Best shadow & children Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“For me this world was neither so high nor so low as the Church would have it; chequered over with its wild light shadows, I could love it and all the children of it, more dearly, perhaps, because it was not all light.”

World Children Light Church This World Lows Shadow

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.”

Men Way Believe Children Real Faces Fighting Sex Ability Danger Thousand Shadow Fairs Charm Frightened Hiding Ratios Unafraid Inverse Prowess Hiding In The Shadows

Book:Under the Moons of Mars

Source: Under the Moons of Mars

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Children Suffering Evil Grows Poor Growing Up Conditions Shadow Abuse Tendencies Educated Collectives Manifest Humiliated Diabolical Inhumane

Author:Deepak Chopra

“The religion of our fathers overhung us children like the shadow of a mighty tree against the trunk of which we rested, while we looked up in wonder through the great boughs that half hid and half revealed the sky. Some of the boughs were already decaying, so that perhaps we began to see a little more of the sky than our elders; but the tree was sound at its heart.”

Heart Children Littles Religion Father Sound Half Wonder Tree Sky Shadow Elders Our Father Trunks

Author:Lucy Larcom

“A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image,--the broken glimmer of a countenance. But the features of genius remain unruffled. Time guards the shadow. Beauty, the spiritual, Venus,--whose children are the Tassos, the Spensers, the Bacons,--breathes, the magic of her love, and fixes the face forever.”

Giving Children Book Faces Spiritual Forever Magic Talent Broken Genius Shadow Mirrors Shining Breathe Features Over It Imperfect Countenance Venus Spenser

Author:Robert Aris Willmott

“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.”

Giving Children Age Faces Death Dies Waiting Sweet Victory Giving Up Angel Shadow Saint Ghost Anguish Bosoms

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“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.”

Ifs Children Stills Body Light Adults Shadow Bounds Permanence

Book:The Shadow Thieves

Source: The Shadow Thieves

“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.”

Ifs Children Fun Sweet Broken Highest Shadow Treats Bounds Circles Passing Passings Being True Plates Easter Stairs Shadow Of Death Broken Family

Author:Gerhard E Frost

“I would want my children to grow up and do what they wish to in a field that they choose to step in. They should not have to use the shadow of their father's name. I think that is a bit of a downer for a movie star's children.”

Thinking Want Should Children Use Father Names Wish Stars Grows Bits Steps Growing Up Fields Shadow My Children Movie Star Downers

Author:Shahrukh Khan

“We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.”

“If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.”

Ifs Children Together Values Sun Seeing Shadow Tough Scientist Our Children Thinker Tough Times

Author:Rita Dove

“There are 11 million people living in the shadows. I believe they deserve to come out of the shadows. The children who are brought here when they were children, they deserve that kind of consideration as well.”

People Believe Wells Kind Children I Believe Millions Shadow Deserve Consideration

Author:John McCain

“When God's children pass under the shadow of the cross of Calvary, they know that through that shadow lies their passage to the great white throne. For them Gethsemane is as paradise. God fills it with sacred presences; its solemn silence is broken by the music of tender promises, its awful darkness softened and brightened by the sunlight of Heavenly faces and the music of angel wings.”

“I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him agesof education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.”

“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.”

Knows Children Ends Exercise Sitting Shadow Receiving Didactic

Author:Tim Crouch

“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.”

Men Children Father Parent Dad Shadow Parenting Boards Pleasant Oaks

Author:Voltaire

“Finally, a prominent nation is taking on the homosexual agenda and rejecting it outright. A number of African nations have done the same, but third-world countries are not newsworthy to mainstream media. The irony is stunning that a Communist nation would understand that preserving the value of men and women marrying and producing children makes for demographic survival, while many American Christian leaders cower in the shadows, in fear of activist homosexuals and their leftist supporters. I say 'cheers' to the Russians on this one. That nation will probably outlive America.”

“It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.”

Life Children Said Government Age Moral Shadow Tests Treats Sick Dawn Disability Twilight Elders Elderly Needy Handicaps Handicapped Light And Shadow Senior Citizen

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“Interestingly, the British government announced a few weeks ago that they were going to introduce 500 educational targets for preschool children. And teachers complained that “when are the children going to have time to play?” Well, they’re not supposed to play, because play is a right-brain, ad-lib, creative pursuit. The idiot politicians who are introducing it don’t understand this, but the shadow-people from which it is generated certainly do. They want to stimulate the left brain as early as possible.”

“Popular music had never had lyrical sophistication of this type [like Bob Dylan]; wit, to be sure, but "Darkness at the break of noon/Shadows even the silver spoon/The handmade blade, the child's balloon/Eclipses both the sun and moon/To understand you know too soon/ There is no sense in trying"? No.”

Knows Trying Children Break Darkness Sun Type Moon Shadow Wit Silver Bob Blades Dylan Noon Spoons Balloons Lyrical Eclipse Sophistication Popular Music Handmade Silver Spoons

Author:Bob Dylan

“My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up in the shadows of a North Carolina plantation. It's only been in my lifetime that blacks have had the right to vote, live in certain areas or hold certain jobs. It is with this black history that I write about the financial challenges African-Americans still have.”

“Half of the devices that we encounter in terrorism cases, in counterintelligence cases, in gang cases, in child pornography cases, cannot be opened with any technique. That is a big problem. And so the shadow continues to fall.”

Children Problem Fall Shadow Terrorism Pornography Gang

Author:James Comey

“If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?”

