Torch Quotes

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter. (José Martí)
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
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. View quote
Louis Pasteur
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. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end. View quote
Karel Čapek
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery. View quote
Karen Blixen
Science is a cooperative enterprise, spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher, to student, to teacher. A community of minds reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
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. View quote
Lucretius
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. View quote
Louis Pasteur
There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest. View quote
Victor Hugo
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch. (Michael Ondaatje)
Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age. View quote
Mahmud Tarzi
There is no country...where there are not somewhere lovers of freedom who look to this country to carry the torch and keep it burning bright until such time as they may again be able to light their extinguished torches at our flame. We owe it not only to our own people but to the world to preserve our soul for that. View quote
Stanley Baldwin
Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change. View quote
Jennifer Beals
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. View quote
Robert B. Laughlin
Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man. View quote
Thiruvalluvar
The scriptures bid us to send forth our light and our truth and when children carry within their hearts the torch of hope, they learn the darkness yields not only to man-made fire, but to starlight, to the rising sun, and to the light of the soul. View quote
Dennis Kucinich
Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the affection and the confidence of our kinsmen across the seas; so that in every vicissitude of fortune the British Empire may present an unbroken front to all her foes, and may carry on even to distant ages the glorious traditions of the British flag. View quote
Joseph Chamberlain
Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summ'd with all his substance. View quote
George Chapman
Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer ("pluslongtemps", Fr.); For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse (or bankruptcy) that already threaten, the whole civilisation will risks to disappear. (African Spir)
It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization. View quote
Hal Abelson
And there shall be for thee all soft delight That shadowy thought can win, A bright torch, and a casement ope at night, To let the warm Love in! View quote
John Keats
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. View quote
Pierre de Coubertin