The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.

Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

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.

The dark shadow we seem to see in the distance is not really a mountain ahead, but the shadow of the mountain behind - a shadow from the past thrown forward into our future. It is a dark sludge of historical sectarianism. We can leave it behind us if we wish.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

The black shadow cares for itself, not for you.