Beacons Quotes

• And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strong, Home, Patriotic

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

  Virginia Woolf

  Poetry, Poet, Beacons Of Light

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.590, Wordsworth Editions

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• He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Thinking, Matter, Thanks

  Jeremy Bentham (1844). “Benthamiana: Or Select Extracts from the Works of Jeremy Bentham. With an Outline of His Opinions on the Principal Subjects Discussed in His Works”, p.217

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• A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

  Honore de Balzac

  Family, Happiness, Mothers Day

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “Letters of Two Brides”, p.185, The Floating Press

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• I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

  Leslie Banks

  Writing, Imagination, Genre

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• Of all the fire mountains which like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast, Mount Rainier is the noblest.

  John Muir

  Fire, Mountain, Coast

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.739, Library of America

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• Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Mother, Father, Married

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 1999.

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• Iraq can emerge as a beacon of hope and democracy in the Middle East, and the world, with our help.

  Chris Chocola

  Easter, Iraq, Democracy

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• Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

  Ada Cambridge

  Anchors, Compass

  Ada Cambridge (2015). “The Manor House: The Hand in the Dark and Other Poems”, p.192, Library of Alexandria

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• Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.

  Mike Ferguson

  Pilots, Morse Code, Know How

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• For every $5 that Boston's economy sends up to Beacon Hill, the state gives only $1 back to us.

  Thomas Menino

  Boston, Giving, Hills

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• For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country.

  Spencer Bachus

  Country, Opportunity, Land

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• Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

  Thomas Huxley

  Wise, Wisdom, Science

  'Science and Culture and Other Essays' (1881) 'On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata'

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• Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

  Nick Lampson

  Democracy, Taiwan, World

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• One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.

  James A. Baldwin

  Darkness, Return, Responsible

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James A. Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• Is it me? Is it like I have a beacon that only dogs and men with severe emotional problems can hear?

  Lisa Kudrow

  Funny, Dog, Men

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• Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples.

  Aga Khan IV

  Commitment, Years, Pluralism Is

  Press Release: Aga Khan Welcomes Government of Canada's Partnership in New Global Centre for Pluralism, Ottawa, Canada, April 18, 2005.

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• Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.

  Samuel Beckett

  Sea, Mind, Unfathomable

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.111, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.

  Daniel Burnham

  Order

  Commercial Club of Chicago, Daniel Hudson Burnham, Edward Herbert Bennett (1970). “Plan of Chicago”, Da Capo Pr

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• Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Doubt, Modest

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1931, Oxford University Press

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• ...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.

  Margaret Atwood

  People, Can Do, Ifs

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.250, Anchor

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• Because I'm on the phone, Mom!" "Fooling around with your friends again! Who is that?" "Ahmadinejad." "Oh, my goodness! What is he saying?" "That he wants to see Jeezy at the Beacon tonight. Putin's going too. He scalped a ticket from Kim Jong Il. All tha gangstas are going." "Don't be so fresh, young man!" "Gotta go," he says to me. "Enemy forces have dropped a Momshell." "Fall back, solider. Over and out.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Mom, Fall, Men

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• This is the first nation that organized government on the basis of universal liberty with a free Church and a free State. This meant much at the time; it means much now and will continue to be the beacon of light and guidance for ourselves and of other nations. All that is good and practical and wise in the new developments can best be worked out under our form of government without destroying any of the basic principles upon which it rests.

  Oscar Straus

  Wise, Mean, Light

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• Together, America and the United Kingdom are a beacon for prosperity and the rule of law. That is why the United States respects the sovereignty of the British people and their right of self-determination.

  Donald Trump

  Determination, Self, Law

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.

  Max Planck

  Success, Failure, Science

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