Torches Quotes

177 Torches quotes by 141 unique authors

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
O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's… — William Shakespeare
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
If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't… — Harriet Tubman
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
Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch. — Ray Bradbury
Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill. — Jean Sasson
Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark. — Whoopi Goldberg
Burn, burn tree and fern! Shrivel and scorch! A fizzling torch To light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Bake and toast â€˜em, fry… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. — Ellen Hopkins
Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this — Leonard Cohen
Chiron, I don't think the attic is the proper place for our new Oracle, do you?" "No, indeed." Chiron looked a lot better now that… — Rick Riordan

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