#torch

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#bigger #bold #box #cave #computer

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#cannot #dangerous #examined #light #mortal

I feel like it's my job to carry the torch. ↗

— Joan Jett

#feel #i #i feel #i feel like #job

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#been #bitter #born #century #disciplined

Enter with the torch in the stadium. 80,000 people screaming. I was waiting downstairs for the start for 10 hours; I was so tired with the torch. I give the torch to the combined ski cross country that they win gold in Lillehammer in 1994. ↗

— Alberto Tomba

#country #cross #cross country #downstairs #enter

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#bothering #declaim #flame #lights #passions

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#choose #circumstances #class #creating #every

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own. ↗

— Ben Sweetland

#cannot #hold #light #our #own

I've been amazed by the numbers that have come out to see the torch relay, so being a part of it is lovely. ↗

— Bryn Terfel

#been #being #come #i #lovely

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#belongs #country #humanity #illuminates #knowledge