Devolves Quotes

Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile. - Grenville Kleiser

So in the summer of 1864, Ebenezer prepares to go to war and his wife happens to be confined to bed. She has just delivered a child and it was a very difficult delivery and she's not fit to run the plantation--and isn't going to be for quite a while. So the management of Somerset Plantation devolves on the oldest child, 16-year-old Anne Carter. - Porter Goss

If, as is certainly possible, the situation devolves down to civil war or separatism, then no amount of military action can really deal with the problem. - Anthony Cordesman

Do not move your tongue with it to make haste with it, / : Surely on Us (devolves) the collecting of it and the reciting of it. - Quran

But if they turn back, then on you devolves only the clear deliverance (of the message). - Quran

And the mothers should suckle their children for two whole years for him who desires to make complete the time of suckling; and their maintenance and their clothing must be-- borne by the father according to usage; no soul shall have imposed upon it a duty but to the extent of its capacity; neither shall a mother be made to suffer harm on account of her child, nor a father on account of his child, and a similar duty (devolves) on the (father's) heir, but if both desire weaning by mutual consent and counsel, there is no blame on them, and if you wish to engage a wet-nurse for your children, there is no blame on you so long as you pay what you promised for according to usage; and be careful of (your duty to) Allah and know that Allah sees what you do. - Quran

And nothing devolves on us but a clear deliverance (of the message). - Quran

Again on Us (devolves) the explaining of it. - Quran