Top 100 Quotes About The Shade
#1. I was getting dressed and a peeping tom looked in the window, took a look and pulled down the shade.
Joan Rivers
#2. I planted a tree. You'd think my neighbors would be happy for the shade it would provide them, but no, they said I planted it too close to their house. Since when is six inches too close?
Jarod Kintz
#4. One deep breath makes me ready for the next one and then the next one and with each deep breath I feel a little readier until I jump out of bed and pull up the shade
Robert M. Pirsig
#5. She lit up the darkness surrounding The Shade, and for a kingdom that had no mornings, only eternal night, her light was life.
Bella Forrest
#6. Is this love? The light looks different. Actually the shade looks different. I feel different. Everything is just so different I don't know where to begin ...
Chloe Thurlow
#7. He speaks truly who speaks the shade.
Paul Celan
#8. It was tall, made of pale blue light, a creature with long arms and long legs and the shadow of a smile, and above it all, eyes that shone bluer still than its body. "What do you seek in this place?" the shade asked plainly.
Robin Sloan
#9. Len Colter sat in the shade under the wall of the horse barn, eating pone and sweet butter and contemplating a sin.
Leigh Brackett
#10. But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.
Thomas Jefferson
#11. Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, Contemn'd; it shrinks to nothing in the grasp.
Edward Young
#12. The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
#13. Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost.
Louisa May Alcott
#14. The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
Muhammad
#16. When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.
David Eagleman
#17. to be a poet means
to live
with a permanent wound
forever
susceptible
to either
the shade
of the sky
or someone's eyes.
Sanober Khan
#18. A lizard, resting in the shade of the anthill, studied Atkinson with interest, tilting its head this way and that. Atkinson studied it in return. A small, dull brown animal, usually it would not catch Atkinson's attention, but under the circumstances it became a thing of beauty.
Martin Marais
#20. Ultimately, it was Derek who made life in The Shade worth living. I
Bella Forrest
#21. Colter was so particular about the colors she used in decorating that she sometimes mixed her own. For the interior of Bright Angel Lodge she made a special shade of blue, and she was so insistent that the painters mix the shade exactly as she wanted it that they dubbed it "Mary Jane Blue.
Virginia L. Grattan
#22. It's ninety-six degrees in the shade ...
Before I catch blood on my blade.
Keith Murray
#23. Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.
George Washington
#24. By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms; and by that means build actual dwellings spiritual and material for our Eucharistic Lord.
Therese Of Lisieux
#25. Talk about songs that make me cry: Track 7 on the 'Phineas and Ferb' soundtrack, 'Summer (Where Do We Begin?).' When you get to the part about sitting with your brother underneath the shade of a big tree in the backyard, ohmygod. Turn on the waterworks.
Christopher Gorham
#26. Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin
#27. If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth', or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.
Victoria Finlay
#28. Persian envoy "our arrows will black out the sun ... " Dienekes of the Spartans.."Good, then we'll fight in the shade.
Steven Pressfield
#29. It's not odd these days to hear politicians trumpeting their own authenticity, a claim that an earlier day would have considered self-cancelling. But when Michelle Bachman, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum say "I'm authentic," they're not evoking the shade of Neal Cassady. (102)
Geoffrey Nunberg
#30. When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
T.E. Lawrence
#31. Every anxiety is a mild form of premonition, and from that point the shade deepens till we get the forebodings and hauntings that merge into lunacy.
Arthur Alfred Lynch
#32. Oh! that we two were Maying
Down the stream of the soft spring breeze;
Like children with violets playing,
In the shade of the whispering trees.
Charles Kingsley
#33. I can pass days
Stretch'd in the shade of those old cedar trees,
Watching the sunshine like a blessing fall,
The breeze like music wandering o'er the boughs,
Each tree a natural harp,
each different leaf
A different note, blent in one vast thanksgiving.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#35. Granted: I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peep-hole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.
