Top 100 Quotes About Torches
#1. It was incredibly cheesy set with torches [TV's Survivor] - it looked like the lobby of the Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyland. And here as some guy pulling names out of a coconut, and I said, 'This is the thing that has made American mass media stop in their tracks?
Tom Hanks
#2. Hippopotami should not have human hands and carry torches ... men should not have the heads of crocodiles ...
H.P. Lovecraft
#3. And in the evening, everywhere
Along the roadside, up and down,
I see the golden torches flare
Like lighted street-lamps in the town.
Frank Dempster Sherman
#4. Some men carry torches for old loves, and then some guys - not many, but some - get completely consumed by the torch's flames. It makes them nothing but long-term trouble for the follow-ups.
Harlan Coben
#5. Naked, tattooed men meandered around, lit torches, congregated in groups, spoke in hushed voices. It was like pictures I had seen on the internet of Comic Con, except no one was wearing a cape. And there were no females. So, yes, it was just like Comic Con.
Heather Rigney
#6. Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.
Ray Bradbury
#7. The past is a dark house, and we have only torches with dying batteries. It's probably best not to spend too much time in there in case the rotten floor gives way beneath our feet.
Mal Peet
#8. Their meal was illuminated by torches, which Gwen found were utterly without fire. What the children called torches were really just small platforms on tall, wooden poles. The reason they radiated light was because fairies had flown up to them to waltz and glow on the tiny dance floors.
Audrey Greathouse
#9. If you write a bad book, mobs do not show up with pitchforks and torches - and odds are you didn't write something bad.
Dan Alatorre
#10. The intelligent are candles,
the virtuous are torches,
the wise are lamps,
and the enlightened are stars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#11. 2 redstone torches 2 redstones 1 furnace
Gold KID
#12. God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.
Joseph Joubert
#13. We are all here for a reason.I believe the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people thru the darkness.
Whoopi Goldberg
#14. One of the things 'Minecraft' is most noted for is the freedom it gives the players to build and experiment with the tools. You start off with simple objects; axes, torches, helmets and swords. With a little time and experimentation, you move to switches, complex machines, mine carts, glass.
Rob Manuel
#16. The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
Felix Adler
#17. Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for faith, hope, and love are three torches which blend their light together, nor does the one shine without the other.
Pietro Metastasio
#18. Let us throw away our candles and our torches. Let us flood the cities with light. Let us bring a new light to men!
-Equality 7-2521
Ayn Rand
#19. Persephone herself is but a voice
or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark
of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom,
among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the
lost bride and her groom.
D.H. Lawrence
#20. I was struck dumb by his incredibly beautiful blue eyes, which shone like sapphires in the soft light of the torches. One look was all he needed to win over any woman. Everything about him oozed confidence, greatness, power, and sex appeal.
Sharlyn G. Branson
#21. How did people manage before there were flashlights?" Chen asked.
"With torches, wood wrapped with butter-soaked felt. They were as bright as these, and the wolves were scared to death of them. If one came at you, you could burn it's fur.
Jiang Rong
#22. The torches ran off, and I found myself in a forest, at night, without any light, on skis, and that was not fun - particularly because I was drunk. Luckily at some point I started to see the light of the ski lift. To be in the forest in the middle of the night, it's terrible.
Roman Polanski
#23. Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.
Richard Hooker
#24. Reconquer the streets, the markets - the public spaces, with the same message of opposition: We are devastated, but we will not give up. With torches and roses, we deliver this message to the world: We do not let fear break us. And we do not let the fear of fear silence us.
Jens Stoltenberg
#25. Dark vaild Cotytto, t' whom the secret flame
Of mid-night Torches burns; mysterious Dame
That ne're art call'd, but when the Dragon woom
Of Stygian darknes spets her thickest gloom,
And makes one blot of all the ayr
John Milton
#26. Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
Thomas Jefferson
#27. We can still turn the world upside down. We can be living torches for Christ today.
David Jeremiah
#28. Welding torches, cutting torches and any activity producing a flame outside is prohibited. Any open flame is discouraged.
John Glover
#29. One by one, the villager torches are lit, and a fire spreads through their circle until it blazes like an enormous bullion ring.
Joanna Wiebe
#30. If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.
Harriet Tubman
#31. 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
#32. Those having torches will pass them on to others.
Plato
#33. Not only did the angry villagers hound their monsters to the edge of town, they reproached her for being vulnerable to the torches.
Susan Stryker
#34. In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life.
Lucretius
#35. I know what love feels like, but this, this man ... fuck me. Steals my breath. Knots me up. Torches me."
"No, this is what denying love feels like, man. Why you denying your heart?
Adrian Phoenix
#36. The torches went out, and in the darkness, he placed his lips to my ear. I believe you because I choose to; not because I do.
Peter S. Beagle
#37. puts her little finger in my face. "I don't speak Behemoth, so I'll talk slow. You should learn some manners before the villagers chase you with fiery torches. You shouldn't go around putting your hands on people, no matter how hot you are.
Alexa Riley
#38. (Whichever way you look there is a din of tumult; Whichever way you go there are flames and torches; For tonight this world is heavy with labour pain; To give birth to a world which will forever remain.)
Khushwant Singh
#39. He (the Emperor) once said of ancient Earth that there were torches, who were the teachers, but also extinguishers, who were the priests.
