Top 100 Beacon Quotes
#1. For even in the pit of darkness, the beacon of humanity can always shine through.
Stewart Stafford
#2. It is the everlasting disgrace of the Clinton Administration that it has chosen to betray America's heritage as a beacon of freedom, and instead to act as the ally and agent of a police state in retrieving one of its prisoners.
David Horowitz
#3. Why should a deserter take the trouble to light Rutupiae Beacon?" Aquila demanded, and his voice sounded rough in is own ears.
"Maybe in farewell, maybe in defiance. Maybe to hold back the dark for one more night.
Rosemary Sutcliff
#4. The beacon is empty. There is no light. -Eleazar Wentzel (Weeping Well, Vol. 1)
Angel M.B. Chadwick
#5. Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all the world to see. The list of human and civil-rights abuses he's committed in Maricopa County is long and well documented.
Conor Oberst
#6. ( ... ) Trying to think of how to take the least crowded ways to class, so the least amount of people will stare at the hole in my neck. Sometimes it feels like it has a beacon in it, flashing for the entire world to see, except it's not cool like the Bat signal.
Keary Taylor
#7. Through knowing death we can hold a beacon of love for every moment that has just passed, for every friend who has lost a friend, for every child who has lost a parent, for every parent who has lost a child; for any suffering anywhere.
Sebastian Pole
#8. In the forestlichen writhes and assembles itself into signs to light my path through the deep dark north shadow; and I emerge at last onto a hillside strewn with logogrammatic stones, and scramble away from spruce tops." in the poem "Beyond the Beacon" from Terra Affirmative.
Jay Woodman
#9. Your happiness is a beacon of light in my life. Although you may not realize so now, your bright disposition will smooth many paths ahead for you. Whatever happens - don't ever let that light go out.
Jayne Castel
#10. Something about an inner value, about love; the love that shone from him as if from some kind of a beacon.
Bryan Islip
#11. And, lastly, there's a small pack of wide-eyed innocents in awe of my Beacon-ness who follow me around expecting me to perform a miracle any minute. Sometimes I screw up my face like I'm trying. Or constipated.
Eliza Crewe
#12. All of these are like sparks in the midnight sky, shedding their light on a world where even a flicker of hope shines like a beacon, illuminating the seas of darkness.
John A. Ashley
#13. A bright man of conviction and action is a beacon to his country,
but a flash light to the scurrying of inaction, ego, and insecurity of lesser men.
Daniel S. Green
#14. America was founded to be a beacon of liberty, particularly religious liberty. The framers of our Constitution sought to preserve religious liberty to such an extent that they made it the first right protected in the Bill of Rights.
Edwin Meese
#15. This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some definite goal. And a Utopia, however strange or fanciful, is the only possible beacon upon the uncharted seas of the distant future.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#17. Enveloped in Your Light, may I be a beacon to those in search of Light. Sheltered in Your Peace, may I offer shelter to those in need of peace. Embraced by Your Presence, so may I be present to others.
Rami M. Shapiro
#18. The coercive power of government is always a beacon to those who want to dominate others
summoning the worst dregs of society to Washington to use that power to impose their will upon others.
Harry Browne
#19. Transcendentalism is a beacon to the angels, even if it be a will-o'-the-wisp to man.
Bram Stoker
#20. Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
Paloma Faith
#21. One of the great disappointments of our time has been that the United States, a beacon of hope during the freedom struggles of the Asian peoples, succumbed to the views and greater colonial experience of nations grown to power in an earlier period.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
#22. I headed towards the mountain, which was an almost irresistible beacon to my storm self. It glowed with heat, pressure, and turbulence - everything a little dust devil like me could want.
Rick Riordan
#23. Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.
Vanna Bonta
#24. Even if I turned ninety, lost my mind and forgot everytging else, the memory of the Winter prince would be a shining beacon that would never fade
Julie Kagawa
#25. The light still shone in the dark, a beacon, drawing him forward to the edge of the map, the place where the cartographer might mark "here there be dragons.
Dennis Detwiller
#26. America is a beacon of hope for the world. And yet we are in so much trouble.
Kirk Cameron
#27. Let me tell you something, kid," said Mrs. H of Boston and Beacon Hill. "Magic is just a word for what's left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.
