Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Lewis

By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation,

Ato Boldon

I feel like the torch has been passed to me. The question is what am I going to do with it.

Angela Ruggiero

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.

George Bernard Shaw

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

Plato

Those having torches will pass them on to others.

Leonard Cohen

Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this

Mel Brooks

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

Rosanne Cash

I was a songwriter; that was the torch I carried. This is an honorable profession. This is what I do.

Winston Churchill

It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.

Mike Nichols

I think that to make something alive, instead of on a page, is an honorable task. And it turns me on.

Philippe Petit

My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester.

Harmon Killebrew

I want to say that maybe I've made some wrong decisions, but I'm still an honorable person, and I intend to take care of all of my obligations.

Action Bronson

I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.

William Shakespeare

Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion.

Bill Sienkiewicz

Cartooning is an honorable thing

Richard Price

I never did any TV before. But this was the most honorable and worthwhile show I could be involved with.

Orrin Hatch

It's a thoughtful, decent, honorable decision. He's come down on the side of facilitating life.

Ron Dellums

There is nothing wrong with being an honorable lobbyist.

Dirk Bogarde

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

Gina Bellman

My mother always said I should have a back-up profession if the acting doesn't work out.

Campbell Scott

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

Edith Stein

There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Alexander Pope

Every professional was once an amateur.

Georges Simenon

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness

P. T. Barnum

I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.

Mason Cooley

I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.

George Papandreou

I never thought of politics as a profession.