Alight Quotes

41 quotes by 34 authors

The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that keep its field alight. — Rupert Hughes
On each race is laid the duty to keep alight its own lamp of mind as its part in the illumination of the world. To… — Rabindranath Tagore
O Jesus, come back into our society, our family life, our souls and reign there as our peaceful Sovereign. Enlighten with the splendor of faith… — Pope John XXIII
Amanda Petrusichâ€™s fascinating and insightful journey into the arcane netherworld of 78 records and its bring-â€˜em-back-alive collectors brims with the joy and passion of discovery,… — Lenny Kaye
It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom. — Winston Churchill
Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy… — Tahir Shah
Let my soul, a shining tree, Silver branches lift towards thee, Where on a hallowed winter's night The clear-eyed angels may alight. — Siegfried Sassoon
When you find your purpose, it is like your heart has been set alight with passion. You know it absolutely, without any doubt. — Rhonda Byrne
All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this the hard way.) If one… — Robert Greene
One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five… — Henry David Thoreau
Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight. — Robert Greene
The road comes to an end just when it ought to be getting somewhere. The passengers alight, shaken and weary, to begin, all over again,… — Stephen Leacock
People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them. — Philip Guedalla
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most… — Terry Pratchett
You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets… — Lloyd Jones
She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I… — Henry David Thoreau
I wonder,â€ he said, â€œwhether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again... — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden with a blue… — Anita Diament

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