Shade Quotes

620 Shade quotes by 491 unique authors

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on… — Muhammad
And the Lord God prepared a plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head to deliver him… — Jonah
To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh, Add light to… — William Davenant
Love doesn't happen in an instant. It creeps up on you and then it turns your life upside-down. It colours your waking moments and fills… — Vikas Swarup
Although extraordinary valor was displayed by the entire corps of Spartans and Thespians, yet bravest of all was declared the Spartan Dienekes. It is said… — Herodotus
The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits… — Toby Hemenway
In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality very well. ...… — Lawrence Bossidy
Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will… — George Washington
Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear… — William Shakespeare
To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade. — John Milton
Look, little currant bush, I am the gardener here, and I know what I want you to be. I didn’t intend you to be a… — Hugh B. Brown
When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand… — Henri Bergson
You'll never make your mark as a writer unless you develop a respect for words and a curiosity about their shades of meaning that is… — William Zinsser
Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their aeriform state to… — Nick Tosches
The wounds were burning like suns at five in the afternoon, and the crowd broke the windows At five in the afternoon. Ah, that fatal… — Federico Garcia Lorca
Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth. — Joseph Addison
Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the… — Helen Hunt Jackson
I work in three shades of black. — Rei Kawakubo
Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones it will always stay blue; whereas yellow is blackened in its… — Raoul Dufy
Here is a tree rooted in African soil, nourished with waters from the rivers of Afrika. Come and sit under its shade and become, with… — Robert Sobukwe
Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done — Timothy Geithner
Photography concentrates one's eye on the superficial. For that reason it obscures the hidden life which glimmers through the outlines of things like a play… — Franz Kafka
No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph. — Bill Brandt
I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me, begging for attention,… — Rick Bragg
So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base… — Stephen King

Who Wrote These Shade Quotes

491 authors contributed a total of 620 Shade Quotes, led by these top contributors: