#lamps

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #lamps




Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.


Hu Shih


#chinese #electric #elimination #gas #i

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.


Edward Grey


#europe #going #lamps #lifetime #lit

Vasco bought a bottle of vodka to celebrate and they drank it in the old sailors' graveyard in Mangrove South. This was where the funeral business had first put down its roots. Over the wall, between two warehouses, Jed could just make out the Witch's Fingers, four long talons of sand that lay in the mouth of the river. Rumour had it that, on stormy nights a century ago, they used to reach out, gouge holes in passing ships, and drag them down. Hundreds of wrecks lay buried in that glistening silt. The city's black heart had beaten strongly even then. There was one funeral director, supposedly, who used to put lamps out on the Fingers and lure ships to their doom.


Rupert Thomson


#doomeded #lamps #ship #witch-s-fingers #wrecks

Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.


Henry Timrod


#burns #court #dark #fragrant #green

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.


George William Curtis


#burning #ever #lamps #wisdom

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.


Virginia Woolf


#beginning #consciousness #end #envelope #gig

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.


Walter Savage Landor


#chambers #colour #enchanted #every #face

Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.


John Lasseter


#animation #baby #big #computer #could

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.


John Milton


#everlasting #filled #give #heaven #hung

The lampstand was position strategically to do one things: cast its light on the table and on the bread that represented God's provision and presence. For generations the lampstand of the tabernacle stood to highlight the object that best represented God's goodness and provision, the same object that Jesus would one day use to symbolize His own body. (Jesus compares church to a lampstand in Revelation- a strong reminder of the church's responsibility). Everything about these churches 0 their teaching, practices, and work-- was challenged for one reason in Revelation: They were losing their effectiveness as God's light to their communities.


Reggie Joiner


#lampstand #family