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Definition of Torch

Torch

A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame.

A flashlight.

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Torch Quotations

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 F. Kennedy

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.
Ambrose Bierce

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.
Marquis de Sade

But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.
Harvey Fierstein

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.
Harvey Fierstein

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
Samuel Johnson

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

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.
Lucretius

A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch.
Michael Ondaatje

I feel like it's my job to carry the torch.
Joan Jett

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
Adam Weishaupt

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
James Cash Penney

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.
Adolf Hitler

My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
Yakov Smirnoff

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.
Pierre de Coubertin

You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.
Karel Capek

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

Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.
Jane D. Hull

I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.
Robert B. Laughlin

Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
Adolf Hitler

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch.
Shawn Wayans

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

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.
Angela Ruggiero

We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and years and show no movement or desire to pass the torch.
John Mahoney

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age.
Kelly Millar

Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines.
William Hamilton

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
Claude Adrien Helvetius

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
Jose Marti

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Torch Translations

torch in Danish is fakkel
torch in Dutch is toorts, fakkel, flambouw
torch in French is flameau, torche
torch in German is Fackel, Taschenlampe, Fackel
torch in Portuguese is tocha
torch in Spanish is antorcha
torch in Swedish is ficklampa, fackla, bloss

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