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“Australians must decide for themselves whether this was the land of the dreaming, the land of the Holy Spirit, the New , the Millennial , or the new demesne for to infest.”
Manning Clark (1915–1991) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A History of Australia, Vol. 6 (1987)
“And when the small tin lamp that went off most of the times when i was almost finishing my homework, i started dreaming of my own light. I dreamt of having electricity in future and i forgot all the reasons why something should not work and found on reason why it should.”
Peninah Musyimi (born 1978) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I Am the Change", YouTube (2014)
“I have memories of my childhood dreaming, drawing and always building like any other child.”
Mbali Dlamini wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He takes satisfaction in having quite lived by his stoic creed: give what you can and take what comes. Concession not freely given is in the end forcibly extracted anyway. For we are all swimmers ephemerally buoyed by what will engulf us at the last; still dreaming of islands though the mainland has been lost; swept remorselessly out to sea while we spread our arms to the beautiful shore.”
Peter De Vries (1910–1993) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Peckham's Marbles (1986), final lines (of De Vries's last book)
“All architecture is geometry, in dreaming, in thinking, in representation, in translation, in realization, in completion.”
Piero Portaluppi (1888–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have been dreaming of an outdoor world record forever, now I want them all: the 1500, the 5000, even the 800.”
Tirunesh Dibaba (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to tell children to never stop dreaming; cinema is a vehicle for openness that helps them grow and travel”
Eye Haidara (born 1983) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Eye Haïdara, godmother of My First Festival;Eye Haïdara, sponsor of My First Festival 2023,Updated on 09/28/2023,by Paris newsletters
“If Humanity can be saved and this Pale Blue Dot transformed into a really good place to live, at least without poverty and wars, then not by people who see life as worthless and spend it dreaming of mansions of gold in an imaginary world, but by people who don’t flee from reality and are guided not by primitive mythological beings, but by reason: freethinkers.”
Paulo Bittencourt (1892–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm dreaming of a white riot Just like the one we had March 4 When the creeps took a beating And things started leading To Armed Struggle Against the State We're leading now toward armed struggle With every cadre line we write May you learn to struggle and fight Or the blacks will off you 'Cuz you're white”
Joseph Tommasi (1951–1975) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: White Riot", a song to the tune of White Christmas, quoted in Cordova 1975. Seemingly a racist parody of the Weatherman song
“I can remember dreaming about solutions to math problems in eighth grade.”
Carolyn Mahoney (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With your departure, that world has ended completely. For a week now, I have been trying not to think that you, dear Alessandro, have gone who knows where. And I confess that I am terrified of dreaming about you. But, my beautiful son, my beautiful boy, I will always welcome you with open arms. [...] I love you. Giampaolo, your dad.”
Giampaolo Pansa (1935–2020) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Marianna Di Piazza "Ti voglio bene mio bel fieu". La lettera di Giampaolo Pansa al figlio Alessandro, ilgiornale.it, 19 November 2017;
“That transition was what I’d been dreaming of since I started athletics—that was the validation of the potential I didn’t see growing up.”
Letsile Tebogo (born 2003) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think women’s rugby is definitely growing in South Africa, and there will be light at the end of the tunnel at the end of the day, so keep on dreaming big.”
Byrhandré Dolf (born 2003) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thus, at a time when some countries in the North are dreaming up schemes to build physical walls to separate neighbours and raising barbed wire fences to keep people out, we are standing in a small village in rural Southern Africa to celebrate the construction of a road and bridge that connects communities and opens up opportunities for people”
Dipuo Peters (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Excited is an understatement for me, I still pinch myself now and then just to make sure that I am not dreaming.”
Bongeka Gamede (born 1999) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bongeka Gamede over the moon about Denmark move SABC Sport (8 November 2024)
“We’re not done yet. We believe we can go all the way. Ghana deserves this — our fans, our families, and every little girl dreaming of wearing this jersey one day.”
Grace Asantewaa (born 2000) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: It’s Every Child’s Dream” – Grace Asantewaa Beams as Black Queens Reach WAFCON Semifinals SSTV Gh (21 July 2025)
“Every day I wake up and it feels like I’m still dreaming.”
Jennifer Cudjoe (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Be disruptors for good! The status quo is not okay. The system is broken. We need to keep asking the hard questions. And if dreaming is free, we should also be free to ask questions!”
Jessica Soho (born 1964) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Source: 2025 UPD Pangkalahatang Pagtatapos: Mensahe ni Bb. Maria Jessica A. Soho para sa mga Nagsipagtapos University of the Philippines Diliman
“This year is about being braver, dreaming bigger, loving harder, and doing more for the people and passions that matter most”
Alexandra Eala (born 2005) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.rappler.com/people/alex-eala-wta-world-ranking-january-12-2026/
“We Southerners are, of course, a mythological people. Supposed to dwell in moonlight or incandescence, we are in part to blame for our own legendary character. Lost by choice in dreaming of high days gone and big house burned, now we cannot even wish to escape.”
Jonathan W. Daniels (1902–1981) first seen 1938 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Southerner Discovers the South (New York: The Macmillan Co, 1938) ch. 1, p. 1
“By the time he settled in Portugal, Columbus was already dreaming of a great idea. In Porto Santo and Madeira, he gathered clues and signs from which he could deduce that the Atlantic did not plunge into an abyss at all, but rather lapped against other lands to the west.”
Paolo Emilio Taviani (1912–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Telemachus...was sitting disconsolate among the Suitors, dreaming of how his noble father might come back from out of the blue, drive all these gallants pell-mell from the house, and so regain his royal honours and reign over his own once more.”
E. V. Rieu (1887–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I feel very sad now, for we are going through such a period in [our] history when human individuality is being destroyed, and the approaching socialism is totally different from the one I was dreaming of.”
Sergei Yesenin (1895–1925) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About the October Revolution. From a letter, August 1920, as quoted in
“I like to think of my writing as an expression of love for the African people, a commitment to our capacity for justice and liberty, an insistence on dreaming our freedom as an inevitable eventuality. I want to be an incendiary bomb. And I know that stories have that power.”
Ani Kayode Somtochukwu (born 2000) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Discussing the purpose of his writing. Writers Have the Obligation of Imagining the Future That Must Be Achieved, The Republic, 11 May 2025.
“Mobilising Rwandans was not easy. We had spent nearly 30 years in exile, and many had lost hope of ever returning. Some told us, “You’re just dreaming. Why not focus on getting citizenship where you are? And if you can’t, just accept it and move on.” They didn’t believe the effort would lead anywhere.”
Charles Murigande (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I REALLY BELIEVE in dreaming and making things from NOTHING”
Wangechi Mutu (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would love to encourage the youth that there is hope. It doesn’t matter what life throws at you, keep on dreaming. Keep on believing that life is full of surprises, you might struggle today but you might feed a nation tomorrow.”
Vincent Bones wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We listened to music. We listened to news, as well as captivating local dramas that highlighted family conflicts, relationships, love affairs, and daily trials. There was room for dreaming and also in a way radio made us storytellers.”
Neo Matloga (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Writing is absolutely the work of freedom. Not just freedom dreaming but being free.”
Imani Perry (born 1972) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Writing as the Work of Freedom, February 4 2026
“But dreaming about doing what he was doing was too unrealistic.”
Evidence Makgopa (born 2000) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even now, I still feel like I am dreaming. It’s quite weird when people ask to take pictures with me.”
Lyle Foster (born 2000) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am from the South of France, so I grew up dreaming about the Festival and it’s surreal to be actually here. But mostly, I am at Cannes to represent the luxury jewelry house de GRISOGONO for the second year now, and being with them is even a bigger achievement.”
Cindy Bruna (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I also dreamt of being a Springbok even though in those days it was almost impossible to become one. I kept on dreaming and through hard work, persistence, I got the opportunity to play once and I had to keep my position through hard work and determination. I never really had the talent as they say, but I had potential to achieve.”
Chester Williams (1970–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It just felt so surreal that this passion of mine that I’ve been dreaming of, wearing the green and gold, was coming true.”
Chloe Tryon (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.”
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there be, or ever were, one such, It 's past the size of dreaming.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Oh thou, Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, Each like a corpse within its grave, until Thine azure sister of the spring shall blow Her clarion o'er the dreaming earth.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) said by 1822 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.”
Thomas Middleton (1580–1627) said by 1627 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Francis Bacon
“But, ah! if empty dreams so please, Love give me more such nights as these.”
Robert Herrick (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here we are all by day; by night we're hurl'd By dreams, each one into a sev'ral world.”
Robert Herrick (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O Twilight! Spirit that dost render birth To dim enchantments; melting heaven with earth, Leaving on craggy hills and running streams A softness like the atmosphere of dreams.”
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton (1808–1877) first seen 1840 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Winter’s Walk (c. 1840).
“The utopias of a better world and a more just society have to do with words, with the generation of dreams, with imagination, with a very important identity that overcomes languages and is the identity of the human condition, to be able to recognize our own image in every fellow man, in a different age. I believe that the key to our time lies in this respect for diversity.”
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Richer am I than he who owns Great fleets and argosies; I have a share in every ship Won by the inland breeze, To loiter on yon airy road Above the apple-trees. I freight them with my untold dreams; Each bears my own picked crew; And nobler cargoes wait for them Than ever India knew, — My ships that sail into the East Across that outlet blue.”
Lucy Larcom (1824–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If Black people had simply accepted a status of economic and political inferiority, the mob murders would probably have subsided. But because vast numbers of ex-slaves refused to discard their dreams of progress, more than ten thousand lynchings occurred during the three decades following the war.”
Angela Davis (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile Is mirrored on my dreams, Like evening's sunset-girded isle Upon her shadowed streams: And o'er my thoughts thy vision floats, Like melody of spring-bird, notes; When the blue halcyon gently laves His plumage in the flashing waves.”
Park Benjamin Sr. (1809–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some reckon time by stars, And some by hours: Some measure days by dreams, And some by flowers: My heart alone records My days and hours.”
Madison Cawein (1865–1914) said by 1914 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is the logic of our times, No subject for immortal verse— That we who lived by honest dreams Defend the bad against the worse.”
Cecil Day-Lewis (1904–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No matter what they say the time has come I'm ready now to start a new beginning With all our hopes and all our dreams And I know the stars will shine for you and for me From the moment you believe.”
“Humanity needs dreams to endure misery, even if just for an instant.A humanidade precisa de sonhos para suportar a miséria, nem que seja por um instante.”
Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even with broken wings Even with shattered dreams I'm still gonna try I'm still gonna fly Even with broken wings I can do anything I found a strength I never knew I had in me With these broken wings.”