Torch Quotes

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

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

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

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

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

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

Enter with the torch in the stadium. 80,000 people screaming. I was waiting downstairs for the start for 10 hours; I was so tired with the torch. I give the torch to the combined ski cross country that they win gold in Lillehammer in 1994.

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

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

We just say things differently in Australia - like torch. I'd ask, 'Can I have the torch?' It seems to fall flat when I say, 'Can I have the flashlight?'

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

Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines.

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

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

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch.

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

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.

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.