Passed

Famous quotes containing the word passed:

    “The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.”
    —Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

    “A lady with whom I was riding in the forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if the genii who inhabit them suspend their deeds until the wayfarer had passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “by Spoon Rivergathering many a shell,
    And many a flower and medicinal weed—
    Shouting to the wooded hills, singing to the green valleys.
    At ninety-six I had lived enough, that is all,
    And passed to a sweet repose.”
    —Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950)