Shade Quotes

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

Life, Friendship, Sunshine

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett

Time, Today, Long

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin

Made, Hide, Talents

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Sunshine, Friends, Leaving

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
Leo Buscaglia

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
Voltaire

Before, Support, Virtue

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.
Charles Dickens

Sun, Light, Wind

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Baltasar Gracian

Companion, Casts

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.
Kevyn Aucoin

Life, Heart, Short

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Tom Peters

Down, Window, Pull

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Les Brown

Time, Today, Long

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
Rudyard Kipling

Beautiful, Made, Singing

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane Austen

Perfect, Fine, Sit

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.
Samuel Johnson

Sunshine, Enjoy, Quit

Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.
Jodi Picoult

Gay, Nothing, Different

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
D. Elton Trueblood

Life, Human, Made

I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.
Carole Lombard

Time, Live, Forget

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
Edward Abbey

Purpose, Tree, Tiny

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.
Imelda Staunton

Work, Sadness, Important

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
Truman Capote

Music, Yourself, Writing

NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.
James Lovelock

Sunshine, Sun, Big

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning

Mind, Measure, Height

I love to see other women in pink. It's good for every shade of skin and hair.
Elizabeth Hurley

Love, Good, Women

We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
Caroline Norton

Sunshine, Together, Friends

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

Off, Rules, Beach

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.
Jennifer M. Granholm

Leadership, May, Happen

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.
Archibald MacLeish

Long, Spring, Around

The cast clubs were a big part of it, too. I found I wasn't getting that instant feedback I was used to with a forged blade. The sweet spot is a shade bigger, and when I didn't hit the ball dead center, I didn't know it, because it still felt great.
Payne Stewart

Great, Big, Dead

I adore Smashbox lip stains. I carry a natural color for daytime and a berry shade for going out at night.
Jennifer Morrison

Night, Color, Natural

They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade.
Keith Emerson

Boring, Play, Light

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