Shadow Child Quotes

#1. It is evil," the Old Wise One said. "For very long we have walked carefree in the only paradise. It would be better if all here were to die." The last Shadow child said firmly, "Nothing is worse than that I should die," and something that had wrapped the world was gone.

Gene Wolfe

#2. I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done.

Jayson Blair

#3. For a city to be beautiful, it must have a mysterious air!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the child of God. There must be light, else there could be no shadow. Jesus is the light. He has overcome death.

Dwight L. Moody

#5. I had to learn quick, because I was performing in Cinco de Mayo festivals with babies crying and people lifting their beers, and you know the feather dancers would come, and they'd say, "What are you, a poet? You're next".

Sandra Cisneros

#6. Why does it always seem that I have only the shadow of my father? I'm like a child constantly grabbing at his coattails and missing.

Libba Bray

#7. There was a good chance that Shaw was going to break my heart and that was big and scary because I didn't even know I had a heart to break before she came along.

Jay Crownover

#8. There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#9. No. Please do not name either child after me, Elayne. Let them live their own lives. My shadow will be long enough as it is.'
-Rand

Robert Jordan

#10. My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea.

Andy Rooney

#11. A mother can see into her child's heart merely by looking at his shadow.

Jang Jin-sung

#12. It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?

Stephen King

#13. The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children.

Stefan Molyneux

#14. Shadow is Light's child. It is nothing without the Light, and nothing if it falls into Darkness.

Anne Hamilton

#15. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank

#16. I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.

Madeleine L'Engle

#17. This is how talents weave from generation to generation, how the shadow stretches, and how an artist born nearly a hundred years earlier begins to fill the soul of a child who shares his name.

Mitch Albom

#18. I wonder by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd? - DONNE

Anonymous

#19. Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of Communism.

Winston S. Churchill

#20. Some people just wanna see the world burn

Heath Ledger

#21. As you get older, the child within you begins to suffocate in the shadow of the man you are destined to become.

Charles Lee

#22. What is a shadow? It is the self without a face or a name, all outline and no feature, the self on the verge of being erased. It is the incidental child of matter and light. Look how it spreads itself on the ground, weary but weightless, unable to leave a trace.

Conchitina Cruz

#23. Isn't it better when people are pleasantly surprised rather than mildly disappointed by that which is you?

Stacey Turis

#24. When we will learn to use the power of kindness and love we will fill the world with peace and happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#25. How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

Walter Scott

#26. Even on especially hard days, I began to notice him everywhere, setting a table before me in the presence of my enemies, pursuing me with his love. Both the child and the cynic walk through the valley of the shadow of death. The cynic focuses on the darkness; the child focuses on the Shepherd.

Paul Miller

#27. A few years ago, she thought someone had finally come to love her and accepted her unconditionally, but she was wrong. You couldn't really define love with money. It was more than that.

Diyar Harraz

#28. The savage who loves himself, his wife and child with quiet joy and glows with limited activity of his tribe as for his own life is in my opinion a more real being than that cultivated shadow who is enraptured with the shadow of the whole species

Johann Gottfried Herder

#29. Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.

Herbert Ward

#30. I'll be so quiet for you.
Look like a child for you.
Be like a shadow of a shadow
Of a shadow for you.

Mike Hadreas

#31. But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window
maybe rearrange all the furniture.

Raymond Carver

#32. If I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

Patrick Rothfuss

#33. I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up.

Deepak Chopra

#34. So with Easter. It was fun, as a child, to bound down the stairs to find seasonal sweet-treats under each plate, but again, with the passing of time, and the shadow of death over our broken family circle, I've seen Easter as highest necessity. If hope is to flourish, it had better be true.

Gerhard E Frost

#35. the Father uses the valley of shadow to teach you about His sufficiency and goodness. Don't despair, child, while you're walking through it.

Angela Elwell Hunt

#36. Perhaps it's natural for a father, for every parent, to see in his child all that's unspoiled and good.

Vaddey Ratner

#37. I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history to leave, of that monstrous dwarf Queen Victoria.

John Fowles

#38. If shadows were caused by the interplay between light and Life, a child's was still forming. An adult's was inextricably bound to his body, but a child had a tenuous relationship to his own permanence, and thus, his own shadow.

Anne Ursu

#39. A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

Tim Crouch

#40. With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting.

David Morse

#41. We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

Willie Stargell