Torches Quotes

177 Torches quotes by 141 unique authors

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
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
The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by. — Zhuangzi
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
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
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
May faith be the torch which illuminates, animates, and sustains you. — Margaret Mary Alacoque
By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation, — Carl Lewis
Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass… — Mark Twain
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
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
A Guru is not someone who holds a torch for you. He is the torch. — Jaggi Vasudev
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
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
We can still turn the world upside down. We can be living torches for Christ today. — David Jeremiah
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
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
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
At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if Iâ€™m â€œpassing the torch.â€ I explain that Iâ€™m keeping my torch, thank… — Gloria Steinem
To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All the trees have… — Lucy Larcom

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