Quotes About Passing The Torch

#1. 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.

Gloria Steinem

#2. 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.

Gloria Steinem

#3. In every life, there comes a day of reckoning - a time when unsettled scores demand retribution, and our own lies and transgressions are finally laid bare.

Emily Thorne

#4. One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#6. If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.

Samuel West

#7. We get one chance at this life. We have one body, one mind, and one life to live. Reading provides us with a vicarious experience of others' lives.

Tony Reinke

#8. The river is within us, the sea is all about us;

T. S. Eliot

#9. I think it's [the AIDS fight] the most important and most pressing one - I think it's a global emergency and I think in a way we all have to address it and engage with it because I think it's the biggest threat to the human race that we have ever faced.

Emma Thompson

#10. Could any man resist the temptation of evil if he knew his acts could not be witnessed? Glaucon

Steven D. Levitt

#11. 'Crucible' was going to be a 'passing of the torch' story. So something that was big enough to be worthy of that, that could show these characters being changed - along with their respective outlooks about life, the galaxy, and the Force - was Mortis.

Troy Denning

#12. The best way to hide something is to put it in Plain Sight.

Robert Junior

#13. If I don't create, I don't exist.

Ingmar Bergman