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The best way to honor the legacy of a person who's passed is to find a way to support the living.
The Brady Act was passed in response to what Congress described as an 'epidemic of gun violence.'
There was a time and a place when a pure content start-up had a chance, and that time has passed.
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Both of my grandmothers were diagnosed with breast cancer - one is a survivor and one passed away.
Surveillance legislation passed in good faith has been stretched well beyond its original purpose.
Only a person who has passed through the gate of humility can ascend to the heights of the spirit.
My mother, Agnes Dereon Beyince, was a seamstress and designer, and her passion passed down to me.
I originally passed on 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head' in 1969, so they gave it to B.J. Thomas.
The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
I am a firm believer that federal agencies exist to administer laws passed by Congress, as intended.
A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.
I've taken legislation that people have been trying to pass for 10 or 15 years, and I got it passed.
I am lucky I have him. After my parents passed away, Boneyji has been my father, mother, and husband.
On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.
We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.
When I look back at the time that's passed, it makes me think that I'm actually quite a strong person.
I visited the Gymnasium in The Hague and passed my final examination (in the sciences section) in 1943.
If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new.
I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.
She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.
People have to remember this - I've literally been going at this music thing since my mother passed away.
Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
Tom Bosley may have passed, but through that part and that character, a part of him will live on forever.
The late, great Joan Rivers actually gave me so much advice, and she was so nice to me before she passed.
I think a lot of folks feel like Uber was a company they missed out on. Sequoia passed on us three times.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.
It takes a true encounter to realise that real animals, wild animals, have all but passed from our lives.
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
I have passed on a lot of things that would have been extremely lucrative, because they were nothing else.
Now, two years have passed and the situation is completely different: no one wants to organise this match.
Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.
If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.
Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.
After Obama was elected president, the same day Proposition 8 was passed, there was this fire in our belly.
The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting.
The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.
After Diana passed, I did not believe for one second that I would remarry or that I would be in love again.
The notion of time bothers me. You look at thirty-year-old photographs and realize how the time has passed.
Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.
The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
President Obama will go down as having passed some of the most historic bills in the history of this country.
It was suggested that I take a recording test. I passed, was liked and, well, you know the rest of the story.