#passing

some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished. Everything went past without me. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#time-passing #life

True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#await #born #i #i am #nobly

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#became #columbia #columbia university #drop #expected

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? ↗

— Walt Whitman

#i #me #meet #passing #should

In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#distinguished #first #first time #had #honor

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#beings #birth #fellowship #human #human beings

Gray skies are just clouds passing over. ↗

— Frank Gifford

#clouds #gray #just #over #passing

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#being #beings #constant #like #nothing

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#left #passing #proves #still #surprises

Excerpt: Paradox – Bound By Blood. The hands on a clock never falter, not for a second. One day ends; and a new begins. If there was one thing on this earth that could be counted on, it was that. Time never paused to mourn the dead. That particular privilege is allotted to the living. It is for the survivor to mourn, bury the dead, and leave the rest to the earth. That is the way of it – the way of death - and the misery it leaves behind. ↗

— Patti Roberts

#mourn #time-passing #death