Burning Bright Quotes

• Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

  William Blake

  Motivational, Eye, Night

  Songs of Experience "The Tiger" (1794)

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• What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, Wind, Ideas

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• A mother's love is like a beacon, Burning bright with Faith and Prayer, And through the changing scenes of life, We can find a haven there.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Family, Mother, Prayer

  Helen Steiner Rice (2003). “Especially for Mothers”, Barbour Publishing

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• Oh, he was the sun burning bright and brittle And she was the moon shining back his light a little He was a shooting star She was softer and more slowly He could not make things possible But, she could make them holy.

  Harry Chapin

  Stars, Moon, Light

  Song: Shooting Star, 1974

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• Our first duty to liberty is to keep our own. But it is also our duty - as Europeans - to keep alive in the Eastern as well as the Western half of our continent those ideas of human dignity which Europe gave to the world. Let us therefore resolve to keep the lamps of freedom burning bright so that all who look to the West from the shadows of the East need not doubt that we remain true to those human and spiritual values that lie at the heart of European civilization.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Spiritual, Lying, Heart

  Margaret Thatcher (1987). “In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986”

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• The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright.

  Fritz Leiber

  Fall, Government, Suffering

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.286, Open Road Media

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• There is no country... where there are not somewhere lovers of freedom who look to this country to carry the torch and keep it burning bright until such time as they may again be able to light their extinguished torches at our flame. We owe it not only to our own people but to the world to preserve our soul for that.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Country, Light, Flames

  Stanley Baldwin's speech at University of Durham to the Ashridge Fellowship, as quoted in The Times (December 3, 1934) and in "Christian Conservatives and the Totalitarian Challenge, 1933-40" by Philip Williamson in "The English Historical Review", Volume 115, No. 462 (pp. 607-642), June 2000.

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• As in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow,Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow;And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near,A pretty babe all burning bright did in the air appear.

  Robert Southwell

  Heart, Eye, Winter

  "The Burning Babe" l. 1 (ca. 1590)

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• We're weird roman candles burning bright at both ends. At the end of the road's where this story begins. Where the green of the gulf meets the blue of the sea. What makes it all happen is still a mystery to me. But those crazy days and those crazy ways, we never want to undo. We'll be together, now and forever.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Friendship, Crazy, Blue

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• A most burning question of time, though. It burns in every nook and cranny of the ethnological world, burning, bright, brightly, in the fullest blaze, and it burns all around, huge fire! and no one lifts a hand.

  Adolf Bastian

  Fire, Hands, Burning

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• May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright, Of soft and golden hue, Pierce through the future's veil and show, What fate now holds for you?

  Jerry Smith

  Halloween, Fate, Burning

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• One of the things that will keep The Front Page burning bright as long as newspapers are alive is the myth that newspapermen are breezy and raffish. What other play has for so long fed the self-image of journalists?

  Jay Carr

  Self, Play, Long

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