Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
Moon is the light from a lantern in heaven - Munia Khan
A lantern can give you light only when you light it - Munia Khan
The part I gave you is the wick. It's what makes the lantern work. You are my wick, Farrow. I need you to soar. - Lisa Marie
If I were a pattern, I would be the pattern of paint that a bird would make if you dipped a bird’s wings in watercolour and then set the bird loose inside a paper lantern. I’m pretty sure that’s it! - C. JoyBell C.
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge