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Quotes About Beacon

Beacon's leading light, one Orrie Hitt. I
~ Lawrence Block
In the end, Dodd proved to be exactly what Roosevelt had wanted, a lone beacon of American freedom and hope in a land of gathering darkness.
~ Erik Larson
The Lantos Human Rights Prize is intended to serve as a beacon of hope, justice and human decency in a world too often covered in a shroud of darkness.
~ Joshua Wong
Nearby, Lady Liberty hoists her torch in the harbor, a beacon to all who come to these shores to escape persecution or famine or hopelessness. For this is the land of dreams. The
~ Libba Bray
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
~ Benjamin Franklin
We have written the evidence of our existence onto the surface of our planet. Our civilisation has become a beacon, that identifies our planet as home to life.
~ Brian Cox
I feel that we're all lighthouses, and my job is to shine my light as brightly as I can to the darkness.
~ Jim Carrey
Six flashlights turned on, beacons that said, We're here, come eat us!
~ Anne Bishop
We believe that this is not right for a democracy to make revolutions the beacon of promoting democracy.
~ Sergei Lavrov
The U.S. is supposed to be a beacon of hope to the world - the shining city on a hill where freedom is available to all and individual liberties are protected.
~ Mark Meadows
Then silence, save for the rain thundering on the roof and splatting on the innyard mud. Silence, save for the soft crackling of the fire, and the distant music from the common room below. Silence but for unsteady footsteps making their way past our door. But most of all, the crashing silence in my heart where for so long Nighteyes' awareness had been a steady beacon in my darkness, a warmth in my winter, a guide star in my night.
~ Robin Hobb
One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.
~ James A. Baldwin
La luz dentro de ella era como un faro, y nunca más volvería a la oscuridad.
~ Anthony Hope
Our country has an opportunity to live up to our title as the leaders of the free world and to live up to our potential as being a beacon of freedom and hope and democracy - but not while that opportunity is not equal for everyone.
~ MJ Hegar
And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world.
~ Taylor Hackford
The most important reason I am concentrating on Winthrop and his shipmates in the 1630s is that the country I live in is haunted by the Puritans' vision of themselves as God's chosen people, as a beacon of righteousness that all others are to admire.
~ Sarah Vowell
America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty.
~ Chris Van Hollen
Why should a deserter take the trouble to light Rutupiae Beacon?" Aquila demanded, and his voice sounded rough in is own ears. "Maybe in farewell, maybe in defiance. Maybe to hold back the dark for one more night.
~ Rosemary Sutcliff
Oh yes, In Love , that demented rose-red circus tent whose half-light forgives all visuals, fig-leaves our lovers, and softens our own brains and the pain of our sawdust pratfalls. So tempting, that midway faux-marble arch, both funfair and classical— so Greek, so Barnum, such a beacon, with a sign in gas-blue neon: Love! This way! In!
~ Margaret Atwood
a generous beacon, a signal flare sent up so that people who are looking for you can easily find you.
~ Seth Godin
Who can tell? Together, with God's blessing — which surely He will not withhold — you may perhaps be laying the groundwork, the foundation for a future Athens, an Athens of the South. Yes. And this young woman's child, so soon to be born," he added, indicating Ella with a deferential nod, "will be one of its leading citizens, the one perhaps under whom it will come to flower, a beacon for the South, a torch held out.
~ Shelby Foote
The temples are a refuge from life's storms even a never-failing beacon guiding us to safety.
~ Thomas S. Monson
He stands out among the beacon lights of history as a man of vision dominated by a definite purpose.
~ John George Jones
We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on...
~ John Lennon