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“What is not ephemeral in individual life, if life itself is fleeting like a dream.”
Daniel Salamanca (1869–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's easily said with your gun to my head, no one wants to fight a fighter. If this is a dream then I'll stay out of bed, It's always dark before it gets lighter. I'm not being used again. No I won't be used again. I said I won't be used again. You can't keep a good man down.”
John Miles (1949–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I dream of an Ethiopia, of an Africa that is free of hunger, a world where no mother should bury their child because of hunger or worst still because no one cares.”
Sahle-Work Zewde (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision is merely passing time. But vision with action can change the world.”
Mia Mottley (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My life is forever connected with aviation. I cannot live without the sky. I continue to improve my flying skills on modern domestic aircraft, I dream that, perhaps, I will have to lift a peaceful aircraft into space.”
Ivan Kozhedub (1920–1991) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in his memoirs in 1969, ""Без боя не уйду". Как летчик-ас Кожедуб сбивал вражеские самолеты
“I imagine a reader who, like me, is a bit exasperated with the accumulation of the follies of our times, someone ready for a new way of looking, thinking and being; someone who combines youth and experience, idealism and realism. Someone who isn’t afraid to dream but also is not afraid to roll up their sleeves and participate in the tough magic of life.”
“The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re-dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re-dreamed. Each reality can have it,”
“One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.”
“A dream can be the highest point of a life”
“After a while I came to accept the curse of life. Every day was an entombment. Every day the dream of light faded from our spirits.”
“I wish that I could cry, Fall upon my knees. Find a way to lie 'Bout a home I'll never see.It may sound absurd but don't be naïve Even heroes have the right to bleed. I may be disturbed but won’t you concede Even heroes have the right to dream. And it's not easy to be me.”
Five for Fighting (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sustainable impact that might allow us to dream of a world where philanthropy will only be about the love for people and no longer the need to save people.”
Jeannette Kagame (born 1962) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: , the new times (25 October 2022)
“Love is why we rebuild, striving for success, daring to dream big.”
Jeannette Kagame (born 1962) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Couple’s First Song: A Lifelong Dance KT PRESS (September 15, 2025)
“I had recently gone for a magazine shoot to Antalya, Turkey. From there, I went on a holiday to Istanbul, and it’s the first time I had gone on a trip on my own. I see travelling as a great learning process and my biggest dream is to travel the world.”
Pooja Hegde (born 1990) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Want to explore new place each year: Pooja Hegde" Indian Express. November 14, 2016).
“I love music. My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented !”
Gaspard Ulliel (1984–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Russia may have destroyed our Mriya. But they will never be able to destroy our dream of a strong, free and democratic European state. We shall prevail!”
Dmytro Kuleba (born 1981) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "World's largest plane destroyed in Ukraine" (28 February 2022), CNN Travel
“I’ve already had the chance to play all the characters I wanted to. I do not dream of a role a particular type of film — I am happy to accept the roles that inspire me.”
Bae Doona (born 1979) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Korea to Hollywood, Doona Bae is a Global Sensation" in L'Officiel (10 April 2019)
“When I got my OWSD fellowship, it was an amazing feeling. Before getting the letter, my academic career was a dream, the letter made it possible.”
Nashwa Eassa (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a professional athlete and pressure is a part of every professional sport. It will be a dream come true for me if I could defeat the Chinese on my way to a medal, so if there’s pressure, there’s also incentive.”
Saina Nehwal (born 1990) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Saina Nehwal Interview: Sportskeeda Exclusive" (19 April 2012)
“I am set to give my best. Yes, to win a medal for India in the Olympics is my dream. But I will go step by step; I will give my hundred percent and leave the rest to God.”
Saina Nehwal (born 1990) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Saina Nehwal Interview: Sportskeeda Exclusive" (19 April 2012)
“Thanks to the Belt and Road Initiative, the China-Laos Railway has been completed and put into operation, and the Lao people have finally realized their railway dream”
Thongloun Sisoulith (born 1945) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in How China's growth drives 'growbalization', China Daily, (25 January 2022)
“If God so wills, I will bear fruit. I am a grown up plant of forty years in priesthood service. This is God's plan and His will. I never thought that, at the age of sixty-six, I would be made a bishop. God has fulfilled His own dream in this way. That's how I take it.”
Stephen Antony Pillai (born 1952) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Priority Is Spiritual Awakening (28 February 2019) Light of truth
“Having a dream it keeps reminding you why you started it in the first place”
Nicole Gaelebale (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“AOC embodies the kind of leadership we dream of: brilliant, courageous, and gifted, with a quick mind and an understanding of our history and the political moment from which she emerged. And most importantly to me, she believes in environmental justice.”
Elizabeth Yeampierre wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My advice would be to not let anyone tell you or anyone stereotype, tell you that you can't pursue your career and dream in STEM. Really just practice, practice, practice, because that's what will eventually lead to success.”
Deborah Berebichez (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have the audacity to dream, there is nothing that I believe is impossible for me to achieve with enough patience, time, hard work and determination.”
Lebogang Maruapula wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, to learn more, to do more and become more, then you are a leader.”
Tumie Ramsden first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tumie Ramsden US President's Forum with Young African Leaders(August 8th, 2010) Retrieved July 30th, 2022.
“My dream is to lead. I speak fluent Italian, English and Spanish and I am studying Russian. From the point of view of the feelings and the path, I was burned because I went out there with a person who was not interested in me. I would be afraid of relapsing again. I don't know if I would be able to trust another person again but above all I would no longer want to have a television relationship.”
