Passing On Quotes:

The real number of the US' obligations, unfunded obligations that we're passing on to our future generates is more like $70 trillion to $75 trillion. The vast majority of that is health entitlements - Medicare, Obamacare, Medicaid. There's also Social Security, interest on the debt. But fundamentally, health entitlements are the thing that will bankrupt our kids. We need to fix that for the long-term.

- Benjamin E. Sasse

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Real, Kids, Passing On

As individuals, it's a responsibility to be cautious about the things we DO put out there. And taking the time to be mindful of what we're sharing. And always coming from a place of integrity. But also sharing positive things. Whether it be online, or just to someone walking down the street - just passing on positive energy.

- Lexi Ainsworth

topic: Integrity, Responsibility, Passing On

Old churches must not simply stand as monuments to the past but as spiritual grandparents that have invested in the future by passing on their life to others and releasing their offspring to form new congregations. Church planting needs to be given priority by old-line denominations.

- Eddie Gibbs

topic: Spiritual, Past, Passing On, Old Churches, Congregation

Delegation is the passing on of actions, actions, not the passing on of responsibility.

- Eric Edmeades

topic: Leadership, Responsibility, Passing On, Delegation

All I can say is that we are mistaken to gouge such a deep rift in history that the things old men and old women know have become so useless as to be not worth passing on to grandchildren.

- Charles Frazier

source: Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.412, Random House

topic: Grandchildren, Men, Passing On, Rift

The people to become enlightened in Atlantis lit the "flame of enlightenment" on earth for the first time. The members of the various mystery schools have kept the flame alive by passing on the secret techniques for attaining enlightenment from the time of Atlantis to our present day.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: School, Flames, Passing On, Atlantis, Ancient Egypt

In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love

- Corrie Ten Boom

topic: Jesus, Dark, Passing On, Dark World

In mission, also on a continental level, it is very important to reaffirm the family, which remains the essential cell of society and the Church; young people, who are the face of the Church's future; women, who play a fundamental role in passing on the faith and who are a daily source of strength in a society that carries this faith forward and renews it.

- Pope Francis

topic: Cells, Play, Passing On, Source Of Strength

Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they are useful, and therefore in temporary and partial relation to us, becoming burdensome when their utility is lost; or they are like wandering vagabonds, loitering for a moment on the outskirts of our recognition, and then passing on. A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us.

- Rabindranath Tagore

source: Rabindranath Tagore (2017). “Sadhana: The Realization of Life”, p.104, BookRix

topic: Passing On, Joy, Mind, Vagabonds

There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue we happen to have ourselves. It is typical of our time that the more doubtful we are about the value of philosophy, the more certain we are about the value of education. That is to say, the more doubtful we are about whether we have any truth, the more certain we are (apparently) that we can teach it to our children.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Children, Philosophy, Passing On

This whole theory of alienation that intellectuals have been passing on, really is just to stop a lot of ham acting. If you fill something with a proper emotion, it didn't worry him at all.

- John Hurt

source: Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

topic: Passing On, Worry, Acting

If you reduce sculpture to the flat plane of the photograph, you're passing on only a residue of your concerns... You're not only reducing the sculpture to a different scale for the purposes of consumption, but you're denying the real content of the work.

- Richard Serra

source: Richard Serra, Clara Weyergraf-Serra (1980). “Richard Serra, Interviews, Etc., 1970-1980”, p.170, Hudson River Museum

topic: Real, Passing On, Different

Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it...The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

- Barack Obama

source: "Tributes to Steve Jobs", www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2011.

topic: Believe, Thinking, Passing On

The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 1, l. 17

topic: Passing On, Two, Justice, Jury, Judge And Jury

It’s not about keeping up the population, it’s about passing on who we are and what we've learned, so things keep going. So we don’t just end.

- Isaac Marion

source: Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

topic: Passing On, Population, Who We Are

My work as a doula also extends all the way to the end of life. I sit at the bedsides of people who are passing on in hospices or nursing homes, for the people and families who want that kind of thing.

- Erykah Badu

source: "Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 10, 2015.

topic: Home, Nursing, Passing On, Doulas, Hospice

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

- Henry Austin Dobson

source: Proverbs in Porcelain (1877) "Paradox of Time"

topic: Life, Time, Times Gone By, Old Time, Short Time

They shouldn't call death passing on. They should call it leveling up. Because the game only got harder once I lost. And I was more than a little worried it had only just begun.

- Kami Garcia

topic: Games, Littles, Worried, Passing On

Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The premature death of millions is primarily traceable to this cause. Even among those who exercise care, it is a common mistake to avoid imaginary, and ignore the real dangers. And what is true of an individual also applies, more or less, to a people as a whole.

- Nikola Tesla

source: Nikola Tesla (2014). “My Inventions Nikola Tesla's Autobiography”, p.10, Lulu.com

topic: Real, Mistake, Exercise, Oblivious, Premature

The table is the number one place we pass on family stories and it's the knowledge of where your family came from that helps build self-esteem and resiliency in kids. When we stop having dinners, we stop passing on those stories. And, of course, when you make food at home you actually know what's in the food you are eating. It is the healthiest, greenest thing you can do!

- Laurie David

source: Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

topic: Self Esteem, Home, Kids, Resiliency, Passing On

Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea.

- Harvey V. Fineberg

topic: Views, Sea, Orbit, Genome, Passing On

There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music.

- Miroslav Vitous

topic: Country, Teacher, People, Czech, Passing On

I am the recipient of many benefits that I do not deserve and did not earn. Someone else paid for them. I am grateful! How do I show my gratitude? By daily pouring into others and passing on to them the things that will allow them to run far and achieve beyond what I have done.

