#candles

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. ↗

— Bob Hope

#cake #candles #cost #getting #getting old

I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things. ↗

— Joan Collins

#cushions #dressing #dressing room #even #i

I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#am #candles #earth #going #i

I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#box #candles #catholic #catholic church #church

I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#candles #doing #expensive #flowers #focal

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#come #dark #down #light #like

My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then. ↗

— Tim Murphy

#carts #coal #dangerous #great-grandfather #lit

When all candles be out, all cats be grey. ↗

— John Heywood

#cats #grey #out

How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored. ↗

— Jean Ingelow

#candles #gently #heaven #high #how

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. ↗

— Jane Porter

#candles #depriving #flame #imparting #knowledge