Passage Quotes - page 3

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty. (Katherine Applegate)
Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships. View quote
Billie Jean King
I have learned that one should say "Peace!" to those who shout their hatred for one's being and presence or at one's passage. View quote
Tariq Ramadan
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage. View quote
Pete Townshend
I'm only interested in rites of passage stories. View quote
Pete Townshend
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. View quote
Tom Brokaw
The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. View quote
Esther Williams
I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis. View quote
Anton Seidl
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. View quote
Balthus
From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left Behind, President Bush presided over a major expansion of the reach of government. View quote
Chuck Todd
America is terrified of the passage of time. Prozac Nation. Land of Face Lifts. (Dirk Benedict)
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage. View quote
Danny Glover
The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968. View quote
Jeffrey Toobin
In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration. View quote
John L. Phillips
Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications. View quote
John Podhoretz
My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road. View quote
Kenny Loggins
In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings. View quote
Karl Philipp Moritz
For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying. View quote
Linda Sanchez
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere. View quote
Maya Lin
A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time. View quote
Maya Lin
Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act. (Roger Wicker)
One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings. View quote
Satish Kumar
In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs. View quote
William Bligh
But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history. View quote
Xavier Becerra
A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie. View quote
Maurice Jarre