Graham McNeill
#40. Their useless torches on dry hedges throw,
That catch the flames, and kindle all the row;
So burns the God, consuming in desire,
And feeding in his breast a fruitless fire
Ovid
#41. [The main road was] now teeming with people carrying torches, pitchforks, and rakes, and one very confused man who apparently had mistaken the mob for a parade and was marching around with a Swedish flag.
Cuthbert Soup
#42. Jane's face could have taught those torches to burn bright. Last night, she was the sun, and all of the flowers in all of the counties turned toward her for warmth.
Cynthia Hand
#44. From afar they raise their voices like torches, and they cry out, as from some lofty and conspicuous watchtower, admonishing us where to walk and how to direct the course of our work steadily and safely.
Eusebius
#46. Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see.
Henry George
#47. Best to flee now, before the pitchforks and torches and scientists come calling.
Rachel Caine
#48. Memories are our strength. When night attempts to return, we must light up the great dates, as we would light torches.
Victor Hugo
#49. O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.
- Romeo -
William Shakespeare
#50. Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, these towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue!
Jean Cocteau
#51. Alone in the hallway, Celaena watched the shadows cast by the torches. It hadn't been the mere impossibility of a relationship with Ilias that had made her pull away.
No; it was the memory of Sam's face that had stopped her from kissing him.
Sarah J. Maas
#52. It is high time that we had lights that are not incendiary torches.
George Sand
#53. The universe, I realize, is full of little torches. Sometimes, for some reason, it's your turn to carry one out of the fire - because the world needed it, or your family needed it, or you needed it to keep your soul from twisting into a shape that's entirely wrong.
Hilary T. Smith
#54. The light of torches resembles the wisdom of cowards; it gives a bad light because it trembles.
Victor Hugo
#55. To her bier Comes the year Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do, But, to guide her way to it, All the trees have torches lit; Blazing red the maples shine the woodlands through ...
Lucy Larcom
#56. We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.
Whoopi Goldberg
#58. The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes.
Cormac McCarthy
#59. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
William Shakespeare
#60. The torches flared and died and flared again. The Rocinante was remade a little, the same way it had been over and over through the years. Little changes adding up over time as the ship moved from what it had been to what it would be next. Just like all the people she carried. "You
James S.A. Corey
#61. 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
#62. I watched as my slippers reflected the torches when I was handed out of the carriage. When I looked up, I gasped. I had heard of the lovely palace of the king, but nothing had prepared me for the glittering jewel that was in front of me.
Sarah Holman
#63. To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#64. The angry mob of villagers wield camera phones, the twenty-first century equivalent of pitchforks and flaming torches.
Erin Kelly
#65. She felt like a juggler tossing torches into the air. The circus-master kept throwing more in. Sooner or later, one would fall, and the life she'd built would burn to cinders.
Courtney Milan
#66. Ah, she doth teach the torches to burn bright, it seems she hangs against the cheek of night like a rich jewel from an Ethiope's ear, beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.
William Shakespeare
#67. Dear Hitler
Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this
Leonard Cohen
#68. I discovered this myself when I was woken up in the middle of the night and chased sixteen miles by an angry mob armed with torches, swords, and vicious dogs,
Lemony Snicket
#69. A year ago he had been in America. Two years ago he had been straight. Tonight he was underground, with the remains of the bogey man, lit by the torches of the children who had killed him.
Caleb Crain
#70. Could have cried aloud in exultation when my scrutiny disclosed the almost invisible incrustation of particles of carbonized electrons which are thrown off by these Martian torches. It
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#71. Torches just blind you. On a clear night like this, the moon and the stars are enough.
George R R Martin
#72. Torches," Porak ordered.
"This is dumb," Jig grumbled as one of the others handed out torches. "Why not run ahead and warn any intruders that we're coming? Maybe we should sing, too, in case they're blind.
Jim C. Hines
#73. Let us each take up our flaming torches and mount as the blazing fireballs of light that we are and let's burn the skies and leave it with deep scars and let them be our signatures upon eternity as we go forth!
C. JoyBell C.
#75. 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.
Doug Benson
#77. I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation.
Jim Cummings
#79. Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.
Edward Dunlop
#80. The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.
Zhuangzi
#81. A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.
Edmund Burke
#83. Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.
Hal Abelson
#84. Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous
Muhammad Ali
#85. I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.
Rosanne Cash
#86. Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness.
Rajneesh
#87. Now that this torch is lit, we do not have time to dilly dally around ...
Joe Teti
#88. I feel like the torch has been passed to me. The question is what am I going to do with it.
Ato Boldon
#89. The longest tyranny that ever sway'd
Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd
Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle],
And made his torch their universal light.
So truth, while only one suppli'd the state,
Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.
John Dryden
#90. It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.
Winston Churchill
#91. Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.
Thomas Watson
#93. A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter.
Walter Scott
#94. Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.
Heinrich Heine
#95. One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.
Tilopa
#97. Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.
Mahatma Gandhi
#98. Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.
Jennifer Beals
#99. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
William Shakespeare
#100. We were incredibly fortunate to get to make three [Batman films]. That's enough. Let's not get greedy. It's a torch that should be handed from one actor to another. So I enjoy looking forward to what somebody else will come up with.
Christian Bale
