Shadow Quotes

There stands the shadow of a glorious name.

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.

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

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.

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.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

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.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.