Passing It Quotes - Page 2

• Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

  Mitch Albom

  Positive, Sacrifice, Losing

  "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". Book by Mitch Albom, 2003.

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• I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't normally have any qualms about passing it to a friend or donating it to the library.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Qualms About, Library

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• To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.

  Nat Turner

  Mind, Saws, Would Be

  Nat Turner (2011). “The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia”, p.18, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.

  Samuel West

  Play, Torches, Done

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• Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Circles, Passing, Passings

  "100 Years of Solitude". Book by Gabriel García Márquez, p. 409, www.counterpunch.org. 2006.

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