Torch Quotations

My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope I've carried from him a little bit of a sense of irony, a little bit of a wink.

Nationalism of the Irish type is often regarded as reactionary. With the World Revolution and the Classless Society waiting for the midwife, why take a torch to the stable to assist at the birth of a puppy? Even if the puppy is pedigree. On this question I am unable to make up my mind.

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

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay.

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

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.

I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.

Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth.

The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world.

We're going to make sure we give the torch a good show,

Words cannot express how proud I am to be carrying the Olympic Torch for my home, New York, New York - the greatest city in the world.

We have to hand the torch to the next generation.

We wanted to win Metro to continue our legacy. It's keeping the tradition going that was passed on from (former players) Jamal (Crawford), Rod (Stewart), D. Hudson and David King. It's all about passing the torch and keeping it going.

We decided, in dedication of the Olympics, to ski down the hill with a torch and the American flag. Then we added three states around us, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. We added some of the instructors.

(Lee is) a joyful raconteur, a woman with grit, grace and humor. Lee is the desert's lover. Her voice is a torch in the wilderness.

Many people in Taiwan hope that the torch relay of the sacred flame of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games can also cover Taiwan.

I don't feel any of the shadow. I know who I am. I'm proud to be the one carrying the torch at this time.

I am confident that the passing of the torch from Chairman Greenspan to his successor will be smooth and seamless.

I felt I was passing the torch from one generation to the next.

He won't have a short leash, ... We'll let him play and stay with him, and we expect him to take the torch and play well.

The purpose of this is to deter Slobodan Milosevic from continuing on his rampage and going in and torching, having his soldiers and his special police torch the villages. It is designed to deter that and also to damage his capability to do that.

We suspect that the fires (in the Meadows) were caused by firecrackers. Fireworks are illegal on campus for this very reason. We certainly don't want to torch the Meadows.

He kind of passed the Olympic torch to me.

I think it means the world to Brian. Adam would be honored to pass the torch to Brian.

It almost seemed as if the Statue of Liberty had gone on tour, turning in her torch for a Yonex racket.

Our community needs hope. Our student-athletes represent hope for them. They will carry the torch and be the face, and display the name of Tulane University and the New Orleans community until we are able to come home and do that on our own campus.

PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of anyone ambitious to illuminate his name.

PATRIOTISM, n. Combustible rubbish read to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.

I think he one-upped me this year. It's really tremendous. I can't think of a more deserving guy, obviously, and he's not just a great football coach but a great man. I'm just really excited to be able to pass the torch to him because he's just that deserving.

John loved this community and he loved the people he wrote about. In his eyes and in his heart, he viewed all the kids he covered as 'his kids.' He was a great talent, but an even better person. Through the Daily Light John Hicks Memorial Scholarship, we can help John pass the torch that he carried so well.

(My children) need to pick up the torch and keep on moving.

We had two members who wanted to retire to director emeritus status. After six years, I think they were ready to pass the torch on.

We got to know Torch, and I think Torch impressed Dave with his interview. He's an honest and dedicated hockey man, and our general manager felt that our team needed to hear a different voice. Torch can bring that.

You know when you walk into a dark room without a light you can't tell what is truly in it, riches or stones. This is much like life, you need to be an illuminating torch and reveal the hidden treasures of the world

We are, without question, moving into a new era. On the other hand, we have a group of players now who have been together for a while who are ready to carry the torch forward.

We will have a torch run at 2 p.m. and will light an Olympic cauldron to play up the Olympic theme.

We were obviously thrilled when we were approached with the opportunity to light the spear. Obviously we have so much respect for our football program and to be the first team to experience that lighting of the torch for a special occasion is really awesome.

What continues now is to keep the torch burning and not let the world ever forget what a pedophile is.

Torch and I go back a long way, ... We first got acquainted in the Central League when I was in Fort Worth and he was in San Antonio, and we both coached in the IHL. It's always good to have another voice for the players, especially one with as much experience as John has. He's been at hockey's highest level, and that means something to players.

We are still in the preliminary phases of the general outlook of the torch relay but the route is not yet defined. The practical circumstances of the torch relay and the whole format is still under discussion.

As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year's Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave the American men's hockey team a chance against the world powers.