Catherynne M Valente
#28. Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!
Ada Cambridge
#29. South Africa, so utterly improbably, is a beacon of hope in a dark and troubled world.
Desmond Tutu
#30. Your heart is the beacon, your heart is the storm. Dare to embrace it; you'll never be torn.
Vanna Bonta
#31. A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Honore De Balzac
#32. The problem is that one cannot easily build Charleston anymore, because it is against the law. Similarly, Boston's Beacon Hill, Nantucket, Santa Fe, Carmel - all of these well-known places, many of which have become tourist destinations, exist in direct violation of current zoning ordinances.
Andres Duany
#33. Faith is catching a glimpse of a beacon piercing the fog of life and walking toward it, never knowing if heading in the right direction, but pressing onward.
Tom Hallman Jr.
#34. Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost.
Roberto Bolano
#35. A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world!
Adolf Hitler
#36. When America closes its doors, so does everybody else. We are the primary engine of growth in the world and we are the only beacon of free trade left, and open markets.
Jon Huntsman Jr.
#37. A great philosopher in the wrong is like a beacon on the reefs which says to seamen: steer clear of me.
Jacques Maritain
#38. Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.
Jim Jarmusch
#39. The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.
William Shakespeare
#40. When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.
Steve Wozniak
#41. We were too late for the elevated, and walked back downtown through Hanover Street. I remember that wall. We switched from Tremont up Beacon, and Pickman left me at the corner of Joy, where I turned off. I never spoke to him again.
H.P. Lovecraft
#42. Information is a beacon, a cudgel, an olive branch, a deterrent
all depending on who wields it and how.
Steven D. Levitt
#43. Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.
Nick Lampson
#44. Israel, the Jewish state, the only democracy in the Middle East, continues to shine as a beacon of light in the darkest region of the world.
Brigitte Gabriel
#45. By the time it came to the 90s, the late 90s, being a businessman was the beacon to uphold. We've been having the concept of the best rapper equals the best businessman ...
M.I.A.
#46. Maybe." I shrug. "But what I meant was, can't you use the makeup to cover it?"
Miles rolls his eyes and scowls. "Oh, so I can sport a huge flesh-colored beacon instead? Would you look at this thing? There's no disguising it. It's got it's own DNA! It's casting shadows!
Alyson Noel
#47. We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.
Mitt Romney
#48. The great beacon light God sets in all, the conscience of each bosom.
Robert Browning
#49. Wrinkles appeared and disappeared as he squinted his eyes and relaxed them, like someone peering into a strobe light, police car-top beacon, flashing neon beer sign.
Dennis Vickers
#50. Britain is still seen as a beacon for decency, for democracy, for vigorous judges upholding the rule of law and, dare I say it, a free press. I respect the press in theory, but when you see some of the things it writes about you, it's not exactly a happy relationship.
Cherie Blair
#51. For life is the best thing we have in this existence. And if we should desire to believe in something, it should be a beacon within. This beacon being the sun, sea, and sky, our children, our work, our companions and, most simply put, the embodiment of love.
Patti Smith
#53. I'm going to put a diamond on you the size of a lighthouse beacon. There won't be a man in this city who doesn't know you're married.
Kristen Painter
#54. All stars fall at some time. But a star is only a tiny spark from the great beacon in the sky.
Jostein Gaarder
#55. I have accepted that the world is a perpetually moving beacon, with a never-ending supply of new possibilities. And there is always room for second chances when you have eternity.
R.R. Washburn
#56. Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming into view, so Scripture may guide those adrift on the sea of the life back into the harbor of the divine will.
Gregory Of Nyssa
#57. For sound advice is a beacon, good teaching is a light, moral discipline is a life path.
Eugene H. Peterson
#59. If you know someone that has given up hope, try giving that person some of your peace, joy, and faith!
Molly Friedenfeld
#60. We don't see ourselves as just a place where we come to worship but as a beacon and a bearer of the culture and a bearer of what makes us a people. But I like to say that this is not necessarily unique to us. It is really what America is all about.
Clementa C. Pinckney
#61. We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization of Iraq and Afghanistan, we have been true to that calling and helped spread freedom to oppressed peoples everywhere.
