Light And Hanukkah Quotes & Sayings

I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells. — King Tuff

On Hanukkah, the first dark night,
Light yourself a candle bright.
I'll you, if you will me invite
To dance within that gentle light. — Nick Gordon

The thing about science is that it proves a lot of it's findings wrong as time continues to pass. — Matthew Donnelly

Politics makes strange bedfellows. — Charles Dudley Warner

Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics. — Liev Schreiber

That's what Hanukkah is about: trying to survive the darkness on the far-fetched hope there's still some life and light left in the universe. It's more than just a religious story. The days have been growing shorter, imperceptibly but inescapably darker ... Heading into the night of the winter solstice, every spiritual tradition has some kind of festival of light. We're all just whistling in the dark, hoping against hope that someone up there will see these little Hanukkah candles and get the hint. — Lawrence Kushner

True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others. — Joy Harjo

This was no choice. He hadn't chosen this. This ... . Todd grinned. This had chosen him! — Anonymous

All truths wait in all things, — Walt Whitman

Keep working on you. Remind yourself that it's your emotions and experiences and expectations that are causing your outbursts, not your little one's behavior. — L.R. Knost

It has often been hard for me to know if people are serious when they talk about making T-shirts. Just to be clear: Nobody ever means it, ever. Making and wearing matching, themed T-shirts is embarrassing. Unless you want to make some with me right now, or something. — Katie Heaney

To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Triumph
Consider Icarus, pasting those sticky wintgs on,
testing that strange little tug at his shoulder blade,
and think of that first flawless moment over the lawn
of the labyrinth. Think of the difference it made!
There below are the trees, as awkward as camels;
and here are the shocked starlings pumping past
and think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well:
larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast
of the plushy ocean, he goes. Admire his wings!
Feel the fire at his neck and see how casually
he glances up and is caught, wondrously tunneling
into that hot eye. Who cares that feel back to the sea?
See him acclaiming the sun and come plunging down
while his sensible daddy goes straight into town. — Anne Sexton

People shouldn't analyze their passions. They should just live. — Marty Rubin

The best time to start was last year. Failing that, today will do. — Chris Guillebeau

The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Hanukkah is ... the festival of lights, instead of one day of presents, we get eight crazy nights — Adam Sandler

The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle. — Irving Greenberg

Taking our inspiration from an article on the proper way to walk in a city that appeared recently in the celebrated Parisian magazine Matin, we too should make our feelings clear to people who have yet to learn how to conduct themselves on the streets of Istanbul and tell them, "Don't walk down the street with your mouth open" [1924]. It — Orhan Pamuk

Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word. — Emma Lazarus

If we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us. — Neil Gaiman

Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste. — George Perkins Marsh