Long Shadows Quotes

• Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows, and that kind of bright, soft light you get when the sun isn't quite setting? That's the light that makes everything better, everything prettier, and today, everything just seemed to be in that light.

  John Green

  Light, Long, Shadow

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.89, Penguin

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• The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.

  Confucius

  Men, Long, The End Of The Day

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• How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.

  Christopher Golden

  Kings, Long, Shadow

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• Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

  Diane Setterfield

  Past, Long, Shadow

  Diane Setterfield (2014). “Bellman & Black: A Novel”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

  A.S.A. Harrison

  Autumn, Wind, Long

  A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.96, Penguin

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• PRESENTIMENT is that long shadow on the lawn
  Indicative that suns go down;
  The notice to the startled grass
  That darkness is about to pass.

  Emily Dickinson

  Long, Darkness, Shadow

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.223, Harvard University Press

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• Our love of each other was like two long shadows kissing without hope of reality.

  Anais Nin

  Kissing, Reality, Two

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• A little man often cast a long shadow.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Men, Long, Shadow

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• You can't anticipate history. It's only when you look back you see what the Romans did, and what various other empires did, what the British Empire did. We're now beginning to see the long shadow that it created, so one must be hopeful and say that what's going on in Asia, that what's going on in the Middle East, that all these various areas of conflict, that they will pass and move onto another area. But it would seem that the natural order of things is there is this cyclic behavior of destruction followed by a calm period.

  Roma Tearne

  Moving, Order, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid day, when he is highest, none at all.

  Joseph Hall

  Long, Together, Shadow

  Joseph Hall (1824). “Select Tracts from the Writings of the ... Rev. J. Hall”, p.231

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• I'll lie here and learn How, over their ground, Trees make a long shadow And a light sound.

  Louise Bogan

  Lying, Light, Long

  Louise Bogan (1941). “Poems and new poems”

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• Fifty years from now Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and - as George Orwell said - “old maids bicycling to Holy Communion through the morning mist” and if we get our way - Shakespeare still read even in school.

  John Major

  Country, Dog, Morning

  John Major's speech to the Conservative Group for Europe, www.johnmajor.co.uk. April 22, 1993.

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• This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.

  Mervyn Peake

  Night, Ivy, Long

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.12, The Overlook Press

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• In the evening, I walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn coloring of night draw on, the last gleam of sunshine fading away on the hilltops, the seep serene of the asters, and the long shadows of the mountains thrown across them, till they nearly touched the hithermost shore. At distance hear the murmur of many waterfalls not audible in the day-time. Wished for the moon, but she was dark to me and silent, hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

  Thomas Gray

  Distance, Sunset, Dark

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• A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

  John Major

  Country, Dog, Morning

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• High trees cast long shadows. The happier and more blessed a woman's life is, the more duz she feel for them that are less blessed than she.

  Marietta Holley

  Blessed, Compassion, Long

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• Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were or ever thought They would be. Ever. Their lives have a size and a shape now. Estha has his and Rahel hers. Edges, Borders, Boundaries, Brinks and Limits have appeared like a team of trolls on their separate horizons. Short creatures with long shadows, patrolling the Blurry End. Gentle half-moons have gathered under their eyes and they are as old as Ammu was when she died.

  Arundhati Roy

  Team, Eye, Moon

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.3, Penguin Books India

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• You know, there's a big world out there filled with desperate orphans who would gladly swim across an ocean of thumbtacks just to be eclipsed by the long shadow that is cast by my accomplishments.

  Daniel Handler

  Ocean, Long, Accomplishment

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