Human Torch Appears

Famous quotes containing the words human, torch and/or appears:

    “The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.”
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    “The despot’s heel is on thy shore,
    Maryland!
    His torch is at thy temple door,
    Maryland!
    Avenge the patriotic gore
    That flecked the streets of Baltimore,
    And be the battle-queen of yore,
    Maryland! my Maryland!”
    —James Ryder Randall (1839–1908)

    “... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)