- John C. Maxwell

topic: Running, Gratitude, Grateful, Passing On

The value of having an inner map of the world as it is (not as it's broadcast) is this: it allows you to know that your task is larger than yourself. If you choose, just by virtue of being a decent person, you are entrusted with passing on something of value through a dark, crazy time-preserving your integrity, in your way, by your acts and your very breathing for those who will build again when this chaos exhausts itself.

- Michael Ventura

topic: Integrity, Crazy, Dark, Crazy Times, Passing On

There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

- Barack Obama

topic: Jobs, World, May, Passing On

There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.

- James Dobson

topic: Children, Parent, Important, Passing On

I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.

- Diane Wakoski

topic: Long, Lines, Tradition, Long Lines, Passing On

The Treasury's plan has little for those outside of the financial industry. It is aimed at rescuing the same financial institutions that created this crisis with the sloppy underwriting and reckless disregard for the risk they were creating, taking or passing on to others.

- Richard Shelby

source: "CNN Newsroom" with Heidi Collins, www.cnn.com. September 23, 2008.

topic: Business, Creating, Risk, Financial Institutions, Passing On

If the professors don't start or continue to figure out who we are as a people, where we're going and where we've been, then in a sense we are not capable of passing on that knowledge to future generations.

- Khalil Gibran Muhammad

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: People, Generations, Who We Are, Passing On

Work hard, believe in your dreams, follow your dreams, don't give up, don't let failures hold you back. Those things were preached to me. They've taken a firm rooting system in my beliefs and what I'm passing on to my kids.

- Kevin Sorbo

source: "From “Hercules” to “Christmas Angel”: Kevin Sorbo talks about his personal journey and his role in GMC TV’s new yuletide film about the value of human kindness". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

topic: Dream, Giving Up, Believe, Passing On

Christ is not a reservoir but a spring. His life is continual, active and ever passing on with an outflow as necessary as its inflow. If we do not perpetually draw the fresh supply from the living Fountain, we shall either grow stagnant or empty, It is, therefore, not so much a perpetual fullness as a perpetual filling.

- A. B. Simpson

topic: Spring, Life Is, Christ, Passing On

I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on.

- Tom Hayden

topic: Home, Past, Grandparent, Respectability, Ireland And The Irish

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

- Questlove

topic: Giving Up, Mean, Persistence, Passing On

I wrote that President Bush is passing on to President-elect Obama two wars and an economic debacle. I call it a depression. And he is arming Israel against the Palestinians in every way in Gaza.

- Helen Thomas

topic: War, Two, Israel, Debacles, Passing On

Sometimes when she is able to spend the night with him they are wakened by the three minarets of the city beginning their prayers before dawn. He walks with her through the indigo markets that lie between South Cairo and her home. The beautiful songs of faith enter the air like arrows, one minaret answering another, as if passing on a rumor of the two of them as they walk through the cold morning air, the smell of charcoal and hemp already making the air profound. Sinners in a holy city.

- Michael Ondaatje

topic: Beautiful, Song, Morning, Cairo, Morning Air

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Two, One Day, Want, Passing On

Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.

- Michael Morpurgo

source: "Michael Morpurgo: We are failing too many boys in the enjoyment of reading" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2012.

topic: Teacher, Children, Book, Passing On

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

- Jennifer Lopez

topic: Opportunity, Should, Passing, Earrings, Passing On

Living a life fully engaged and full of whimsy and the kind of things that love does is something most people plan to do, but along the way they just kind of forget. Their dreams become one of those "we'll go there next time" deferrals. The sad thing is, for many there is no "next time" because passing on the chance to cross over is an overall attitude toward life rather than a single decision.

- Bob Goff

topic: Love, Dream, Attitude, Whimsy, Passing On

I'm not afraid of putting myself out there to someone and then them passing on it. At least you could have gotten a 'yes.' So it's worthwhile to have the cojones to do it.

- Carol Leifer

source: "The One Woman You MUST Know About Before Watching the Oscars This Sunday. (Hint: She's Known as the Real "Elaine" on Seinfeld!)" by Jessica Radloff, www.glamour.com. February 24, 2012.

topic: Cojones, Passing, Worthwhile, Passing On

How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith! Speaking about family life, I would like to say one thing: today, as Brazil and the Church around the world celebrate this feast of Saints Joachim and Anne, Grandparents Day is also being celebrated. How important grandparents are for family life, for passing on the human and religious heritage which is so essential for each and every society! How important it is to have intergenerational exchanges and dialogues, especially within the context of the family.

- Pope Francis

topic: Religious, Grandparent, Important, Privileged, Passing On

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

- Theodore White

topic: Ghetto, Reality, Men, Passing On

When as a child I laughed and wept, time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, time RAN. When older still I daily grew, time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.

- Henry Twells

topic: Children, Men, Gone, Passing On

We are finally living in Plato's cave, if we consider how those who were imprisoned within the cave - who could do nothing but watch those shadows passing on the back wall - were convinced that those shadows were their one and only reality. I see a profound similarity to all this in the epoch we're now living in. We no longer live simply through images: we live through images that don't even exist, which are the result not of physical projection but of pure virtuality.

- Jose Saramago

topic: Wall, Plato, Reality, Plato S, Plato's Cave

When you have children, you realize that at the end it's all about passing on, about handing down. The process of letting go, not attachment, but appreciating the beauty and value in the change, the transformation.

- Andy Serkis

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Letting Go, Children, Attachment, Passing On

Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality.

- Jeanette Winterson

topic: Spiritual, Political, Agendas, Passing On

Ladies like improv stilts, and I think men like improv giant cocks. But one of the great things about improv is that you get to play some roles you'd never get to play otherwise, you know, like the old Italian pizza-maker who's passing on the business down to his son. You get to play it all when you improvise.

- Amy Poehler

topic: Son, Thinking, Italian, Stilts, Passing On