Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike McGavick

You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower.

John Milton

Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.

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.

Khalil Gibran

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

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.

Haruki Murakami

My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings.

Haruki Murakami

The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own 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 Locke

The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.

Franklin Knight Lane

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

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.

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 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.

John Dewey

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

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.

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.

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.

Peter Ackroyd

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

Tomas Transtromer

A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than his shadow.

Steven Johnson

The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I'm not living in the shadows anymore. I want to walk in the sun. But I can't do that without you.

Tennessee Williams

We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Junichiro Tanizaki

Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.

Sylvia Plath

I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.

Swami Vivekananda

May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love.