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Quotes About Candle

The teacher is like the candle which lights others in consuming itself.
~ Giovanni Ruffini
May every hair of your head be a wax candle to light you into glory, and may you be in heaven ten minutes before the devil knows you are dead.
~ Irish blessing
You must pray,' she says, very soberly. I assure you. Even just a little prayer, from time to time. Light a little candle. If it were not for the prayers of the blessed saints, one could not live in this world at all.
~ James Baldwin
The disturbing truth about science communication is that we have theories and ways of delivering messages that really are like putting a candle to the dark, as Carl Sagan would say. We aren't sure what will work, when, or how much. But for all that uncertainty, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
~ Kyle Hill
Wings can only flyas long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax criesfor ignitable wickJealous people burnto make your heart feel sick
~ Munia Khan
It is far better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.
~ W. L. Watkinson
CANDLE WISDOM If you knewwhat you will knowwhen your candlehas burnt low, it would greatlyease your plightwhile your candlestill burns bright.
~ Piet Hein
For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Candle light, moon light, star light, The brightest glow is from love light.
~ Terri Guillemets
My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
~ Vera Wang
I am, in fact, a candle salesperson's worst nightmare - or dream come true, depending on the salesperson.
~ Emily Weiss
Mother had told me her favorite story about a little Protestant lady who, on being told that the candle at the high altar in St. Peter's had not been out for a thousand years, pursed her lips and extinguished it, saying, Well, it's out now.
~ Vincent Price
My spine is soft like wax near the flame of the candle. I dream; I dream.
~ Virginia Woolf
Doom is nigh. I am in acute distress, desperately trying to coax sleep, opening my eyes every few seconds to check their faded gleam, and imagining paradise as a place where a sleepless neighbor reads an endless book by the light of an eternal candle.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Pues en Bulgaria dicen: Si pones una vela para Dios, pon dos para el diablo.
~ Laura Gallego García
Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
~ Charles Dickens
Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures," replied Estella, with a glance towards him, "hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
~ Charles Dickens
Every night,' said Mr. Peggotty, 'as reg'lar as the night comes, the candle must be stood in its old pane of glass, that if ever she should see it, it may seem to say, "Come back, my child, come back!
~ Charles Dickens
Then the strong-rooms underground, at Tellson's, with such of their valuable stores and secrets as were known to the passenger (and it was not a little that he knew about them), opened before him, and he went in among them with the great keys and the feebly-burning candle, and found them safe, and strong, and sound, and still, just as he had last seen them.
~ Charles Dickens
As mariposas, e todo tipo de criaturas horríveis, sempre rondam a vela. O que é que a vela pode fazer?
~ Charles Dickens
Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed.
~ Charles Dickens
Now is the flickering flame of a single candle Forever—the endless light of a galaxy of stars.
~ Terri Guillemets
With a single candle, night burns into infinity.
~ Terri Guillemets
Ba sighed and took out another candle for the lantern. The light from the lamp kept away the forest animals but it could do nothing for Ma's fury. Her resentment seemed to darken with the fading moon.
~ Grace Lin