Gunter Grass
#36. Maximoff lowers his voice. 'The shade is called My Lips Against Your Lips, and it's not coming off. Stop rubbing and let's form a plan.
Becca Ritchie
#37. There are liasons which would put yours in the shade ...
Hilary Mantel
#38. They ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked trees which promised cooling; they flung themselves into the shade to taste their lip sweat and contemplate the wildness that had come upon them so suddenly
Toni Morrison
#39. My word is law on this island. She is the woman I love. So shall her words also be law upon The Shade ... unless I say otherwise.
Bella Forrest
#40. To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen
#41. Was young I lived upon my mother's milk, as I could not eat grass. In the daytime I ran by her side, and at night I lay down close by her. When it was hot we used to stand by the pond in the shade of the trees,
Anna Sewell
#42. They passed out of the shade beneath the eaves and flew into sunglare and silence and it was an action she only partly saw, elusive and mutely beautiful, the birds so sunstruck they were consumed by light, disembodied, turned into something sheer and fleet and scatter-bright.
Don DeLillo
#43. This is the problem when you create enemies, Erika. They go off and plot, and often flourish in the shade.
Robert Bryndza
#44. Cinderella was grateful for the shade as she tried bending the willow branch and was whacked in the face for her efforts.
K.M. Shea
#45. The Young Wrecker on the Florida Reef, and Reap the Wild Wind, Oliver Griswold's The Florida Keys and the Coral Reef, and McGuane's Ninety-two in the Shade.
Tom Corcoran
#46. Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
Charles Dickens
#47. the worst decisions are made under the shade of loneliness.
R H Sin
#48. Life is not about the shadow you cast on your enemies but the shade you provide to your friends
Jeff Loveness
#49. many a medal awarded in any war represents just the shade of difference which separates a commendation from a court martial.
Charles Lockwood
#50. Mature affection, homage, devotion, does not easily express itself. Its voice is low. It is modest and retiring, it lies in ambush, waits and waits. Such is the mature fruit. Sometimes a life glides away, and finds it still ripening in the shade.
Charles Dickens
#51. Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.
Maimonides
#52. Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.
Lord Byron
#53. How come you're so different, I asked once, as we sat in the shade of the pine tree. Yukiko's answer, a sentence learned by heart: Because I fell from a star.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#54. war. But I had a good uncle named Alex, who said, when life was most agreeable - and it could be just a pitcher of lemonade in the shade - he would say, "If this isn't nice, what is?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#55. Smart people that like good health spend several hours outdoors daily in the shade of trees.
Steven Magee
#56. your life under the shade of faith was a continuous love story . Worship and religion in their true essence are nothing but love.
Ahmad Bahjat
#57. Many of us are sundials in the shade. Things aren't working, but we are not broken. We are just in the wrong spot. We need to move out of the shade and into the sun, or we need to start chopping down trees.
David J. Rendall
#58. The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.
E.B. White
#59. 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
#60. If you were smart, you'd probably spend more time stretching, he said & I said, If I were really smart, I'd probably spend more time just sitting in the shade drinking lemonade.
Brian Andreas
#61. Perhaps sometimes in life, no matter how much you want to, you can't grow into the person you are meant to be while you're standing in the shade or the sunlight of someone else.
Mandy Hale
#62. Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue.
Leonard Boswell
#63. I need the shade of blue that rips your heart out. You don't see that type of blue around here.
Cath Crowley
#64. I couldn't resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown.
He's just not as tall, but I couldn't tell, it was dark and I was lying down.
Amy Winehouse
#65. I have little feet because nothing grows in the shade.
Dolly Parton
#67. The reason there are so many tree-lined boulevards in Paris is so the German army can march in the shade.
George S. Patton
#68. While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus she, who in life was disregarded, became precious by death.
Martial
#69. Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful!' and sitting in the shade.
Rudyard Kipling
#70. She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of the ground. In the shade and sun of grass blade forests, small living things had their metropolis.
Nancy Price
#71. You can't rest in the shade of a human, not even a roly-poly one; and isn't it refreshing that trees can undergo periodic change without having a nervous breakdown over it?
