Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
When a young person is moved by a passion and feels compelled to go on this sort of quest, I think you have to let him. You can't stop him. In our culture we don't have formal rights of passage like in some ancient cultures. Subjecting yourself to risk. . . may be something you have to go through to be a man or a woman.
The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble.
The worse the passage the more welcome the port.
I wanted to breathe new life into the timeless trend of past, present and future. These unique designs celebrate the bride and groom's passage through their new life together.
I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.
If I were reading a book and happened to strike a wonderful passage I would close the book then and there and go for a walk. I hated the thought of coming to the end of a good book. I would tease it along, delay the inevitable as long as possible, But always, when I hit a great passage, I would stop reading immediately. Out I would go, rain, hail, snow or ice, and chew the cud.
There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. When that happens, the man who knows must strike before reckoning the consequences.
I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire.
There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better.
One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that situation yourself.
No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.
Students who are put in a university who aren't qualified tend to have lower graduation rates, they have lower grades, they have lower bar passage rates. You can demonstrate that. You are putting them in position where they are not set up to succeed.
The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage.
I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.
All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.
Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?
Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.