Quotes on Shadow

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.

Author: Aeschylus

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Author: Aesop

Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

Author: Aesop

Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow.

Author: Thomas Campion

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

Author: Adelbert Chamisso

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

Author: Peter Fonda

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

Author: E. Forster

Without black, no color has any depth. But if you mix black with everything, suddenly there's shadow - no, not just shadow, but fullness. You've got to be willing to mix black into your palette if you want to create something that's real.

Author: Amy Grant

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.

Author: Whitney Houston

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

Author: Helen Keller

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

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

Author: Franklin Lane

Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?

Author: Maurice Maeterlinck

There is a shadow on every page.

Author: Eugene Ormandy

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.

Author: Marcus Pollio

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

Author: Walter Scott

You're like the girl who left her shadow in the drawer, but when she went to get it, it wasn't there.

Author: Wayne Shorter

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

Author: Sam Snead

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

Author: Sam Snead

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

Author: Robert Stevenson

The black shadow cares for itself, not for you.

Author: Julius Streicher