#torch

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch. ↗

— Shawn Wayans

#brooks #came #carrying #doing #homage

I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation. ↗

— Billy Graham

#generation #hands #i #need #new

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn. ↗

— Mel Brooks

#i #mission #torch

I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#blow #bulbs #chemistry #elementary #glass

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life. ↗

— Lucretius

#being #changed #creatures #dependent #diminish

We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and years and show no movement or desire to pass the torch. ↗

— John Mahoney

#desire #frustrated #incumbents #maryland #movement

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter. ↗

— Jose Marti

#being #could #jaws #pair #torch

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#instead #pen #scalpel #torch #uses

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#belongs #carries #country #first #furthest

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#footsteps #golden #golden rule #guided #i