In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow. (Quote by - Gwen John)

Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men? (Quote by - Ben Jonson)

It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them. (Quote by - H. P. Blavatsky)

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene. (Quote by - Grandma Moses)

You can only come to the morning through the shadows (Quote by - J.R.R. Tolkien)

Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality. (Quote by - Hermann Minkowski)

It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows. (Quote by - Conrad Hall)

If coming events are said to cast their shadows before, past events cannot fall to leave their impress behind them. (Quote by - H. P. Blavatsky)

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece. (Quote by - Ernie Pyle)

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)

I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours. (Quote by - Thayer David)

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings. (Quote by - George MacDonald)

Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshin (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with. (Quote by - Ginny B. Waite)

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)

Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes. (Quote by - Jean Racine)

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me. (Quote by - Lorna Luft)

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)

To rid ourselves of our shadows - who we are - we must step into either total light or total darkness (Quote by - Jeremy Preston)

Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human rights, by definition, include the rights of all humans, those in the dawn of life, the dusk of life, or the shadows of life. (Quote by - Kay Granger)

Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun. (Quote by - Evita Peron)

Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides. (Quote by - Junichiro Tanizaki)

American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows. (Quote by - John Philip Sousa)

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend. (Quote by - William Cowper)