Torch Quotes

185 quotes by 152 authors

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress… — Adolf Hitler
Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City. — Jane D. Hull
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we… — Samuel Johnson
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation… — John F. Kennedy
To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're… — Queen Latifah
He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter. — Jose Marti
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation… — Louis Pasteur
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. — Louis Pasteur
I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps. — James Cash Penney
They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. — Marquis de Sade
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch… — Jean-Paul Sartre
My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom… — Yakov Smirnoff
Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for… — Graham Greene
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and… — George Bernard Shaw
It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as… — Ambrose Bierce
We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're… — Erma Bombeck
His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a… — Margaret Weis
You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding… — Francesca Lia Block
There in the city's steam-and-smoke-smudged harbor is the most extraordinary sight of all: a great copper-clad lady with a torch in one hand and a… — Libba Bray

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