Soleil Sorge (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is all we leave when we are gone live on In every heart of those we touch In every dream that means so much Yes I believe that all of us live on.”
Olivia Newton-John (1948–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A dream fulfilled is often disappointing. It has turned out that we are not capable of bearing this enormity of information, which instead of uniting, generalizing and freeing, has differentiated, divided, enclosed in individual little bubbles, creating a multitude of stories that are incompatible with one another or even openly hostile toward each other, mutually antagonizing.”
Olga Tokarczuk (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No structure is too grand, or task too difficult. No dream is out of reach.”
Alice Eduardo (born 1965) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meet ‘woman of steel’ Alice Eduardo" in Manila Standard (24 November 2024)
“For him scholarship had been a refuge: he valued literature not as a reflection of reality, but as an escape route from it. … [In literature] nature was methodised, the poet was always a prince, and the scholar found himself elevated to an all-powerful magus reducing the randomness of events to a dream of traditional order.”
David Nokes (1948–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears. America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea.”
Katharine Lee Bates (1859–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By the promise of noon"s blue splendor in the dawn"s first silvery gleam, By the song of the sea that compelleth the path of the rockcleaving stream, I summon thee, recreant dreamer, to rise and follow thy dream.”
Katharine Lee Bates (1859–1929) said by 1929 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The relationship between mother and daughter stands in the center of what I fear most in our culture. Heal that wound and we change the world. A revolution capable of healing our wounds. If we're the ones who can imagine it, if we're the ones who dream about it, if we're the ones who need it most, then no one else can do it. We're the ones.”
Aurora Levins Morales (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know I have dreamt this dream: Jews and Arabs moving in unison, dispossessing the warriors, building new villages on the sites of the old, changing the face of the land, the shape of history, the look of the future.”
Aurora Levins Morales (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This...is what I dream of. Multitudes of women, all kinds of women, arguing, disagreeing, fighting it out, lifting our thoughts up out of the fields and cities and prisons and homes, not to carry the sky but to fill it, making our own wind, strong enough to topple towers and pollinate a whole new world into bloom. ("My Feminism")”
Aurora Levins Morales (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Palestinians are all haunted. We’re haunted by what used to be, what could have been, what we dream could be, what we would prefer for all the people who are living there right in the heart of it—and have everything at stake. (2024)”
Naomi Shihab Nye (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He will remember his first sight of the open sea: a gray wrinkled vastness, like the residue of a dream.”
Hilary Mantel (1952–2022) first seen 1500 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Part 1, Section 1, “Across the Narrow Sea. 1500” (p. 15)
“how we are marginalized, how whole communities are sedated with the new slavery of drugs, how we are easily offered various forms of addiction to cope with our situations, anything from drugs, alcohol, religion, sex, television, food, money-take your pick. A poet named Safiya said, "We all are addicted to something." But we still manage to dream in spite of it.”
Sandra María Esteves (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The moment when they announced it, it was literally a blackout. I couldn’t start jumping or crying or screaming, nothing, a blackout for a second. And then 30 minutes later, I realized it is actually happening, is this possible to happen? It’s still like a dream, it’s still like a fairytale, and it’s something I will always be grateful for Sacha [Baron Cohen] and this part that I have been given.”
Maria Bakalova (born 1996) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Swithinbank] had dreamed of this show, and here was the dream come true, because he had made it come. What had I ever dreamed of except to be tucked in under a warm blanket of safety? And what had I ever done to make even that true? Nothing.”
Howard Spring (1889–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My dream is to be the coach and I think I am on the right track. I also want to encourage young females to play football as it is the next big thing.”
Bonang Otlhagile (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“However my dream collaboration is with Oliver Mtukudzi. He is my favourite musician from here.”
Magdeline Lesolebe (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I started Dare to Dream to give back to the community and to try and open up their eyes to opportunities that they wouldn’t otherwise be exposed to”
Kgomotso Phatsima wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Therefore, seven years ago I started Dare to Dream, to give the upcoming generation a chance I never had!”
Kgomotso Phatsima first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Born to Fly: Captain Kgomotso Phatsimaː 25 September 2020, The weight she carries, retrieved 29 November 2022.
“Working towards fulfilling your dream is tough.”
Jessica Nkosi (born 1990) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cheat sheet: Everything you need to know about Jessica Nkosi" (23 December 2016) by Bridgette Matjuda
“I can't say it was tough because I have been so blessed. Honestly, my tough times would be a dream to someone else. I never will look at it as something that was too hard for me or really tough because throughout that time, I was still enjoying my life and still in the NFL.”
Geno Smith (born 1990) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During weekly media session, when asked on if his time as a backup quarterback frustrated him (December 8, 2022).
“One more long happy Sunday had joined the pale golden Sundays that are gone. Better — to us at any rate — than Sundays now. Though these latter-day Sundays may be real enough, to us they are but the illusion and the bygone days the reality. There is always in our minds the hope that we may find again those golden unhastening days and wake up and dream.”
Angela Thirkell (1890–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I tried what all children try in their desire to be noticed: tantrums and every sort of illness I could dream up. But since these were not successful, I found myself obliged to seek other means. And so it was that I came to write and publish my first verses. At ten years of age I was already perfectly installed as a poetess.”
Rosario Castellanos (1924–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source