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Quotes About Torch

Scientifically speaking," Quinn said, "the northern lights are electrical discharges resulting from the interaction between wind and the earth's magnetic field." "Oh." "But the Native Alaskans believe the lights were torches carried by old souls to guide the new souls into the next world.
~ Lori Wilde
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
~ Louis Pasteur
Bob has made fire torches to light people's way through the woods to the bonfire. Jo said, "I helped him make them, so I think if we call the fire brigade nice and early, perhaps about five forty-five, there's a good chance that some of the forest can be saved.
~ Louise Rennison
Night gets its own way in the end. The torches go out, the fire burns down to its internal organs, and the hall is charcoal and darkness.His mind shrinks as the heat dies, a ticking ember.
~ Unknown
The cuties I desire, I be the first to set it on off, flame on like the Human Torch.
~ Method Man
We cannot say. We are men only, a brief flare of the torch.
~ Madeline Miller
I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Dark vaild Cotytto, t' whom the secret flame Of mid-night Torches burns; mysterious Dame That ne're art call'd, but when the Dragon woom Of Stygian darknes spets her thickest gloom, And makes one blot of all the ayr
~ John Milton
Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.
~ Ellen Hopkins
Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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 I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
~ George Bernard Shaw
To build a bridge is a big step, to walk accross that bridge is a bigger achievement, but in order to continue your journey, you must light a torch, and burn that bridge down.
~ Unknown
But her eye, that torch or the soul, is untamed, and in the intensity of her reading, we see a soul invincibly young in faith and hope.
~ Margaret Fuller
It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.
~ Winston Churchill
Last night on the show I had Olympics fever. Unfortunately, it's getting worse. That's not good. I have to call my doctor if my torch burns for more than four hours.
~ Craig Ferguson
Age after age, when the wick of Righteousness burns low, the Avatar comes yet once again to rekindle the torch of Love and Truth.
~ Meher Baba
Sun gives light; torch gives light, candle gives light; smiling gives light.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
As he landed Wade said, was stepping through a wall of treacle The light, on your carbine,' and pointed with the torch he himself held.
~ Neal Asher
The real work, she saw now, had not been in the missions she had carried out herself but in training others to carry the torch when she no longer could.
~ Pam Jenoff
This war was only about greed, it seemed to me, and insanity. Adolf Hitler was a madman—everyone knew that—but he was also a child, a red-faced, angry baby bent on total dominion. There had been a time, perhaps, when the world could have joined forces to stop him, but that had come and gone. Now, there was only a chance to temper the size of the catastrophe, to staunch the loss of lives, thrashing back against evil with torches or pitchforks.
~ Paula McLain
If the word citronella makes you think of candles and torches, the people at the candle companies are doing their jobs right. But citronella isn't just for candles. You can wear it, too. Citronella is an essential oil derived from lemongrass, and it's one of the most beloved mosquito repelling substances around.
~ Unknown
For Zionís sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalemís sake I will not keep still, until her righteousness shines like a bright light, her salvation like a blazing torch.
~ Isaiah 62:1
On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among the sheaves; they will consume all the peoples around them on the right and on the left, while the people of Jerusalem remain secure there.
~ Zechariah 12:6