“Keep those lights burning, cover them with steel, build them in with guns, build a canopy of battleships and bombing planes around them and, hello, America, hang on to your lights, they're the only lights in the world.”

“Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.”

Banana Yoshimoto book Kitchen

“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

“Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.”

Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter

“Everyone has light around them, except for you. You have shadows.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

“Little light shining,
Little light will guide them to me.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

“Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“My god, Sage. Your eyes. How have I never noticed them? When you stand in the light. They're amazing… like molten gold. I could paint those… They're beautiful. You're beautiful.”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

“Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.”

Thomas Fuller (1608–1661) English churchman and historian