Quotes on Shadows

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.

It is only in the shadows, when some fresh wave, truly original, truly creative, breaks upon the shore, that there will be a rediscovery of the West.

One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

For transgender kids who are struggling, I want them to know they're not alone. They shouldn't be afraid to step out of their shadows.

If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.