Definition of Torch

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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. Related Definitions: As, Candle, Combustible, Flambeau, Flame, Flaring, Formed, Giving, Lamp, Large, Luminary, Light, Of, Or, Resinous, Some, Substance, Wood

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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