Top 297 Torch Quotes & Sayings

Prophecy, that universal and perpetual torch by which faith is enlightened.

The man who finds a truth lights a torch.

Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America's torch alone. But it is America's duty - and honor - to hold it high enough that all the world can see its light.

The Statue of Liberty was never meant to be a symbol of immigration. It was meant to be a symbol of liberty and freedom. Lady Liberty is stepping forward. She is meant to be carrying the torch of liberty from the United States to the rest of the world. The torch is not to light the way to the United States. It is to light the way to liberty to the rest of the world. Lady Liberty is carrying the light of liberty to the rest of the world. It is not a beacon for immigrants to get to this country because they're tired, they're poor, they're huddled, hungry, or thirsty.

Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch.

Now that this torch is lit, we do not have time to dilly dally around.

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.

May faith be the torch which illuminates, animates, and sustains you.

I will carry on the torch of reviving Japan that the Democratic Party received from the people.

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.

You can rely on your team to do their jobs, but you have to carry the torch and do anything you need to, not just to shoot and finish, but to get the film seen. You have to know within yourself that you're going to have to take this. Don't sit back and think other people in your team are going to make it happen now because you've done your part. You have to carry that torch, and no one is going to care as much as you do, and nobody is going to live with it as long as you are because it's your film.

Truth is a torch which gleams in the fog but does not dispel it.

Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shock, it shines.

A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter.

The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner who finished with his torch still lit. I want to run all the way with the flame of my torch still lit for Him.

Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines.

Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.

Each American generation passes the torch of truth, liberty and justice in unbroken chain all the way down to the present. That torch is now in our hands, and we will use it to light up the world.

A Guru is not someone who holds a torch for you. He is the torch.

We just say things differently in Australia - like torch. I'd ask, 'Can I have the torch?' It seems to fall flat when I say, 'Can I have the flashlight?'

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.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She had never before been entrusted with fire. The torch spit sparks and sent chunks of flaming tar spinning into the air behind her as she bolted across the cosmos-the only body in the heavens who was not held to a strict elliptical path. Nobody stopped her. She was a comet. She did not know that she was not flying.

The torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games, of peace and togetherness. It's a good idea. And this idea is being misused. I believe in the Olympic ideal and in the torch that symbolizes this ideal. We should be condemning not those who have this ideal, but those who try to destroy it.

I feel like the torch has been passed to me. The question is what am I going to do with it.

Neither torch nor dagger," Annabeth said firmly. "There is a third test, which I will pass." "A third test?" the pater demanded. "Mithras was born from rock," Annabeth said, hoping she was right. "He emerged fully grown from the stone, holding his dagger and torch." The screaming and wailing told her she had guessed correctly. "The big mother knows all!" a ghost cried. "That is our most closely guarded secret!" Then maybe you shouldn't put a statue of it on your altar, Annabeth thought.

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation.

When men of infamy to grandeur soar, They light a torch to show their shame the more.

Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.

I've actually carried the Olympic torch through Stoke-on-Trent.

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

Ever hold your hand over a torch (sorry, a flashlight for you Americans).

I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.

P. Diddy's gonna be exhausted, you know, running with the Olympic torch in one hand and the torch he'll always carry for J-Lo in the other.

At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark.

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.

I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.

Man is a torch borne in the wind; a dream But of a shadow, summed with all his substance.

Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.

Judge not that ye be judged; we carried the torch to the goal. The goal is won: guard the fire: it is yours: but remember our soul. Breathes through the life that we saved, when our lives went out in the night: Your body is woven of ours: see that the torch is alight.

Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark - to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls, by rare fortune, are detained longer - have time to grasp a handful of tapers, which they weave into a torch. These are the torch-bearers of humanity - its poets, seers and saints, who lead and lift the race out of darkness, toward the light. They are the law-givers and saviors, the light-bringers, way-showers and truth-tellers, and without them, humanity would lose its way in the dark.

Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.