Lighthouse Quotes
74 quotes by 55 authors
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The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his…
— Robert Aris Willmott
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Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses…
— Louis Aragon
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A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home,
— Lea Michele
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Friends are like Lighthouses, with the sources of light coming from their hearts.
— Tom Baker
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A lighthouse is more useful than a church.
— Benjamin Franklin
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If we do not do this our churches will lighthouses without light, wells without water, dumb witnesses, sleeping watchmen, silent trumpets, messengers without tidings, a…
— Robert E. Lee
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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.
— Charles Simic
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For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not only as a lighthouse which illuminates and attracts, but…
— Errico Malatesta
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Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost…
— Thomas S. Monson
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In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral…
— Edmund Gosse
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Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off…
— Celia Thaxter
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Love is like a lighthouse, a beacon in the dark. When you lose the path that lights your way, you feel that you have died,…
— Laura Ramirez
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
— Navjot Singh Sidhu
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development…
— Barbara Tuchman
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There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: ferocity…
— M. L. Stedman
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At some time, often when we least expect it, we all have to face overwhelming challenges. When the unthinkable happens, the lighthouse is hope. Once…
— Christopher Reeve
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The lighthouse of the Lord sends forth signals readily recognized and never failing
— Thomas S. Monson
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Country music is always changing but the Opry is always there to serve as a lighthouse for what country music really is. The past, present…
— Dierks Bentley
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Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping…
— George Kubler
Who Wrote These Lighthouse Quotes
55 authors contributed a total of 74 Lighthouse Quotes, led by these top contributors: