Candle Quotes - page 4

Because your candle burns too brightwell, I almost forgot it was twilight. Even if I think that you are right, well, I'm tired of being down, I got no fight. You're wonderful, and it's beautiful, but I'm already somebody's baby. And if i went with you, I'd disappoint you, too. (Elliott Smith)
When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me. View quote
Alice Walker
It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out. View quote
Laurence Sterne
Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom. View quote
Rene Russo
I went to the store to bye a candle holder. They didn't have one so I got a cake. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
I still Light up like a candle burnin when he calls me up I still Melt down like a candle burnin everytime we touch Oh say what you will He does me wrong and I should be gone I still Be lovin you baby and it's much too much. View quote
Macy Gray
Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table. View quote
Marilyn vos Savant
There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light. View quote
Jodi Picoult
I light my candle from their torches. View quote
Robert Burton
Having failed, do you accept failure, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn to other things? When night comes, do you accept the blackness of it, saying only: Well, it is so. I will turn and wait for morning? Or do you go on striving to light a candle against that dark however often the wind blows out the flame, however often the night returns? View quote
Tanith Lee
The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who 'disappeared'. That's what the candle is for. (Peter Benenson)
The warm look of radiance on your face And your heart beating close to mine And the evening fading in the candle glow This must be what it's all about Oh this must be what it's all about This must be what paradise is like So quiet in here. So peaceful in here So quiet in here, yeah, so peaceful in here. View quote
Van Morrison
Goodbye England's rose, May you ever grow in our hearts. You were the grace that placed itself Where lives were torn apart.You called out to our country, And you whispered to those in pain. Now you belong to Heaven, And the stars spell out your name.And it seems to me you lived your life Like a candle in the wind, Never fading with the sunset, When the rain set in. View quote
Elton John
And it seems to me you lived your life Like a candle in the wind, Never knowing who to cling to When the rain set in. And I would have liked to have known you, But I was just a kid. Your candle burned out long before Your legend ever did. View quote
Elton John
On the Coast of Coromandel Where the early pumpkins blow, In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò. Two old chairs, and half a candle,- One old jug without a handle,- These were all his worldly goods. View quote
Edward Lear
A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they're so eager to get to the light on the other side. View quote
Michael Cunningham
She would rather light a candle than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out. View quote
Malcolm Gladwell
It is impossible to describe to the conditions under which the Jews of the ghetto are now living. Only a few will be able to hold out. The remainder will die sooner or later. Their fate is decided. In almost at all the hiding places in which thousands are concealing themselves it is not possible to light a candle for lack of air. View quote
Mordechai Anielewicz
It's amazing how much work you can get done in three days if you hold a blowtorch to each end of the candle. View quote
Charles Stross
I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep. (Richard Brautigan)
Some cry up Haydn, some Mozart, Just as the whim bites. For my part, I do not care a farthing candle For either of them, nor for Handel. View quote
Charles Lamb
She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing. View quote
Lewis Carroll
A candle throws its light into the darkness In a nasty world, so shines the good deed Make sure the fortune, that you seek Is the fortune you need. View quote
Ben Harper
Then brought they a fagot kindled with fire, and layd the same downe at D. Ridleys feete. To whome Maister Latymer spake in this maner: Be of good comfort maister Ridley, and play the man: wee shall this day light such a candle by Gods grace in England, as (I trust) shall neuer be put out. View quote
John Foxe