Quotes About Lighthouse

Il paraît que ce matin-là, sur une digue, la lanterne d'un petit phare abandonné s'est remise à tourner, c'est l'ombre d'un souvenir qui me l'a raconté.

I have been described as a lighthouse in the middle of a bog: Brilliant but useless.

I saw a want ad. "light housekeeping." They said "Here, change this bulb." I said "I'll need some friends."

The Great Point lighthouse rose at the far end of the barrier beach, a tall white steeple to the sky, with a working light flashing at the top. Here was the end of the island, the great point where the Atlantic Ocean met Nantucket Sound in a froth of waves. All along the point, enormous fat seals lolled on the sand, occasionally lumbering in and out of the water, grunting and lounging like a tribe of overfed Roman emperors.

In writing this book, I send out signals, like a lighthouse beacon in whose power to illuminate the darkness, alas, I have no faith. But I live in hope.

On that island was a lighthouse I had seen every single summer of my entire life and my mother, too, had seen it her entire life, and I wondered how it might affect your way of thinking, if you always had a lighthouse in the corner of your eye.