Quotes of: Torch Keyword

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.

Michael Ondaatje

Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.

Jane D. Hull

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

Ambrose Bierce

There is in every village a torch- the schoolteacher; and an extinguisher: the priest.

Victor Hugo

Go back to that night when Divine Light, in order to illumine the darkness of men, tabernacled Himself in the world He had made… The angels and a star caught up in the reflection of that Light, as a torch lighted by a torch, and passed it on to the...

Fulton J. Sheen

210Suffering engenders passion; and while the prosperous blind themselves, or go to sleep, the hatred of the unfortunate classes kindles its torch at some sullen or ill-constituted mind, which is dreaming in a corner, and sets to work to examine soci...

Victor Hugo

I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?!

Torch Song Trilogy

I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.

Joan Jett

Indiana: Take this... [hands torch to Marion] Indiana: Wave it at anything that slithers.

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Best to flee now, before the pitchforks and torches and scientists come calling.

Bitter Blood

Logic kills. Faith burns. Better to be the one with the torch than the one on the pyre.

The Hollow March

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

Ban Ki-moon

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Ben Sweetland

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

James Cash Penney

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

Honor and Remembrance

Banks frown when employees torch the home of their principal account holder.

Restless Spirits

La lumière des torches ressemble à la sagesse des lâches; elle éclaire mal, parce qu'elle tremble.

Les Misérables

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

Marquis de Sade

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

Billy Graham

I've been amazed by the numbers that have come out to see the torch relay, so being a part of it is lovely.

Bryn Terfel

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg