Top 100 In The Shadow Quotes
#1. Oh, but I am quite resigned to taking second place in the shadow of my husband. I am humbly aware that the wife of a great man has to be contented with reflected glory - don't you think so Miss Taggart?"
"No," said Dagny, "I don't.
Ayn Rand
#2. One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple, by the Relief Office, I saw my people -As they stood hungry, I stood there wondering if God blessed America for me.
Woody Guthrie
#3. I am a hopeful romantic. - Charlotte, In the Shadow of Angels
Fanny Lee Savage
#4. With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affliction, The soul sits dumb!
John Greenleaf Whittier
#5. Around here, though, people don't treat me any differently. That's to be expected. I don't mind at all, being in the shadow of three Hall of Famers. I just want to learn all I can from them.
Reggie Lewis
#6. As you get older, the child within you begins to suffocate in the shadow of the man you are destined to become.
Charles Lee
#7. From in the shadow she calls. And in the shadow she finds a way, finds a way. And in the shadow she crawls, clutching her faded photograph. My image under her thumb. Yes with a message for my heart. She's been everybody else's girl maybe one day she'll be her own.
Tori Amos
#8. It does not do to let the senses fall asleep, whether in the shade of the sacred tree or in the shadow of an army.
Victor Hugo
#9. Something lay in the shadow at the foot of the ridge, as stiff as the stick of the fallen rocket; and the man who knew too much knew what is worth knowing.
G.K. Chesterton
#10. Through the heartfelt mercies of our God,
God's Sunrise will break in upon us,
Shining on those in the darkness,
those sitting in the shadow of death,
Then showing us the way, one foot at a time,
down the path of peace.
Anonymous
#11. I've spent the first part of my life in the shadow of my family. I'm not going to live in the shadow of my husband.
Martha Wainwright
#12. There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.
Virginia Woolf
#13. One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
Elizabeth Bowen
#14. To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order.
Herman Melville
#15. I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.
Junot Diaz
#16. I was resting in the shadow of that ideal happiness as in the shade of the poisonous manchineel tree, without foreseeing the consequences.
Gustave Flaubert
#17. I have seen the shadow of the Earth on the moon, and I have more faith in the shadow than in the church
Ferdinand Magellan
#18. We lived in the shadow of our rich relations. Mother was intent on keeping up with the people she was raised with, which was impossible. My father was a physician who wanted to be a rabbi but was weighed down by a great sense of obligation to support his family in style.
Stewart Stern
#19. All that crap about love and fairness and doing something with your life, Bruno ... Those are luxury problems. The CEO's wife can go around worrying about that stuff. People like us from the projects have to play by a different set of rules."
George Hanson
In The Shadow of Sadd
Steen Langstrup
#20. 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!
Tennessee Williams
#21. What we do in the crisis always depends on whether we see the difficulties in the light of God, or God in the shadow of the difficulties.
G. Campbell Morgan
#22. Ah, there should be a young man, ein schone Junge carrying Blumen, a bouquet of roses. There should be cold Rhine wine and Strausswaltzes, and on the long way home kisses in the shadow of an archway, like a Cinderella.
Laurence Stallings
#23. Words like 'unputdownable' and 'irresistible' are simply not enough for Cat Winters's In the Shadow of Blackbirds. Days after finishing this story, it remains the first thought I have in the morning, and the thing that haunts me until I sleep.
Lauren DeStefano
#24. Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones ... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.
Cennino Cennini
#25. Is there climate change? I live in the shadow of some of the greatest climate change the world has ever seen. It's called the Rocky Mountains. When the glaciers went back.
Scott Tipton
#26. According to 'Star Trek' mythos, Starfleet Command - operational headquarters for a flotilla of craft that keep the cosmic peace - is located in San Francisco's Presidio, in the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge (still carrying traffic, even in the 23rd century).
Seth Shostak
#27. We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.
Ansel Adams
#28. Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene.
N.D. Wilson
#29. If you betray me, Leta ... Kill me. Be kind and don't let me live in the shadow of your cruelty. I can't take another blow like that. I'm not that strong. (Aiden)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#30. Here we live in the shadow of the steeple, where the holy rubber meets the road, all crookedly blessed in God's mercy, in the heart-stopping, pants-dropping, race-riot-creating, oddball-hating, soul-shaking, love-and-fear-making, heartbreaking town of Freehold, New Jersey. Let the service begin.
