Torch Quotes
185 quotes by 160 authors
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I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.
— Angela Ruggiero
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What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The…
— Sydney J. Harris
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It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than…
— Billy Bragg
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It’s the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you’ll keep it under control. If you don’t make any noise, the bogeyman won’t…
— Sophie Scholl
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God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die…
— Khalil Gibran
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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
— Adam Weishaupt
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Light is everything in the world to men's eyes Light thirsts after light yes, the soul, twin to the stars moves through space to find,…
— Gunvor Hofmo
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The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a…
— Jean Giraudoux
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Living on purpose requires us to find what we love fiercely, give it all we've got and then pass it on, as if it were…
— Dawna Markova
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Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
— Adolf Hitler
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From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around…
— Jane Hamilton
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We should render thanks to God for having produced this temporal light, which is the smile of heaven and joy of the world, spreading it…
— Nicolas Caussin
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May you find the courage to walk your own path. May you dare to venture into the uncharted domains of your own heart. Here is…
— Yossi Ghinsberg
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I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until…
— Dawna Markova
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Prayer is the way to destroy all fear. It is the way to banish sorrow, the way to light a torch of hope. It is…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence --…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
— Zhuangzi
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Because Roman civilization perished through barbarian invasions, we are perhaps too much inclined to think that that is the only way a civilization can die.…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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We wandered the halls of an infinite magic nursing home, led by a hippo nurse with a torch. Really, just an ordinary night for the…
— Rick Riordan
Who Wrote These Torch Quotes
160 authors contributed a total of 185 Torch Quotes, led by these top contributors: