Quote by Ken Burns Download Open image “The flame is not out, but it is flickering.” — Ken Burns ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
And whoever got the torch just can't seem to hold it steady cause I see the flame flickerin' — Drake Copy Share Image
Started as a flicker meant to be a flame. Skin has gotten thicker but it burns the same. — Sara Bareilles Copy Share Image
Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares… — Karen Hesse Copy Share Image
There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out? — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Sometimes our light goes out,but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
The reason why you do history, and particularly why you do war, is that you want to make sure that in the next war,… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans? — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived.… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story". — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
History isn't really about the past - settling old scores. It's about defining the present and who we are. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
We strain to listen to the ghosts and echoes of our inexpressibly wise past, and we have an obligation to maintain these places, to… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
