Candle Lighting Quotes

I'm a minimalist Jew, but on Friday night, I celebrate Shabbat. At sundown, we light candles, say the blessing, and I don't turn on my computer for 24 hours.

My grandmother lived on Elizabeth Street in Little Italy, and she used to go to church every day. She'd go in, light a candle, she'd pray, and as a child, that was comforting to me.

I'm a big candle guy.

I am so grateful for after-school snack time, when I light a candle, pour some tea, slice some apples, and get to listen in on my kids' highs and lows of the day.

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

In a bar mitzvah, you do the candle-lighting ceremony with the cake. Every birthday, the cake is the big moment.

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.

This church was open and seemingly unattended, and it was a throwback in another way as well. The candles in the little side altars were real ones, actual wax candles that burned with an open flame. Lots of churches have switched over to electrified altars. You drop your quarter in the slot and a flame-shaped bulb goes on and stays on for your quarter's worth of time. It's like a parking meter, and if you stay too long they tow away your soul.

Even as a little kid I knew that spinning a dreidel on the floor for literal pennies was a sad consolation for the joys of trimming a Christmas tree.

I love prayer candles, and I use them often.

Shabbat dinner is something that we do once a month.

I have way too many candles. There's always a candle burning at home.

The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.

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

I did candles because I wanted a candle to put in my home. I couldn't find one I liked.

If I could just walk around and light the candles with my finger, that would be kind of cool.

My Shabbat dinner is not to be reckoned with.

I'll put candles all over the room, then light then, and get to it. I call it my 'vibe in a bag.'