Famous quotes containing the words pass and/or break:
“Our ideas are for the most part like bad sixpences, and we spend our lives trying to pass them on one another.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“Hours before dawn we were woken by the quake.
My house was on a cliff. The thing could take
Bookloads off shelves, break bottles in a row.
Then the long pause and then the bigger shake.
It seemed the best thing to be up and go.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)