Shadow Quotes

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And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gigantic cypresses, submerged; a land… — George Washington Cable
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. — Ralph Ellison
I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow. — Sophocles
You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there. — Wayne Shorter
American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows. — John Philip Sousa
We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and… — Kenneth H. Cooper
How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how… — Tavis Smiley
By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers. — William Shakespeare
Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between the shadows of… — Hermann Hesse
No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away. — Unknown Author
You're the twinkling light in my eye. You're my shadow always protecting me. You've always got my back, and I love you for that — Briana Evigan
Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont… — Helen Keller
We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel to rescue us… — Frederick William Robertson
And so she comes to dream herself the tree, The wind possessing her, weaving her young veins, Holding her to the sky and its quick… — Hart Crane
I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun With my eye;… — Wallace Stevens
The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path, since a third… — Annie Dillard
Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews and shadows and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is a place on earth that is a vast desolate wilderness, a place populated by shadows of the dead in their multitudes, a place… — Unknown Author
Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow. — Thomas Campion
When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a… — Robert M. Pirsig

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