Torch Quotes - page 4

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up. (Albert Einstein)
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. View quote
John F. Kennedy
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. View quote
John F. Kennedy
You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright. View quote
Francesca Lia Block
Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill. View quote
Jean Sasson
I feel like it's my job to carry the torch. View quote
Joan Jett
We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. View quote
Ben Sweetland
I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation. View quote
Billy Graham
Plainly he was one of those rare people who burn with an inner fire-but the inner fire that never failed in James Arm-of-the-Lord was a brand of woe and a torch of terror to the Unrighteous. Nor was it lessened by the fact that the ranks of the Unrighteous, in James' estimation, included all those whose opinions in any way differed from his own. View quote
Gordon R. Dickson
QUEEN: But Hymen's torch, held downward, shall drop out, And for it, the mad Furies swing their brands About the bride-chamber. View quote
Thomas Dekker
Fourth, Lieutenant Commander Edward Ellsberg, Construction Corps, the salvage officer, was in direct personal charge of the actual salvage work and diving operations; his technical knowledge and resourcefulness were adequate for all of the innumerable setbacks and difficulties; he developed an improved underwater cutting torch, worked out the technique of handling the pontoons, learned to dive during the months the actual operations were suspended and actually went down on the wreck some three times during the spring operations; he was the embodiment of perseverance and determination. (Ernest King)
Life is a relay race that assumes the timely transfer of the torch of life to the next one, having fulfilled its purpose in the chain of generations and to remain in the life of future generations. View quote
Zafar Mirzo
Absyrtus in hot haste with his father's swift-assembled fleet draws nigh, and shakes a threatening torch at the escaping Greeks. View quote
Gaius Valerius Flaccus
O mother! hear thy country's plea: Nurture thy sons with spirits strong Led by the torch of truth whose flame Will banish ignorance and wrong. View quote
Ilia Chavchavadze
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. View quote
Alberto Tomba
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. View quote
Angela Ruggiero
I've been amazed by the numbers that have come out to see the torch relay, so being a part of it is lovely. View quote
Bryn Terfel
The 'Soul Train' legacy and brand are of the utmost importance to me and to 'Soul Train's' millions of fans. After years of offers, I feel the time is now finally right to pass the torch. View quote
Don Cornelius
Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City. View quote
Jane D. Hull
My pen.' Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch', ‘the paper', but ‘my pen'. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It's about the most important thing I own. View quote
John Marsden
The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom. (James A. Forbes)
Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay. View quote
Martin Jacques
A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something. View quote
Mo Rocca
I will carry on the torch of reviving Japan that the Democratic Party received from the people. View quote
Naoto Kan
I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good. View quote
Randy Savage