Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franklin Knight Lane

I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.

Neil Gaiman

Everything that is,casts a shadow

Henry Van Dyke

It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

John Clare

To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.

Meg Cabot

You didn't," John said, stepping from the shadows as he clapped for me, "even hit your head this time.

Khalil Gibran

You see but your shadow when you turn your back to the sun.

Ellen G. White

In regard to infallibility, I never claimed it; God alone is infallible. His word is true, and in Him is no variableness, or shadow of turning.

Peter Fonda

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

Phil Collins

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.

Rabindranath Tagore

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

Helmut Kohl

Simon Wiesenthal, like few others personally felt the shadow of history in its brutality.

James Russell Lowell

Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

Paulo Coelho

Terror, terror, terror. Life was a reign o terror in the shadow of the guillotine.

Max Lucado

One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.

John Flanagan

The sun was trembling on the brink of the world, the shadows at their longest, and they still had several kilometers to go.

Peter Ackroyd

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

Peter Lindbergh

I remember how difficult it was to perform certain operations on gelatine prints. A few weeks ago I asked my gelatine printer at Picto, "Can you make just the shadows a little bit brighter?" He gave me a very strange look because in Photoshop you just turn a button, and we're used to that now, but it is totally impossible in gelatine silver printing.

Plutarch

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

Phillips Brooks

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Some illusions...are the shadows of great truths.

Meher Baba

Nothing is the shadow of Everything.

Martin Amis

Perhaps there are other bits of my life that would take on content, take on shadow, if only I read more and thought less about money.

John Dewey

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

Juliet Marillier

I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.

Joy Fielding

October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows.

Lynda Barry

I am about as detailed as a shadow.

Loren Eiseley

I am what I am and cannot be otherwise because of the shadows.

John Locke

The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.

Sydney Schanberg

It's very easy to say that something is a shadow of itself, and it may be true in some senses.

Vanessa Hudgens

I have a toy poodle, Shadow. She's a little whippersnapper! And I love little monkeys.

Viggo Mortensen

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

Victor Hugo

To contemplate is to look at shadows.