#passage

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #passage




Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.


Tom Brokaw


#counting #difficult #friend #getting #guy

And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.


James Lee Burke


#growing-older #passage-of-time #tempus-fugit #age

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?


Philip Gilbert Hamerton


#author #ever #more #much #observed

Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx.


Roman Jakobson


#crossroads #leads #mouth #off #passage

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.


Erica Jong


#grade #grade school #language #lives #most

Cinema was my rite of passage.


John Singleton


#passage #rite

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'


Cesare Lombroso


#both #god #his #i #knew

Our specious present as such is very short. We do, however, experience passing events; part of the process of the passage of events is directly there in our experience, including some of the past and some of the future.


George Herbert Mead


#events #experience #future #however #including

If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#moments #passage-of-time #time #world #art

The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.


Mark Doty


#fluidity #passage #time #world #change