Ifs Knows Looks Children Doe Faces Lying Song Games Names Air Fields Color Moon Shadow Coffee Like Me Hills Eagles Full Moon New Moon Quiver Giraffe Gravel

Author:Isak Dinesen

“God is the highest good of the reasonable creature. The enjoyment of him is our proper; and is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Better than fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of any, or all earthly friends. These are but shadows; but the enjoyment of God is the substance. These are but scattered beams; but God is the sun. These are but streams; but God is the fountain. These are but drops, but God is the ocean.”

Source: The life and character of ... J. E. ... Together with a number of his sermons, etc

“Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.”

Source: Walt Disney: Conversations

“Do not resent your place in the story. Do not imagine yourself elsewhere. Do not close your eyes and picture a world without thorns, without shadows, without hawks. Change this world. Use your body like a tool meant to be used up, discarded, and replaced. Better every life you touch. We will reach the final chapter. When we have eyes that can stare into the sun, eyes that only squint for the Shenikah, then we will see laughing children pulling cobras by their tails, and hawks and rabbits playing tag.”

“Does he think to scare me? Arya kissed him where his nose should be and plucked the grave worm from his eye to eat it, but it melted like a shadow in her hand. The yellow skull was melting too, and the kindliest old man that she had ever seen was smiling down on her. "No one has ever tried to eat my worm before," he said. "Are you hungry, child?" Yes, she thought, but not for food.”

Thinking Men Should Children Doe Said Hands Eye Shadow Graves Hungry Noses His Eyes Old Man Scare Yellow Worms Melting Skulls

Author:George R. R. Martin

“The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.”

Children Play Past Black White Pleasure Comfort Shadow Rose Screens Lists Neighborhood Prime Black And White Cream Limbs Roger Petals Sidewalk Sparrows Ginger Raspberries

Author:Elizabeth Berg

“The shadow had followed behind them, clinging to their steps; and the two children little suspected its presence when they at last sat down, trustingly, under the mighty protection of Apollo, who, with a great bronze gesture, lifted his huge lyre to the heart of a crimson sky.”

Heart Children Littles Two Lasts Behinds Steps Sky Huge Shadow Protection Sat Gestures Apollo Clinging Bronze Crimson

Book:The Phantom of the Opera: Horror and Romance

Source: The Phantom of the Opera: Horror and Romance

“Men-kind shared this world for but a blink, then, sadly, they became enlightened, found science and religion. The new world of men left little room for magic or the magical creatures of old. Earth’s first children were driven into the shadows by flame and cold iron, by man’s insatiable need of conquest.”

“I dream dark dreams. I dream of a figure moving through the forest, of children flying from his path, of young women crying at his coming. I dream of snow and ice, of bare branches and moon-cast shadows. I dream of dancers floating in the air, stepping lightly even in death, and my own pain is but a faint echo of their suffering as I run. My blood is black on the snow, and the edges of the world are silvered with moonlight. I run into the darkness, and he is waiting. I dream in black and white, and I dream of him. I dream of Caleb, who does not exist, and I am afraid.”

Source: Dark Hollow: A Charlie Parker Thriller

“The world is rated R, and no one is checking IDs. Do not try to make it G by imagining the shadows away. Do not try to hide your children from the world forever, but do not pretend there is no danger . Train them. Give them sharp eyes and bellies full of laughter. Make them dangerous. Make them yeast, and when they’ve grown, they will pollute the shadows.”

World Giving Trying Children Eye Forever Dangerous Danger Laughter Shadow Train Your Children Belly Yeast Sharp Eyes

Author:N.D. Wilson

“In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived among shadows and silence, lent that setting a slight air of promise in which at least children and those who had learned the art of forgetting could still believe.”

People Believe Children Art Stills Light Certain Forget Silence Magic Air Mystery Expression Promise Shadow Winter Setting Settings Hopeful Auras

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows Follow sweet children I'll show thee the way through all the pain and the Sorrows Weep not poor childlen for life is this way murdering beauty and Passions Hush now dear children it must be this way to weary of life and Deceptions Rest now my children for soon we'll away into the calm and the Quiet Come little children I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment Come little children the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows”

Way Children Littles Play Shows Pain Life Is Passion Poor Land Sweet Sorrow Quiet Shadow Garden Calm Dear Thee Deception My Children Weary Enchantment Hush Sweet Child

Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.”

Ifs Heart Children Young Mets Shadow

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Hug your children...Kiss your mothers and fathers, your brothers and sisters. Tell them how much you love them, every day. Because every day is the last day. Every light casts a shadow. And only the gods know when the darkness will find us.”

Knows Children Light Lasts Mother Father Darkness Brother Kissing Shadow Casts Your Children Hug Brothers And Sisters God Knows Last Day Mother And Father Your Brother

Author:Seth Grahame-Smith

“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”

Children Long Enough Names Please Shadow

Author:Robert Jordan

“You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through.”

World Children Remember Dies House Black Space Masters Shadow Our Children Clouds Shoulders Welcome Als Brandy You Re Welcome

Book:A Memory of Light

Source: A Memory of Light

“We can't go on forever with 11 million people living in this country in the shadows in an illegal status. We cannot forever have children who were born here - who were brought here by their parents when they were small children to live in the shadows, as well... What's changed, honestly, is that there is a new appreciation on both sides of the aisle, maybe more importantly on the Republican side, that we need to enact a comprehensive immigration reform bill.”

“Child abuse casts a shadow the length of a lifetime.”

Children Violence Shadow Abuse Lifetime Casts Length Child Abuse Domestic Violence Violence Against Women Domestic Abuse Abusers Abused Children Molestation Abuse And Violence Sex Abuse

Author:Herbert Ward

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