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«Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.»
Author: Alan Dean Foster (Author, Writer) | About: Freedom | Keywords: lighting
«Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame»
Author: Jane Porter | About: Knowledge | Keywords: candles, imparting, lighting
«A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.»
«How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.»
«Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.»
«Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.»
«I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles. 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. Black women don't quibble about things that are not important.»
«And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him: / And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: baptize, baptized, dove, lighting
«And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.»
«A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: candle, lighting, loses