Bruce Springsteen
#31. In the shadow of death may we not look back to the past, but seek in utter darkness the dawn of God.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#32. Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'
Brian K. Vaughan
#33. Life was best when standing in the shadow of death.
Alter S. Reiss
#34. Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood
N. Scott Momaday
#36. The bombs held in current nuclear arsenals are seventy times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. If we don't begin opposing the drift towards more and more of them, we will live in the shadow of the mushroom cloud for the rest of our lives - and millions may die there.
Johann Hari
#37. One of the things about living in the shadow of a suicide is that everyone involved is going to have some guilt, is going to wonder, 'What could I have done? What could I have said?'
Philip Connors
#38. In the shadow of death he produces life, and though the senses are terrified, faith taking all for the best, is full of courage and assurance.
Jean-Pierre De Caussade
#39. I have written a number of short biographical studies of insignificant personages from literary history. My interest has always been in writing biographies of the also-rans: people who lived in the shadow of fame in their own lifetime and who, since their death, have sunk into profound obscurity.
Diane Setterfield
#40. You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower.
Mike McGavick
#41. Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb.
Chuck Palahniuk
#42. I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.
Patrick Swayze
#43. Her was interested in the shadow herself - how her mind worked, what motivated her, her essence, how she came to be. It was a fascinating phenomenon.
Erin Kellison
#44. To live in the shadow of another person ... to desire to be adored as that person is ... is the weakest ambition of all. Find yourself. Be loved as yourself.
Faye Hall
#45. He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#46. When it looks at great accomplishments, the world, bent on simplifying its images, likes best to look at the dramatic, picturesquemoments experienced by its heroes ... But the no less creative years of preparation remain in the shadow.
Stefan Zweig
#47. Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.
Jordan Flaherty
#48. It's amazing when you come to think of it how the human spirit seems to blossom in the shadow of the abattoir!
Malcolm Lowry
#49. In the heartfelt mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will visit us, to shine on those sitting in darkness, in the shadow of death, to guide our feet to the way of peace.
Anonymous
#50. You have to fight for what you want in life. You can't live your life in the shadow of your brothers or sisters or parents; you have to live your life, and make it a good life, because you only have one.
Gaby Rodriguez
#51. Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.
Thomas Browne
#52. It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#53. I want to live our own lives, make our own decision and not live in the shadow of a former life"...... We owe ourself that much.
Danielle Fuller
#54. No man can walk so long in the Shadow that he cannot come again to the Light.
Robert Jordan
#55. eyes, the color of a forest blanketed in the shadow of a violent storm. They
M.S. Willis
#57. My entire generation has grown up in the shadow of one movie: 'Star Wars.'
Harry Knowles
#58. We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities of lakes, rivers and bays where all forms of life have been smothered by untreated wastes, and oceans which no longer provide us with food.
Edmund Muskie
#59. Psalm 57:1
Have mercy on me, my God, have mercy on me, for in you I take refuge. I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings until the disaster has passed.
Ronie Kendig
#60. Greed, apathy, hubris - even loyalty - all demand payment in the end. Storms will always come, and men will always do evil in the shadow of some other word.
Greg Iles
#61. Action separates the heroes from the cowards, the achievers from the complainers, the successful from the mere dreamers, the happy from the envious; it separates those who rise to the challenge of their goals from the haters who cower in the shadow of stagnancy.
Steve Maraboli
#62. The thought of people reading in the sun, on a beach, tempts me to recommend dark books, written in the shadow of loneliness, despair, and death. Let these revelers feel a chill as they loll on their towels.
Anatole Broyard
#63. 7For Thou hast been my help, And in the shadow of Thy wings I sing for joy.
Anonymous
#64. Rahul is always been in the shadow of Sachin. If you take his record it's as good as Sachin's but you cannot compare both as they are different kind of players. Rahul is a complete cricketer.
Muttiah Muralitharan
#65. The American administration is trying to achieve any gain in the shadow of the embarrassment hitting it because of its failures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine after the failure of Israel's war on Lebanon and the retreat of America's project in the region.
