've given away. — Sayings

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give. — Rumi

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. — Esther Williams

If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way. — Erik H. Erickson

God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next. — Mary Pride

...tell them that we have some good in us, too. And the only thing worth living for is the good. That’s why we’ve got to make sure we pass it on. — Billie Letts

The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced. — Fernand Point

It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic. — Andrew Johnson

Short Passed Quotes

  • If you judge people, you have no time to love them. — Mother Teresa
  • Listen with your heart, you will understand. — Pocahontas
  • You don't live on the earth, you are passing through it. — Rumi
  • Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain. — Vivian Greene
  • In egotism, one is assailed by fear, he passes his life totally troubled by fear. — Guru Gobind Singh
  • Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses. — Dorothy Parker
  • This moment,which we are living right now will pass too. We have to enjoy, enjoy all that we can. — Neymar
  • Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. — Richard P. Feynman
  • The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on. — Julia Alvarez
  • The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. — George Orwell

Passed Image Quotes

I've never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else. - Abby Wambach quote

I've never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else. — Abby Wambach

Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. - George Jung quote

Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. — George Jung

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. - Francis Bacon quote

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. — Francis Bacon

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. - Omar N. Bradley quote

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. — Omar N. Bradley

Passed quote Stop trying to calm the storm. Calm yourself, the storm will pass.
Stop trying to calm the storm. Calm yourself, the storm will pass.
Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one. - Tom Thomson quote

Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one. — Tom Thomson

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. - Publilius Syrus quote

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. — Publilius Syrus

Passed quote Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. - George Herbert quote

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. — George Herbert

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass. - Charles Spurgeon quote

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass. — Charles Spurgeon

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on. - Albert Einstein quote

Creativity is contagious. Pass it on. — Albert Einstein

Keep passing the open windows. - John Irving quote

Keep passing the open windows. — John Irving

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go. - Leonardo DiCaprio quote

My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go. — Leonardo DiCaprio

All our words and actions pass in review before God. - Ellen G. White quote

All our words and actions pass in review before God. — Ellen G. White

Passed quote You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. Tru
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control your that means everyone can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

Passing Exam Quotes

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft. — Bill Gates

My vision of the future is no longer of people taking exams and proceeding from secondary school to University but of passing from one stage of independence to a higher, by means of their own activity and effort of will. — Maria Montessori

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would. — Mary Leakey

Passed quote Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Sometimes I really think people ought to have to pass a proper exam before they're allowed to be parents. Not just the practical, I mean. — Terry Pratchett

Due to affirmative action, about half of the black law students fall to the bottom 10% percent of the class and they are 2.5 times more likely than whites not to graduate college. Blacks are four times less likely to pass the bar exam on the first attempt. — Peter Kirsanow

... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass our Master's exams." — Paul Halmos

Passed quote Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, its about learning to dance with the rain
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, its about learning to dance with the rain

The educational system is pretty much geared to passing the next exam. You're educated to pass tests and not to understand. — Noam Chomsky

I was born in 1968, just eighteen months after my sister Chrisse and just one year after Dad passed the bar exam. — Carre Otis

I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my Classics exam.' The books are accurate enough that they can serve as a gateway to Homer and Virgil. — Rick Riordan

Passing Of A Loved One Quotes

What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully. — Victor Cherbuliez

Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those. — Sylvia Plath

When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. — Kahlil Gibran

Passed quote We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to  o
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, learn, grow, love and then return home.

One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn’t, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away. — Nicole Krauss

But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current. — Paulo Coelho

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. — Helen Keller

Passed quote Some people pass through our lives for a reason to teach us lessons that could never be learned if t
Some people pass through our lives for a reason to teach us lessons that could never be learned if they stayed.

