Shadows Quotes
941 quotes by 659 authors
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I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the…
— Giovanni Giocondo
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The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.
— Confucius
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Alas! how little can a moment show Of an eye where feeling plays In ten thousand dewy rays: A face o'er which a thousand shadows…
— William Wordsworth
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Sometimes, I think the things we see are shadows of the things to be; that what we plan we build
— Phoebe Cary
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What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you…
— Boyd K. Packer
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive…
— Alan Lightman
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My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio,…
— Satyajit Ray
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A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.
— Vivian Stanshall
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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
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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
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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
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No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away.
— Unknown Author
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow…
— Arthur Eddington
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A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands…
— John Milton
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Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before you as a…
— Virginia Woolf
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Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
— O. Henry
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