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Quotes About Shade

Red lipstick has always been a classic. You have seen the red lip on people from Marilyn Monroe to Marilyn Manson. The right shade of red can turn a boring look into a bold, eye-catching statement.
~ Jeffree Star
You can't say the word 'queen' without a little bit of 'drama' in front of it, right? It comes with the territory. Throwing shade and all that is part of the gig, but it should all kind of be in fun at the end of the day. When you start turning down that dark road where there's no light? Sometimes you put the car in park.
~ Alyssa Edwards
If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.
~ Jenny Eclair
I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.
~ Rachel Kushner
Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.
~ Stonewall Jackson
the generation next to the early emigrants, wore the blackest shade of Puritanism, and so darkened the national visage with it, that all the subsequent years have not sufficed to clear it up.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light
~ Charles Bukowski
A traveller on a dusty road ?Strewed acorns on the lea; And one took root and sprouted up, ?And grew into a tree. Love sought its shade at evening-time, ?To breathe its early vows; And Age was pleased, in heights of noon, ?To bask beneath its boughs. The dormouse loved its dangling twigs, ?The birds sweet music bore— It stood a glory in its place, ?A blessing evermore.
~ Charles Mackay
Clunk! Something hit the back of his head and he turned quickly, silently, and peered through the gap in the leaves to where Temba crouched in another tree, waiting, his black skin scarcely visible in the deep green shade among the branches. Temba moved his left arm slowly, pointing down to Madu's right.
~ Tim Vicary
The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife.
~ Toby Hemenway
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
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
Under an orchard tree, dropping with cherries, cowgirls lay in the shade. They fed each other fruit. Dark juice dribbled into dimples. Cherry meat stained smiles and nostrils.
~ Tom Robbins
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
It's June and the city is ripe with meaningless fecal heat. It will be a different kind of hot in LA, the kind that made the Beach Boys all tan and giddy, a heat that doesn't harass you in the shade.
~ Caroline Kepnes
The Mind, that Ocean where each kind Does streight its own resemblance find; Yet it creates, transcending these, Far other Worlds, and other Seas; Annihilating all that's made To a green Thought in a green Shade. Andrew Marvell The Garden
~ George Monbiot
Hot sun, cool fire, tempered with sweet air,Black shade, fair nurse, shadow my white hair,Shine sun, burn fire, breathe air, and ease me,Black shade, fair nurse, shroud me and please me.
~ George Peele
Shadows." The world seemed darker when he said it. "Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. Some are thin and weak, others long and dark.
~ George R.R. Martin
Every man who walks the earth casts a shadow on the world. Some are thin and weak, others long and dark.
~ George R.R. Martin
you get forests of almond and walnut trees, casting shade as cool as a well, thick battalions of spear-like cypress and silver-trunked fig trees with leaves as large as a salver.
~ Gerald Durrell
As we left the road and made our way up the hillside through the olive groves sparkling with light and shade, coloured with a hundred wild flowers, I stopped to pick some anemones for Mother. While I gathered the wine-coloured flowers
~ Gerald Durrell
fed under the orange and lemon trees
~ Gerald Durrell
Talking cheerfully, we would set out, and the dogs, tongues lolling, tails wagging, would leave the shade of the tangerine trees and follow us.
~ Gerald Durrell
Even in the shade of the olive groves it was not cool
~ Gerald Durrell