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
#66. For those of us who live in the shadow of this noisy monster, there aren't too many of us who are sorry to see it go.
Anthony Weiner
#67. As far as I'm aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there's a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.
William Hague
#68. Listen to me, all you in distant lands! Pay attention, you who are far away! The LORD called me before my birth; from within the womb he called me by name. 2 He made my words of judgment as sharp as a sword. He has hidden me in the shadow of his hand. I am like a sharp arrow in his quiver.
Anonymous
#69. The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.
Zachary Quinto
#70. How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?
Tavis Smiley
#71. This is the superhumanity of the immigrant, but woe be to the all-too-human offspring living in the shadow of such strength.
Gary Shteyngart
#72. Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.
Jules Renard
#73. Love of the absolute engenders a predilection for self-destruction. Hence the passion for monasteries and brothels. Cells and women, in both cases. Weariness with life fares well in the shadow of whores and saintly women.
Emil Cioran
#74. You didn't grow up in the shadow of John Steinbeck. He put you on his shoulders and gave you all the light you wanted.
Thomas Steinbeck
#75. There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.
Giorgio De Chirico
#76. Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you can open up to the arrival of a new archetype, the birth of a new cycle of life. In the shadow, then, lies our myth and our fate.
Connie Zweig
#77. Like regret in the shadow of trees and in the glow of an anarchist's suit collection
Markus Zusak
#78. So this is how they lived. For some time Theo, like a tree living in the shadow of taller trees, found a way to live off reflected light.
Dave Eggers
#79. They were in that bed together for a long time, taking the sweetness of life in the shadow of death.
Alter S. Reiss
#80. We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.
Matt Blunt
#81. I was born in the shadow of World War II, on December 18, 1939, on the South Shore of Long Island, a product of the early -wentieth-century emigration of Eastern European Jewry to New York City and its environs.
Harold E. Varmus
#82. In the shadow of feigned cripples and false wounds come the strong arms of thieves and very healthy drunkards.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#83. To stand in the shadow
of the scar up in the air.
To stand-for-no-one-and-nothing.
Unrecognized,
for you alone.
With all there is room for in that,
even without
language.
Paul Celan
#84. The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger.
George W. Bush
#86. We live in the shadow of crime with the unspoken understanding that we are victims.. of fear, of violence, of social impotence. A man has risen to show us that the power is, ans always has been, in our hands. We are under siege. He's showing us that we can resist.
Frank Miller
#87. It occurred to him to say the viddui, the prayer before death. He struggled to remember it. Blessed are You, who has bestowed me with many blessings. May my death atone for all I have done ... and may I shelter in the shadow of Your wings in the World to Come.
Helene Wecker
#88. Feeling like I am now lighting up the hall. I was used to standing in the shadow of a damaged heart.
Sara Quin
#89. In the shadow my father has cast over my entire life, you are the only light I can see anymore. And, whatever the cost, I refuse to let that light be extinguished
Morgan Rhodes
#90. Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression.
Amit Ray
#91. As the light of morning strikes now one peak and then another, some being illuminated while others are in the shadow, so the light of the essential moral principle shines now upon one duty and then upon another, while others are in the shadow.
Felix Adler
#92. Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself.
Jane Yolen
#93. The man who walks in the shadow of vengeance is a different man from the man who walks in the light of justice.
Graeme Rodaughan
#94. But I'm completely innocent in this case. I'm the victim. Don't you understand? If she'd just dressed in an appropriate manner, nothing would have happened. I'm a peaceful man, and now I'm going to prison.
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Steen Langstrup
#95. Psalm 91
My Refuge and My Fortress
91:1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say to the Lord, My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.
LaNina King
#96. He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast.
James Joyce
#97. [T]he habit of living as if in the shadow of death has remained with me, and I consider that, too, a gift.
Sonia Sotomayor
#98. It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I actually haven't left yet.
Ani DiFranco
#99. I covered the body with a rug. You think I'm an idiot?
Bruno Hanson
In The Shadow of Sadd.
Steen Langstrup
#100. People eat and sleep in the shadow of what we do
Don DeLillo
