Torch Quotes
185 quotes by 160 authors
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May faith be the torch which illuminates, animates, and sustains you.
— Margaret Mary Alacoque
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By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation,
— Carl Lewis
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For if Chloe likes Olivia and Mary Carmichael knows how to express it she will light a torch in that vast chamber where nobody has…
— Virginia Woolf
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Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.
— Libba Bray
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A Guru is not someone who holds a torch for you. He is the torch.
— Jaggi Vasudev
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Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even…
— Peter Stuyvesant
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I had long ago discovered that when a word or formula refused to come to mind the best thing for it was to think of…
— Alan Bradley
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I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets…
— Randy Savage
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Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and humiliated. And it…
— Julius Nyerere
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At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.†I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank…
— Gloria Steinem
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The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it.
— Ronald Reagan
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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on,…
— William Blake
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Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea -…
— Karel Capek
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I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible…
— Jack Dee
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If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight…
— Samuel West
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I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to…
— Whitney Cummings
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The 'Soul Train' legacy and brand are of the utmost importance to me and to 'Soul Train's' millions of fans. After years of offers, I…
— Don Cornelius
Who Wrote These Torch Quotes
160 authors contributed a total of 185 Torch Quotes, led by these top contributors: