Torches Quotes

177 quotes by 141 authors

Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I feel like it's my job to carry the torch. — Joan Jett
It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom. — Winston Churchill
Childrenâ€™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… — Unknown Author
Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch. — Michele Bachmann
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
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
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
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
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
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
To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present. — Robert Green Ingersoll
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
Now that this torch is lit, we do not have time to dilly dally around... — Joe Teti
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch, — Michael Ondaatje
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
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
The man who finds a truth lights a torch. — Robert Green Ingersoll
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
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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