Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
Jerome K. Jerome
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
Rudyard Kipling
I am not the flag: not at all. I am but its shadow.
Franklin Knight Lane
Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln
There stands the shadow of a glorious name.
Lucan
Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
There is a shadow on every page.
Eugene Ormandy
The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a... →
Charlie Pierce