Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The longest tyranny that ever sway'd Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle], And made his… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do. — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone wants others to do their work they call upon their Altruism. 'Never mind your own needs,' they say, 'Think of… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
Love is natural. Back of allceremony burns and will forever burn the sacred flame. There has been no time in the world's… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The torches ran off, and I found myself in a forest, at night, without any light, on skis, and that was not… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly. — Edward Dunlop Copy Share Image
Children’s literature must build a bridge between the colorful dream world full of fantasy and illusion, and a tougher real world full… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Bible stands apart from all other books, and has survived and will survive all the attacks of its enemies. It is… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
For if Chloe likes Olivia and Mary Carmichael knows how to express it she will light a torch in that vast chamber… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
We were incredibly fortunate to get to make three [Batman films]. That's enough. Let's not get greedy. It's a torch that should… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
And there shall be for thee all soft delight That shadowy thought can win, A bright torch, and a casement ope at… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions… — Peter Stuyvesant Copy Share Image
What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
