Shades

Famous quotes containing the word shades:

    “The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “We saw Thee in Thy balmy nest,
    Young Dawn of our Eternal Day!
    We saw Thine eyes break from the East
    And chase the trembling shades away.
    We saw Thee and we blest the sight,
    We saw Thee by Thine own sweet light.”
    —Richard Crashaw (1613?–1649)

    “We should read history as little critically as we consider the landscape, and be more interested by the atmospheric tints and various lights and shades which the intervening spaces create than by its groundwork and composition.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)