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Quotes About Shade

I stood under the portico of the main house and rang the chimes. The day had already turned warm, but it was cool in the shade and the air smelled of damp brick and four-o'clock flowers and the mint that grew under the water faucets
~ James Lee Burke
Lost, is it, buried? One more missing piece? But nothing's lost. Or else: all is translation And every bit of us is lost in it (Or found — I wander through the ruin of S Now and then, wondering at the peacefulness) And in that loss a self-effacing tree, Color of context, imperceptibly Rustling with its angel, turns the waste To shade and fiber, milk and memory.
~ James Merrill
I'm the blackest member of my family. You know, these mixed families produce children of all colors, and in Jamaica, the question of exactly what shade you were, in colonial Jamaica, that was the most important question. Because you could read off class and education and status from that. I was aware and conscious of that from the very beginning.
~ Stuart Hall
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
~ Thomas Jefferson
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
~ Thomas Jefferson
All play, all sport, until Ferdia came to the ford. I thought beloved Ferdia would live forever after me - yesterday, a mountain-side; today, nothing but a shade.
~ Thomas Kinsella
for that which is a disgrace to human nature, throws something of a shade over all the human character, and each individual feels his share of the wound that is given to the whole.
~ Thomas Paine
Our success in this matter is important to all Americans. Whether you are in the forest land business or just enjoy the shade of a majestic oak gracing your lawn, we all have an interest in this important issue.
~ Leonard Boswell
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree long ago.
~ Warren Buffett
I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so that I could not make out a single word. My life was a beautiful mystery on the verge of understanding, always on the verge! Think of it!
~ Charles Simic
The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.
~ Author Unknown
Paco had a way with plants.....Sara believed that whenever he walked under a tree it grew a new branch to shade him.
~ Harriet Doerr
Len Colter sat in the shade under the wall of the horse barn, eating pone and sweet butter and contemplating a sin.
~ Leigh Brackett
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade.
~ Leo Buscaglia
All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.
~ Leo Tolstoy
There is something so enchanting in the smile of melancholy. It is a ray of light in the darkness, a shade between sadness and despair, showing the possibility of consolation.
~ Leo Tolstoy
No leaf will decay because we are removed, nor any branch become motionless although we can observe you no longer!—No; you will continue the same; unconscious of the pleasure or the regret you occasion, and insensible of any change in those who walk under your shade!—But who will remain to enjoy you?
~ Jane Austen
With such warm feelings and lively spirits it must be difficult to do justice to her affection for Mrs. Crawford, without throwing a shade on the Admiral.
~ Jane Austen
For lunch, we drove into the hills and parked in the dappled shade of a big sycamore, its powdery white bark like a woman's body against the uncanny blue sky.
~ Janet Fitch
Those watercolourists who work from light to dark know that the darks do the damage.
~ Bill Luff
Of so much moon were your hips to me, of all the sun your deep mouth and its delight, of so much burning light like honey in the shade
~ Pablo Neruda
Settle your perfect hips here and the bow of wet arrows loosens into the night the petals that form your form let your clay limbs climb the silence and its pale ladder rung by rung taking off with me in my dream. I can sense you scaling the shade tree that sings to the shadows. Dark is the world's night without you my love
~ Pablo Neruda
I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight..
~ Dan Brown