The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a…

I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.

— Leonard Cohen

I am not yours, nor lost in you, not lost, although I long to be. Lost as a candle lit at noon, lost as…

— Sara Teasdale

“We can allow ourselves to pass through the darkest valley without losing our light. One candle can lit millions of other candles, which are…

— Raphael Zernoff

As a book person and a movie person, I feel Jewish. My Dad was more Buddhist than anything, and on the West Coast I've…

— Jonathan Raymond

I'm imagining that paper books will evolve to become something akin to candles we have them in our homes and cherish their light but…

— Steve Leveen

The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.

— Robert Bly

I light candles because I want to have candles lit, not because I need to see!

— Jeremy Renner

In the cathedral of my heart a candle will always be lit for you.

— Hardy Kruger

Even this late it happens the coming of love, the coming of light. You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves,…

— Mark Strand

Walking into the great hall for the first time was absolutely incredible - all these effects with all the candles floating in the air,…

— Rupert Grint

For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .

— Tennessee Williams

Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Nisi Dominus custodierit domum, in vanum vigilant qui custodiunt eam," Unless the Lord guard the house, in vain do they watch who guard it.”

— Victor Hugo

Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.

— Desmond Tutu

Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post.

— Charles Caleb Colton