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"...in song the words tend to lose their significance, do often lose it, while at the other extreme, in current prose it is the musical value that tends to disappear - so that verse stands symmetrically, as it were, between song, on the one hand, and prose on the other - and is thus admirably and delicately balanced between the sensual and the intellectual power of language." »Paul Valery
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"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own." »Ben Sweetland
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"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world." »Louis Pasteur
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"I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations." »George Bernard Shaw
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"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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards." »Bhartrihari
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"We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle." »Erma Bombeck
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"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
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"Silence is more musical than any song." »Christina G. Rossetti
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"Those who wish to sing always find a song." »Swedish Proverb
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"In summer, the song sings itself." »William Carlos Williams
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"Whose bread I eat his song I sing." »German proverb
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"In the depth of my soul there is a wordless song." »Kahlil Gibran
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"What will a child learn sooner than a song?" »Alexander Pope
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"I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!" »Jerry Van Amerongen, Ballard Street, 08-18-05
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"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song." »Chinese Proverb
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"I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of ME." »Shirley MacLaine
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes." »Unknown
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"When asked about his favorite song, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"As a song-writer, I write from the heart, soul and mind, not from lies." »Alishia May
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"I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth." »Tom Waits, Blood Money interviews
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"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, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"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, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today, at home and around the world!" »John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, 1961
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"One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"My life has been one great big joke A dance that's walked A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself." »Maya Angelou
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"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." »Johann von Goethe
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