Torches Quotes - Page 12

• I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.

  Dawna Markova

  Heart, Wings, Promise

  Dawna Markova (2000). “I Will Not Die An Unlived Life: Reclaiming Passion and Purpose”, Conari Press

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• Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and darker stairs, where blue is darkened on blueness even where Persephone goes, just now, from the frosted September to the sightless realm where darkness is awake upon the dark.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Flower, Dark, Blue

  David Herbert Lawrence, “Bavarian Gentians”

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• Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.

  Peter Stuyvesant

  Peace, War, Blessed

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• From early on I valued the gift of memory above all others. I understood that as we grow older we carry a whole nation around inside of us, places and ways that have disappeared, believing that they are ours, that we alone hold the torch for our past, that we are as impenetrable as stone.

  Jane Hamilton

  Memories, Believe, Past

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• The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Mean, Play, Soul

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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