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.

(Equipment manager) Peter Millar and I decided to do that so I could make sure all the people who have been involved and all my friends and family can get a little piece of this. I brought about 30 sticks. I told Torch he's going to have to play me a lot so I don't have to change sticks on the fly.

There's room in this movement for everybody. 50 percent of the people that came out today were young people and that's very encouraging. That shows us that we not only have a sense of resilience, but I see the torch of leadership being passed to young brothers and sisters in a new generation who are rising to the occasion out of their own rights. And the momentum of this day will be felt in communities throughout the nation.

The torch will also go to the top of Mount Everest as it is known in the west. This has never been done before.

The torch relay will raise the thermometer further, increasing the passionate attitude and creating a warm Olympic atmosphere.

The Torch Drive is one of the key activities that gets individuals to come together to generate resources and strengthen community response on pressing social issues.

The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America's torch alone. But it is America's duty - and honor - to hold it high enough that all the world can see its light.

I've been on the council for 10 years. I think it's time to pass the torch on to someone else.

The slogan of the Beijing Games One World, One Dream will also be the theme of the torch relay. Through the torch relay, we hope to promote the Olympic spirit of peace, friendship and progress globally and send the good wishes of Chinese people to the whole world.

Do you need proof of God? Does one light a torch to see the sun?

a true partner for (Yitzhak Rabin) all along his life, and the woman that carried the torch of the peace process since her husband was assassinated.

A work team will be set up this year to prepare for the torch relay.

Yvan carried the torch so high, he brought it even higher than I did. I never expected this to happen for me, but I'm really honored.

Also, global concerns have pushed money to the sidelines and it has remained there. As you move into 2003, the question becomes: Can the consumer hold on until we have corporate America pick up the torch and begin spending.

They didn't torch every single building, but they got the best ones, ... They intended to leave and never come back, and apparently they didn't want anyone else to replace them.

About 70 Chinese cities and 28 cities outside China will be covered along the route for the Beijing Games' torch relay.

It will be a fun show, as well as a good thing for our athletes to have people cheering them on from the stands. It usually includes fireworks, entertainment and the law enforcement torch run. We invite the public to come and just watch Friday and Saturday.

It's more like a relay race and the torch is now passed to Atlantis and the STS-121 crew, ... Now we have some data to work with, and for the first time in the shuttle era, we've got a very solid place to start.

The bar's been raised here at Hamilton and now we need some of the other kids to carry the torch forward.

I'm excited to see someone like Andrew still carrying the torch for it and making it something we can keep working with.

I'll carry the torch until it needs to be passed. Hopefully, God willing, I plan on finishing my career here, if it be this year or maybe next year.

I'm a sentimental guy by nature. But no tears this time, because I'm proud of this group of seniors. They had to carry the torch from our 61-0 teams, and they went through rough times. But they wanted to put a banner on the wall (for this season's NPC championship), and they did get one.

If you don't have the money, you have to be willing to do the work, ... Try to free yourself up to do the sales, because no one's going to carry the torch like the original founder.

In terms of the environment, the two organizing committees are taking forward a green torch first lit at Lillehammer, Norway in 1994,

I definitely think the torch has passed to me, but I think I will do all right.

I am prepared to pass the torch to new leadership,

You can't avoid the things that come along with being a basketball player. I want to carry the torch until somebody else comes along. I know there's a lot of kids who look up to me. And it's good when they're able to come out here because when I was growing up, I didn't have a chance to meet anybody famous from Mount Vernon. I just read about people from the community who were successful.

a hero who carried the torch of justice at a time when there was a paralysis of conscience over responsibility for the Holocaust.

The poet called Miss Liberty's torch 'the lamp beside the golden door.' Well, that was the entrance to America, and it still is. And now you really know why we're here tonight. The glistening hope of that lamp is still ours. Every promise, every opportunity, is still golden in this land. And through that golden door our children can walk into tomorrow with the knowledge that no one can be denied the promise that is America. Her heart is full; her torch is still golden, her future bright. She has arms big enough to comfort and strong enough to support, for the strength in her arms is the strength of her people. She will carry on in the '80s unafraid, unashamed, and unsurpassed. In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher- the clergyman