Shade Quotes

620 Shade quotes by 491 unique authors

Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf: "That’s the cycle… — Paulo Coelho
When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color. — Khaled Hosseini
I found a sad little fairy Beneath the shade of a paper tree. I know a sad little fairy Who was blown away by the… — Khaled Hosseini
since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light — Charles Bukowski
It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky, deep green fields,… — Bill Bryson
For me, it feels like driving from truth into a lie, from adulthood to childhoold. I watch the land of pavement and glass and metal… — Veronica Roth
So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in… — Robert Herrick
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy. — William Wordsworth
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it… — Lord Chesterfield
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. — Unknown Author
It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet. — D. Elton Trueblood
But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye… — Thomas Jefferson
If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. — Lord Chesterfield
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds - November! — Thomas Hood
Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed… — Alexander Herzen
The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then it sacrifices itself and blows… — Antoine Predock
The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them… — Laura Mennell
When I was a kid growing up, we had a cherry tree in the backyard, 100 years old. I climbed it, and it gave shade… — Andrew Wyatt
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication,… — Robin Marantz Henig
I was born in the summer of 1970, the last of five boys stretched over eight years. My parents were a struggling young couple who… — Charles M. Blow
As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made. — Richard Barnfield
They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I… — Keith Emerson
Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a… — Leonard Boswell
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater… — Thomas Jefferson
Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees. — Stonewall Jackson

Who Wrote These Shade Quotes

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