What is this love that endures decades, passes on sleep, and resists death to give one kiss? Call it agape love, a love that bears a semblance of God's. — Max Lucado

One can say this in general of men: they are ungrateful, disloyal, insincere and deceitful, timid of danger and avid of profit...Love is a bond of obligation that these miserable creatures break whenever it suits them to do so; but fear holds them fast by a dread of punishment that never passes. — Niccolo Machiavelli

The message of love can never come into a human soul, and pass away from it unreceived, without leaving that spirit worse, with all its lowest characteristics strengthened, and all its best ones depressed, by the fact of rejection. — Alexander Maclaren

One of my most precious possessions is my memory of a home in which love was supreme, in which I cannot recall ever a cross word having passed between father and mother. We all owe such a blessing to our children. — Sayings

Passing Clouds Quotes

Gray skies are just clouds passing over. - Duke Ellington

Gray skies are just clouds passing over. — Duke Ellington

I have made a sculpture … you will never be finished with it – when you pass around it or see it against the sky… something new goes on all the time… together with the sun, the light and the clouds, it makes a living thing. — Jørn Utzon

Life is short if you don't notice it'll pass you by, That's why my head is in the clouds trying to pass the sky. — Ludacris

Passed quote Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes. — Whittaker Chambers

Through woods and mountain passes The winds, like anthems, roll. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked. — Edvard Munch

Passed quote Pain is the passing lane where you leave the competition behind you.
Pain is the passing lane where you leave the competition behind you.

As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven. — Jack Kerouac

Behind every dark cloud there is an every-shining sun. Just wait. In time, the cloud will pass. — Marianne Williamson

Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it. I have learned this, but like everyone, I learned it late. — Beryl Markham

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mom Passing Away Quotes

I was homeless. I lived in a car for a couple of years. That was the worst. But nothing was worse than when I was 40 and my mom passed away. My mother was the best person I ever knew. Those were the two lowest points. — Steve Harvey

I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again.' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children. — Mindy Kaling

Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great. — Jessica Hahn

Passed quote Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, It's about learning to dance in the rain.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, It's about learning to dance in the rain.

I've learned... That I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her one more time before she passed away. — Andy Rooney

Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn't have the best talk. Ever since my stepdad passed away three years ago, she has been very depressed and hasn't been herself at all. — Eric West

My mother's in my life, but at the time you imagine your mom passing away, not being there ... as a kid you try to think of something that hurts you the most ... It was just a tool [in "Hardball"]. — Michael B. Jordan

Passed quote In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

To see the way that [my mother] held our family together after my dad passed away, and then went to college after my youngest sister went off to school on her own, and mom went and got a college degree in her 60s is just incredibly inspiring. So, I would just say my folks. — Mike Pence

It's at my mom's house! She keeps everything. We were talking about it the other day - I threw something away, like our passes from Hollywood Horror Nights, and she was like, "Where are they?" I was like, "I threw them out." She was like, "You are just not the sentimental type." — Jodi Sweetin

My mother photographed Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas, right before he passed away. He was actually the first artist whose work I collected. I just loved the photographs that my mom had done of Donald Judd and the installations in Marfa. — Owen Wilson

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That's how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it's a release, for lack of a better word. — Kevin Hart

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More Passed Quotes

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way. — Robert Baden-Powell

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. — Ronald Reagan

Dont look to the sky for fireworks when you can watch them light up in the eyes of all the people passing by. — Tyler Kent

Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which passes like a shadow. Do not let false delights of a deceptive world deceive you. — Clare of Assisi

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage. — Winston Churchill

Persuade your fellow citizens it's a good idea and pass a law. That's what democracy is all about. It's not about nine superannuated judges who have been there too long, imposing these demands on society. — Antonin Scalia

You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count. — Nancy Reagan

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. — Earl Nightingale

No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it. — George Washington Carver

Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.. No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself: "This too shall pass!" — T. D. Jakes

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back. — Harvey Mackay

Beware of every hour and how it passes, and only spend it in the best possible way, do not neglect yourself, but render it accustomed to the noblest and best of actions, and send to your grave that which will please you when you arrive to it. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism. — Alexander Hamilton

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through. — Karl Marx

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them. — Huey Newton

He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others; and he who walks far ahead of his contemporaries is a leader, even though centuries pass before he is recognized as such. — Ibn Khaldun

Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical for the thing to pass. — Jonathan Gruber

It is far easier for the proverbial camel to pass through the needle's eye, hump and all, than for an erstwhile colonial administration to give sound and honest counsel of a political nature to its liberated territory. — Kwame Nkrumah

When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns. — Ajahn Brahm

I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good. — Randy Savage

Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within. I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball. — Kendrick Lamar

A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you. — Ayn Rand

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