Kay Bailey Hutchison
#62. I will be your light in the darkness and the pleasure during your despair. I am more than just your star, I will forever be your beacon. (My French is getting better.)
Ashley Pullo
#63. He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.
Jeremy Bentham
#64. Our Intuition is the beacon that guides us to peace, and navigates us through the treacherous Karmic waters.
Kim Chestney
#65. There should always be in sight the draw - a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.
Stewart Brand
#66. Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.
James Altucher
#67. The hermit Anthony once told me that a monk is like a fish: take him out of his element and he dies. Silence is his element. In silence you can trade this shoddy world for Heaven.
Gillian Bradshaw
#68. England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.
Bill Bryson
#69. The waves hit the cliff with more intensity than the shore, because the ocean knows the cliff has that masculine intensity which won't complain about her feminine energy.
Nityananda Das
#70. You shine like a beacon in a dark world.
Neil Gaiman
#71. 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.
Howard Gardner
#72. In the August night and the perspective of Beacon
Henry James
#73. Darkness shrouded everything and the only light was the strange pulse of lightning that illumed the sky like a distress beacon. A dying world signaling for help to the ancient Starcrafter who created it.
C.J. Anderson
#74. The sooner we put Egypt on the right track, the sooner we would be able to have an Egypt that is modern, that is moderate, and that is acting as a beacon for freedom and liberty across the Arab world.
Mohamed ElBaradei
#75. Normally an infant learns to use his mother as a "beacon of orientation" during the first five months of life. The mother's presence is like a fixed light that gives the child the security to move out safely to explore the world and then return safely to harbor.
Louise J. Kaplan
#76. Houses were dark in the August night and the perspective of Beacon Street, with its double chain of lamps,
Henry James
#77. Exalt the Cross! God has hung the destiny of the race upon it. Other things we may do in the realm of ethics, and on the lines of philanthropic reforms; but our main duty converges into setting that one glorious beacon of salvation, Calvary's Cross, before the gaze of every immortal soul.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#78. Hope was a beacon but it also had the strength of a bully.
Deb Caletti
#79. I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.
Octavia Spencer
#80. Let your devotional life be the beacon that guides you through the tough terrain you will face.
Ravi Zacharias
#81. 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.
Chris Van Hollen
#82. It is my greatest wish that the Children's Fund should continue to be a beacon of hope and light.
Nelson Mandela
#83. 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
#84. Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples
Aga Khan IV
#85. What if desire wasn't an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed?
Danielle LaPorte
#88. A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#89. She was his beacon to what others called decency, not because she told him how to act but because she made him want to try.
Thea Harrison
#90. Is it me? Is it like I have a beacon that only dogs and men with severe emotional problems can hear?
Lisa Kudrow
#91. SEN. McCARTHY: You will teach morality, ethics, and good house-keeping to these 48 states, and to the world. By order of this committee, June Cleaver, you will be a beacon! You will sire the future and teach it what we tell you to teach it! Echo effect, echo effect, echo effect ...
Benjamin R. Smith
#92. Facebook is by far the largest of these social networking sites, and starting with its ill-fated Beacon service, privacy concerns have more than once been raised about how the ubiquitous social networking site handles its user data.
Michael Bennet
#93. There is a hard core of people in the United States who will not be moved, whatever facts you present, from their conviction that this nation means only to do good, and almost always does good, in the world, that it is the beacon of liberty and freedom.
Howard Zinn
#94. I want to burn as a beacon of possibility. I don't want nobody to misconstrue the commercial success I've had as anything other than an example of what black music is capable of. And what it's capable of is being more than just black. I'm not black or white anymore. I'm Cee Lo Green.
CeeLo Green
#95. Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
H.P. Lovecraft
#96. My beacon is gone and I'm drowning now. The storm is all around me and I can't even save myself. I don't even know if I want to.
She's gone.
David Levithan
#97. The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#98. There are great things that Britain can do in the future as a progressive beacon. By voting Leave, we have that opportunity.
Michael Gove
#99. Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles, we remain the beacon of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. Never give up the fight for freedom - a fight which, though it may never end, is the most ennobling known to man.
Ronald Reagan
#100. America has been a beacon of hope for vulnerable people throughout the world.
Jim Edgar
