Top 153 Lamps Quotes & Sayings

The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.

I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.

Our hearts are lamps for ever burning.

The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light.

We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us.

The foolish took their lamps, but took no oil (pursued ministry as their priority over getting oil). The wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps (pursued oil as their priority before ministry). At the dark midnight hour of history, the Spirit will raise up forerunners who cry out that Jesus is coming as a Bridegroom God and that we must go out to meet Him (make the necessary effort to encounter Him). They all slept which speaks of living in context to the natural processes of life.

I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.

The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all.

When I was a child, I used to help my mother decorate our house and prepare an elaborate spread of pretty lamps and flower rangolis.

In times of tragedies, our duty is to lend a helping hand to those in grief and thus light lamps of kindness and compassion.

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

It takes oil to keep the lamps burning.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick it in the ground; whisk the lamps away.

For a century, everyone assumed that the iconic Tiffany lamps were conceived and designed by that American master of stained glass. Not so! It was a woman!

Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?

For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.

Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

A genuine revival means a trimming of personal lamps.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.

Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.

Light that is One though the lamps be many.

I have a lamp problem. I'm addicted to lamps.

Henceforward the Christian Churches having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, came into the hands of the Encratites: and the Heathens, who in the fourth century came over in great numbers to the Christians, embraced more readily this sort of Christianity, as having a greater affinity with their old superstitions, than that of the sincere Christians; who by the lamps of the seven Churches of Asia, and not by the lamps of the Monasteries, had illuminated the Church Catholic during the three first centuries.

I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.

We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?

Be lamps unto yourselves; be your own confidence. Hold truth within yourselves.

I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.

What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

I enjoy creating lamps because lighting really changes my mood.

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

I have a karaoke lounge in my house, complete with a tiki bar and hula-girl lamps and disco balls.

Men are just like unlit lamps: in themselves they are no good for anything, but, when lit, they can be handy to have around the house.

Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps of stars.

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

I cried for madder music and for stronger wine, But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire, Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine.

Left Bank Astana was beautiful at night, each building, it seemed, with its own nighttime color scheme and the street lamps all going full blast.

Ultimately, musicians of the world must come to realize the potential of their calling... If the musician is illuminated from within, he becomes a lamp that lights other lamps.

God is the electricity and we are the lamps.

Lamps are different, but light is the same.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.

Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.

Heaven trims our lamps while we sleep.

One way of grounding the magic is by putting in lots of stuff about street lamps, carriages, and how difficult it is to get good servants.

My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.

I drink lots of water - being under hot lamps all day is very dehydrating.

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy before noon.

Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-lamps in the town.

He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.