Passed

Famous quotes containing the word passed:

“We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice—that is, until we have stopped saying “It got lost,” and say, “I lost it.””
—Sydney J. Harris (b. 1917)

“they were placed in a box
and painted identically blue
and thus passed their days
living happily ever after
a kind of coffin,
a kind of blue funk.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.”
—Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846)