Torch Quotes
185 quotes by 160 authors
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Children’s literature must build a bridge between the colorful dream world full of fantasy and illusion, and a tougher real world full of twists and…
— Samad Behrangi
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Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch.
— Michele Bachmann
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I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to…
— Dawna Markova
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Seeing the Way is like going into a dark room with a torch; the darkness instantly departs, while the light alone remains. When the Way…
— Gautama Buddha
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Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.
— Gautama Buddha
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The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark…
— Plato
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The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner…
— Joseph Stowell
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My heart was filled with gratitude, with thankfulness, and went out in love to all the heroes, the thinkers who gave their lives for the…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never…
— Charles Dickens
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Now that this torch is lit, we do not have time to dilly dally around...
— Joe Teti
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A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch,
— Michael Ondaatje
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As far as i am concerned, i am in the knowledge that death can never extinguish the torch which i have lit in Ghana and…
— Kwame Nkrumah
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The proletarians, driven to despair, will seize the torch which Stephens has preached to them; the vengeance of the people will come down with a…
— Friedrich Engels
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The man who finds a truth lights a torch.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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We make thousands of decisions everyday in automatic mode without a mistake. Yet we don't reflect and celebrate this wonderful mode of human decision making…
— Rob Long
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Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such…
— Robert B. Laughlin
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My guitar is my torch, my soul carries the flame. Make no mistake, I'm a true blues man.
— Big Bill Morganfield
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The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake,…
— Haile Selassie
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We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and…
— Benjamin E. Mays
Who Wrote These Torch Quotes
160 authors contributed a total of 185 Torch Quotes, led by these top contributors: