Quotes about: dreams

When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.
– Janet McTeer
When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you feel like you can't make a difference.
– AnnaSophia Robb
When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
– Marian Anderson
When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.
– Desmond Tutu
When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.
– Karen Armstrong
When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
– Roger Federer
When I was in high school, I don't know that I really had big dreams.
– Alan Jackson
When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor, do they? Now I realise how stupid that is - and it's because comic acting isn't taken seriously enough. It's a discipline. You know instantly - either you're funny and getting the laughs, or you're not.
– Chris O'Dowd
When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant.
– Masaharu Morimoto
When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.'
– Diana Nyad
When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.
– Jane Goodall
When I grew up, I only had two dreams. One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.
– Chris Kyle
When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.
– Azar Nafisi
When I began to choreograph and find my way pulling other artists' dreams out and changing music in a visual way, there was still a part of me that had something more to say. There was still a desire to rock a stage and ultimately perform the eight count of my dream, but there was a lot of insecurity there.
– Laurieann Gibson
When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.
– Stephen Spender
Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.
– Annette Funicello
What's interesting is, for myself, when I become really attracted to somebody, I find them in my dreams... conversations, nothing more.
– Alice Englert
What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.
– Marco Rubio
What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and they in turn can listen to ours.
– Henning Mankell
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
– Manuel Puig
What are the Democrats, the party of Jim Matheson, telling them? The message of the Democrats is that the Amercian dream is over. 'The government is all you have. Give up your dreams, and the government will save you, the government will heal you, the government will be your hope and change.' We know here in Utah, none of that is true.
– Mia Love
Well, my thoughts about California are kind of mythological. To me, as well as being a real place, it's a place where people go to find something - to find happiness or to realize their dreams. So it has that kind of quality of heroism and heartache, and Australia has that, as well.
– Colin Hay
We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.
– Jesse Jackson
We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.
– Marco Rubio
We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.
– Puff Daddy
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
– Doris Lessing
We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.
– Lenny Wilkens
We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.
– Vicente Fox
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans.
– Max Beerbohm
We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.
– Thomas S. Monson
We live because of the dreams.
– Marat Safin
We in the majority have worked hard to empower people to create opportunities, to make jobs, to do things that turn America into a place where people can achieve their dreams.
– Robin Hayes
We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.
– Jon Huntsman, Jr.
We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.
– David Amram
We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.
– Ruth Handler
We control the content of our dreams.
– Thom Gunn
We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.
– Sonia Braga
We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.
– Bernard Loiseau
We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.
– Katie Holmes
Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.
– Emmitt Smith
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
– Khalil Gibran
Too many athletes are living in a tiny window. They have no vision for themselves - what they can be outside of football and what they can mean to a community. They just don't know any better. My hopes and dreams are unlimited.
– Junior Seau
Today, I'm very happy about myself, because I realized my dreams. I learned how to understand what people want.
– Roberto Cavalli
Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
– Candace Parker
To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.
– Lady Gaga
To see your friend's dreams come true, there's really nothing that can make you happier.
– Josh Hopkins
To me, what I love about the draft is first, you see the young men who are realizing their dreams that they've worked so hard for. That's a pretty cool thing. You saw the emotion from some of these guys the other day. And then, the second thing is this total sense of hope and optimism. And, I think that's great for everybody.
– Roger Goodell
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
– Giorgio de Chirico
To be here today is just beyond my wildest dreams.
– Rick Yune
To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms.
– Christina Aguilera
To all the kids out there: Follow your dream. Believe in your dream. Because dreams do come true.
– Rickey Henderson
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
– Anais Nin
Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.
– Benjamin Carson
Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?
– Simon Sinek
Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.
– Sara Teasdale
Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.
– Novak Djokovic
This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.
– Corey Hart
This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.
– Radha Mitchell
Things have gone beyond my wildest expectations and dreams, and I feel like I've been given so many blessings in my life, between my friendship with the guys in the band, our wonderful audience, being able to play this music, and then my family.
– Trey Anastasio
They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.
– Ruth Handler
They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.
– Alice Cooper
They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions.
– Ethan A. Hitchcock
There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
– Rachel Griffiths
There's always going to be dreams and goals I have, but I never really tell people what they are.
– Tyra Banks
There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.
– Paul Bryant
There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you information.
– Justin Theroux
There's a line I have that our family was designed more for public than for private. But there are definitely some things that are only mine. I am someone who dreams at night, and you don't know what I'm dreaming.
– Carrie Fisher
There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.
– William Shatner
There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.
– James Cameron
There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams.
– Katy Perry
Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That's when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality.
– Derek Luke
The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
– Samuel Johnson
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.
– William S. Burroughs
The Washington black community was able to succeed beyond his wildest dreams. I mean, we had our own newspapers, our own restaurants, our own theaters, our own small shops, our own clubs, our own Masonic lodges.
– Ed Smith
The usual comment from psychologists and psychiatrists was that it's best not to encourage people to look at their dreams because they are liable to stir up problems for themselves.
– Henry Reed
The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
– Ella Maillart
The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
– Harlan Coben
The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.
– Steve Winwood
The Oval Office symbolizes... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.
– Andrew Card
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
– Tupac Shakur
The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obama's 'Dreams From My Father' is Jimmy Carter's short campaign autobiography, 'Why Not the Best?,' published in 1975.
– Jonathan Raban
The Olympics is about letting people believe in their own dreams.
– Kyle Shewfelt
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
– Edgar Allan Poe
The name Air Supply sort of came from nowhere. I get a lot of my things in dreams and I just had a dream about it one night, and I woke up and said that's just got to be the name. That was in 1975.
– Graham Russell
The London Games will be designed for the athletes and we will provide them with the very best venues and the very best conditions to pursue their sporting dreams in London.
– Sebastian Coe
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
– Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
– Sigmund Freud
The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the E.U. and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I am convinced our dreams will come true.
– Atifete Jahjaga
The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.
– Stedman Graham
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
– Charlotte Bronte
The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.
– James Fallows
The Hispanic community values entrepreneurship and family-owned businesses, and we deserve a leader in Washington who is dedicated to creating an environment where our values, our goals and our dreams of prosperity can become reality.
– Mario Diaz-Balart
The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
– Gaston Bachelard
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The follow your dreams thing is really important because so many people are railroaded into taking other paths by their family, their friends, people who should be supportive going, 'What are you talking about?' Even just seemingly regular career paths, but if it's not what people expect for you they kind of react funny.
– Joan Jett
The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits , who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.
– Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.
– Robert A. M. Stern
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
– Marya Mannes