Quotes of Lighting - somelinesforyou

“ The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes — or it prospers; and anon; Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty face Lighting a little Hour or two — is gone. ”

- Omar Khayyam

“ Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political. ”

- Gene Wilder

“ You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within. ”

- Bob Nelson

“ A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. ”

- Father James Keller

“ Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. ”

- Gloria Leonard

“ Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. ”

- Alan Dean Foster

“ One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. ”

- John W. Foster

“ Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle. ”

- James Keller

“ Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. ”

- William Butler Yeats

“ I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ”

- W. B. Yeats

“ They say things like they don't want men opening doors for them anymore, and they don't want men lighting their cigarettes for them anymore. Big deal. Black women have been opening doors for themselves and lighting their own cigarettes for a couple centuries in this country… ”

- Wilma Rudolph

“ Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of "quaint," and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive. ”

- Northrop Frye
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