Beacon Quotes

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. (Honoré de Balzac)
I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of Good Work and Good Citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement. View quote
Howard Gardner
For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country. View quote
Spencer Bachus
America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining. View quote
George W. Bush
Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea. View quote
Samuel Beckett
South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world. View quote
Desmond Tutu
Your heart is the beacon, your heart is the storm. Dare to embrace it; you'll never be torn. View quote
Vanna Bonta
A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me. View quote
Jacques Maritain
To those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security: We support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope. View quote
Barack Obama
Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go out. (Rebecca Wells)
Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent--all depending on who wields it and how. View quote
Steven D. Levitt
Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay! View quote
Ada Cambridge
Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help. View quote
Chris Chocola
America stands as a beacon of hope and the possibility of a better life - but it is also a nation where nearly 1 in 4 children live in poverty. View quote
Chris Van Hollen
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination. View quote
Leslie Banks
Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it. View quote
Mike Ferguson
Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China. View quote
Nick Lampson
Oh for a poet - for a beacon bright. View quote
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Founded on rock and facing the night-fouled sea A beacon blinks at its own brilliance, Over and over with cutlass gaze Solving the Gordian waters ... View quote
Richard Wilbur
in the whole world, that day, there was not a more entirely unimportant-looking pair of people than this Miner and his Wife. And yet what were all Emperors, Popes and Potentates, in comparison? There was born here, once more, a Mighty Man; whose light was to flame as the beacon over long centuries and epochs of the world; the whole world and its history was waiting for this man. It is strange, it is great. (Thomas Carlyle)
For us [the young artists in Vitebsk, before 1920] Suprematism did not signify the recognition of an absolute form which was part of an already completed universal system, on the contrary; here stood revealed for the first time in all its purity the clear sign and plan for a definite new world never before experienced - a world which issues forth from our inner being and which is only now in the first stages of its formation, for this reason the square [ Malevich's Black and Red Square ] of suprematism became a beacon. View quote
El Lissitsky
In 7th grade, I saw the Allman Brothers play at the Beacon Theatre. I also saw the Dave Mathews Band perform at Giant's Stadium. Those concerts changed my life. I was inspired so much. In my heart, I knew that was the only thing I wanted to do with my life. View quote
Ross Mintzer
... we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing. View quote
Margaret Atwood
As we talk about the threat of extremism and the challenge of integration, we should not do our country down – we are, without a shadow of doubt, a beacon to the world. View quote
David Cameron