Quotes of Shadow - somelinesforyou

“ America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. ”

- Arnold J. Toynbee

“ There is no darkness, but ignorance. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know. ”

- Larry Bird

“ I'm their leader, I've got to follow them. ”

- Alexandre Auguste Ledru Rollin

“ Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. ”

- Edward Young

“ How many legs does a dog have if you count his tail as a leg? Four. You can call a tail a leg if you want to, but that doesn't make it a leg. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. ”

- Max Eastman

“ If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain. ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

“ Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to the highest lights. ”

- John Ruskin

“ Let's do the nuances. ”

- Garrison Keillor

“ My feet are dogs. ”

- Rudolf Nureyev

“ The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind: There all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ He's not going to go out quietly. He's going to rage against the darkness. ”

- Martin Sheen

“ A penumbra of somber dignity has descended over his reputation. ”

- James Atlas

“ Watch the stars, and from them learn. To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on. ”

- Pearl S. Buck

“ The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ The Church says the Earth is flat. But I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the Moon. And I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church. ”

- Magellan

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

- Abraham Lincoln

“ To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light. ”

- H.K. Barclay

“ The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church. ”

- Ferdinand Magellan

“ When walking through the valley of shadows, remember, a shadow is cast by a Light. ”

- Austin O’Malley

“ Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. ”

- William Blake

“ Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows. ”

- John Updike

“ What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. ”

- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“ Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. ”

- Helen Keller

“ We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. ”

- Buddha

“ My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen — no retouching, no shadows, no flattery — just stark me. ”

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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