Shadow Quotes

There is a shadow on every page.

A free and stable Iraq will be a shining light against the shadow of Islamic extremism.

Well actually, some weeks they'll write that I'm jealous of living in her shadow. Then other weeks, they'll write that all I want to do is loaf around on her money! It's ridiculous!

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.

Shadows sometimes people don't see shadows. The Chinese of course never paint them in pictures, oriental art never deals with shadow. But I noticed these shadows and I knew it meant it was sunny.

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.

The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

A human being is only breath and shadow.

The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

I joined Genesis when I was 19. I've earned the right to actually do nothing. I don't want to be a shadow of what I was, so I've kind of just quite willingly stood back.

Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.

Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

I'm not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.