Beacons Of Light Quotes

• Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark.

  Julie Andrews

  Graduation, Heart, Dark

  "Julie Andrews To CU-Boulder Grads: ‘Be An Ambassador For The Kind Of World That You Want To Live In’". The Boulder Daily Camera with Brittany Anas, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

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• I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark when they see and hear them. I want them to shine like beacons of light in a world of overly complicated darkness. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Dark, Simple

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• One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Wisdom, Writing

  "Some of the Dharma". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1997.

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Poetry, Poet, Beacons

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

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• Israel, the Jewish state, the only democracy in the Middle East, continues to shine as a beacon of light in the darkest region of the world.

  Brigitte Gabriel

  Light, Israel, Shining

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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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• It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this." I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. "Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Running, Spring, School

  Arthur Conan Doyle, General Press (2016). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels”, p.340, GENERAL PRESS

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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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• 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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• In speaking powerfully and eloquently for mercy and reconciliation to people divided by old hatreds and persecuted by abuse of power, the Holy Father was a beacon of light not just for Catholics, but for all people.

  William J. Clinton

  Father, Light, People

  "U.S. leaders pay tribute to pope", www.cnn.com. April 2, 2005.

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• [Book's subtitle:] Designed as a beacon of light to guide women to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may be read by members of the sterner sect, without injury to themselves or the book.

  Marietta Holley

  Book, Pursuit Of Happiness, Light

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