Tom Robbins
#72. Let us cross the river to the other side and rest beneath the shade of the trees.
[Stonwall Jackson just before passing into eternity in 1863.]
Thomas Jackson
#73. Grey is the shade of life, like shadows.
Aporva Kala
#74. I came from the musical stage. My first show was '110 In The Shade.' I started as a ballet dancer and then sort of gravitated toward musical theater, so any time I got asked to sing or dance, it was a joy for me.
Lesley Ann Warren
#75. Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
Galina Vishnevskaya
#76. We'll be alone in the hotel. Almost the only guests. You can rest all day and think of nothing, nothing. It doesn't matter who you are or how you got stuck here or where you're going next. You don't even have to move. You lie in the shade. I know you like to lie in the shade.
Anonymous
#77. A sunny disposition is worth more than fortune. Young people should know that it can be cultivated; that the mind, like the body can be moved from the shade into sunshine.
Andrew Carnegie
#78. Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, I don't want to be just another blade of grass.
Simone De Beauvoir
#79. Reassured that we all have balls, gents?" the captain quipped.
Livingston glanced indicatively at the unconscious girl in the shade. "Not so reassured, captain.
Matt Tomerlin
#80. With warning hand I mark Time's rapid flight,
From Life's glad morning to its solemn night;
Yet, through the dear Lord's love, I also show
There's light above me by the shade I throw.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#81. When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand by this simply that its image has altered the shade of a thousand perceptions or memories, and that in this sense it pervades them, although it does not itself come into view.
Henri Bergson
#82. I object," said the man emphatically. He stopped work again and studied Elnora. Even the watching mother could not blame him. Against the embankment, in the shade of the bridge Elnora's bright head, and her lavender dress made a picture worthy of much contemplation.
I object!" repeated the man.
Gene Stratton-Porter
#83. This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open.
Victor Hugo
#84. ...there is something which impresses the mind with awe in the shade and silence of these vast forests. In the deep solitude, alone with nature, we converse with God.
Thaddeus Mason Harris
#85. False teammates are like our shadows. They keep close to us when we are all walking in the sunshine, but they are gone the instant we just go into the shade, let alone the darkness.
John Kessel
#86. That day was the beginning of my friendship with Sebastian, and thus it came about, that morning in June, that I was lying beside him in the shade of the high elms watching the smoke from his lips drift up into the branches.
Evelyn Waugh
#87. It is indeed acceptable practice to sometimes split an infinitive. If infinitive-splitting makes available just the shade of meaning you desire or if avoiding the separation creates a confusing ambiguity or patent artificiality, you are entitled to happily go ahead and split!
Richard Lederer
#89. I was so full of missing her that I felt my heart would splinter into a thousand tiny pieces, but I found comfort in the thought of them together up there in the shade of those old trees, overlooking the bay. It tempered my grief ever so slightly, like a feather come to lodge in a dark place.
Ute Carbone
#90. I told her that until he had a real felt need he was just going to resent help, so we went over and sat in the shade and waited.
Robert M. Pirsig
#91. Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.
William Wordsworth
#92. Express yourself through your art - whether it's your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.
Kat Von D.
#93. If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Tom Peters
#94. You might be a redneck if the best way to keep things cold is to leave'em in the shade.
Jeff Foxworthy
#95. 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
#96. Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!
Anonymous
#97. The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.
J. K. Bharavi
#98. ... the warm glazes, the sparkling penumbra of the room itself and, through the little window framed with honeysuckle, in the rustic avenue, the resilient dryness of the sun-parched earth, veiled only by the diaphanous gauze woven of distance and the shade of the trees.
Marcel Proust
#99. I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors ... and it's the shade that defines the light.
Tori Amos
#100. The shade melted away as the sun climbed into its zenith. All colors were now covered in stone dust. The only vigorous activity came from the bushes, where cicada songs pulsed like alien hearts.
Aleksandr Voinov
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