Quotes About Torch

Science is the catalyst of truth, a torch that illuminates the darkest corners of ignorance, transforming mysteries into knowledge.

It's not as if she needs the torch anymore, the welcome beacon to immigrants having been long since snuffed out. Probably

When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.

Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.

Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

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 working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.

I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains.

Happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.

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 book in the other. It is not a statesman or a god or a war hero who welcomes us to this new world. It is but an ordinary woman lighting the way- a lady offering us the liberty to pursue our dreams if we've the courage to begin.

A country road. Men swaddled in white call themselves knights, protectors of the empire. The ghosts of the Confederacy pass the torch, and the men set fire to the night.

A hint of triumph lit the girl's face, made her dark beauty blaze like a torch. "My sister is beyond your reach, Mr. Merrick." "You're not." He flavored his smile with menace.

Welding torches, cutting torches and any activity producing a flame outside is prohibited. Any open flame is discouraged.

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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 the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

Gratitude is like spring blooms, fine-smelling but short-lived. I'd keep a torch burning, d'you see, somewhere it brings to mind cities aflame. Make sure they stay grateful.

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 a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright.

Joe grinned. "We might never get Chet to leave this place!" Guests from the village began coming shortly after sunset. As the festivities got underway, torches were lighted to illuminate the area. One man arrived leading a bull and put it in the corral. Many of the younger villagers swarmed around the enclosure to see it.

I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

Carrying a torch," George Mouse called it, and Auberon, who had never heard the old phrase, thought it just, because he thought of the torch he carried not as a penitential or devotional one, but as Sylvie. He carried a torch: her. She flared brightly sometimes, sank low other times; he saw by her, though he had no path in particular he wanted to see.

Dark should torch of Truth be never, For it burns with love divine. Light it should all people, nations, In our hearts should be its shrine.

But even your best love is only an enraptured simile and a painful ardour. It is a torch to light you to loftier paths.

I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.

Because every ruler celebrated his conquests by setting torch to the nearest library. Did not Julius Caesar incinerate the scrolls in the great library at Alexandria during his campaign against the republicans in Africa? Or General Stilicho, leader of the Vandals, order the burning of the Sybillene prophecies in Rome?