Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance.

Every animal has his or her story his or her thoughts daydreams and interests. All feel joy and love pain and fear as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.

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.

I am not bound for any public place but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

I genuinely don't feel that anything that's been written or said about me has overshadowed my music and that's the most important thing as far as I'm concerned.

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

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Where love rules there is no will to power and where power predominates there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Love is a trap. When it appears we see only its light not its shadows.

Life's but a walking shadow a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more it is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.