Torches Quotes

177 quotes by 146 authors

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. — Ambrose Bierce
I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn. — Mel Brooks
One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons. — Tilopa
Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed from race to race from… — Kelly Miller
This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only… — Robert Green Ingersoll
It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is… — Lord Byron
Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! — William Shakespeare
In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life. — Lucretius
Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. — Thomas Jefferson
As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don't know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can… — Kobe Bryant
The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those… — John F. Kennedy
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with… — Isak Dinesen
He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place… — Robert Green Ingersoll
To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life,… — Anna Garlin Spencer
She had been critical of his new torch song, "A Side Order of Heartache, Please," suggesting it could be used as a good way to… — Woody Allen
Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly. — Edward Dunlop
If you get up at three in the morning to go to the bathroom, man, why you have to turn on that little light? Put… — Hugo Chavez
We were incredibly fortunate to get to make three [Batman films]. That's enough. Let's not get greedy. It's a torch that should be handed from… — Christian Bale
President Bush has embarked on an eight-day tour of the continent. He hopes this one goes better than the other ones he's made recently. Obviously… — Stephen Colbert
A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse… — Mo Rocca

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