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“Rwanda has successfully that it is one of the safest countries for refugees as it has been attested by those who were evacuated from Libya, some of whom viewed being relocated to Rwanda as a dream come true, compared to the situation they were in before.”
Yolande Makolo first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: RWANDA REMAINS A SAFE PLACE FOR REFUGEES, ASYLUM SEEKERS- GOV’T SPOKESPERSON KT Press (November 21, 2023)
“LPGA is my dream, and it’s the highest stage for professional golfers. My goal is to put out my best performance to show myself and to show the people that believe in me that I'm able to be performing well on that stage, I will be also very proud because I'm Chinese player and I will be proud to follow their steps. To be on Tour with Ruoning and Xiyu would be really exciting for me.”
Miranda Wang (born 1995) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: CHINESE SUCCESS ON LPGA TOUR INSPIRING PLAYERS AT THE EPSON TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP Epson Tour (5 October 2023)
“Maybe somebody always wanted to run a 10K but got cancer, and now they need the motivation to not let that dream fade,” she said. “It’s not about the setback, it’s about the comeback.”
Robyn Benincasa first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Helping women recover through athletic adventures CNN Heroes (April 21, 2015)
“It was like a dream, that in my lifetime we are going back to Namibia. My eldest daughter was born in a refugee camp,”
Bience Gawanas (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s not an easy road. You will get people who will disappoint you, but you need to stay focused on your dream. We all learn and become better through our mistakes and challenges.”
Lilly Alfonso wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The path to entrepreneurial success is challenging — marked by disappointments and setbacks — but focusing on your dream is crucial. Embrace mistakes and challenges as opportunities for growth and improvement; they are stepping stones toward your ultimate goals.”
Lilly Alfonso wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m a Tar Heel born and bred," Smith Lyon said in a press release. "It was always my dream to play at North Carolina, and now to be head coach feels like I’m coming home.”
Megan Smith (born 1964) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: UNC softball announces former player Megan Smith Lyon as new head coach The Daily Tar Heel (June 15, 2023)
“We stand united as a part of the football family, driven by passion and a pursuit of excellence. Challenges may come, but they are also opportunities to demonstrate our strength. We are different teams with different visions, but we are also a family, bound by a common love for the game and a shared dream of success.”
Gifty Oware-Mensah (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Access to the American dream was not an option in their community”
Michole Briana White (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There wasn’t a task that seemed impossible to her. Laura had the ability to dream big, she would scale things in her mind quickly, and I think that that’s one of the jobs of a producer, is to have a hope for a future. She set out to beat cancer, and not ‘her cancer’, but ‘Cancer’.”
Laura Ziskin (1950–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stand Up to Cancer 2012 Laura Ziskin Tribute - Archive
“I don’t think Laura approached anything in her life, be it producing movies, or battling cancer, or motherhood, or friendship in a traditional way. Like every great hero, she had a vision and she set us into motion and now its up to us to continue moving forward to achieve her dream. (of beating cancer)”
Laura Ziskin (1950–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stand Up to Cancer 2012 Laura Ziskin Tribute - Archive
“Power changes its appearance but not its reality. Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia – that is, nowhere.”
Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Global economic growth will soon clash with physical barriers. It is physically impossible to fulfil the ideal of progressivism: the spread of techno-scientific consumer culture to ten billion people. When this dream has faded, another will emerge.”
Guillaume Faye (1949–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a quasi-certainty that this persistent belief in progress and modernity, concepts which the political classes of the West are always jabbering about and which are totally obsolete, will never see its objectives occur. The dream will shatter into pieces. Constraining forces, a physical wall, makes this ideology resemble a mass of intellectual stupefaction and belief in miracles.”
Guillaume Faye (1949–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A long dream has come true.”
Gregory Karotemprel (1933–2026) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thousands Welcome First Syro-Malabar Diocese in the United States (3 July 2001) Union of Asian Catholic News
“Between waking and being awake there is a moment full of doubt and dream, when you struggle to remember what the place and when the time and whether you really are. A peevish moment of wonderment as to where the real world lies. (chapter 1)”
Keri Hulme (1947–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She saw his dreamer eyes; the dream was love, togetherness, two people together. She saw his whole dreamer self, and she called his name. (p297)”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was night in her lovely Ballroom, where a dream was completely safe. (book 4 chapter 3)”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They rear’d their lodges in the wilderness, Or built them cells beside the shadowy sea, And there they dwelt with angels, like a dream! So they unroll’d the Volume of the Book And fill’d the fields of the Evangelist With thoughts as sweet as flowers.”
Robert Hawker (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These programs are called "daemons"... You never see them, and yet they're constantly doing something for you, like the angel in the medieval Angelo Loci... we should slowly let go of that old dream of sociologists, the one that says that society is by nature made up only of human beings. Today — and tomorrow — the term "society" should include people and programs.”
Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to be remembered for serving my community, whether it is through providing quality surgical care or helping mentor the next generation of surgeons. Everything about the match is special. It will be a dream come true.”
Nancy Abu-Bonsrah first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dr. Nancy Abu-Bonsrah: The first Black woman to graduate from the Johns Hopkins neurosurgery program, Ghana Web, 6 July 2024.
“Yes! That's what all our talk about a decent world has been... just so much bullshit.""We did say it was still only a dream.""And a bloody useless one at that. Life's a fuck-up and it's never going to change.”
Athol Fugard (1932–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be one of those finalists on that floor is like... like being in a dream world in which accidents don't happen.”
Athol Fugard (1932–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Today I feel like my best sex life is being lived in my imagination. I’m a lot more free in my mind than I am in my body. I dream and fantasise a lot but I don’t necessarily create the kind of experiences that would allow me to enjoy the feelings that I think about.”
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have at least the whole of my life to answer a question: Who am I? And who is the other? A gust of wind at dawn? A motionless landscape? A trembling leaf? A coil of white smoke above a mountain? I write all these words and I hear the wind, not outside, but inside my head. A strong wind, it rattles the shutters through which I enter the dream”
Tahar Ben Jelloun (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the centre of the city where the alleys narrow at points to the width of a man’s shoulder blades, you can walk as if in a dream, never certain of what might appear after the next bend:...”
Nadifa Mohamed (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cloud travel is well and good when you have mastered the landings. I never have. I must live, not dream about living.”
Binyavanga Wainaina (1971–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I never imagined I could feel such emotions as the ones I was experiencing then. It was like a dream, one I had never had before.”
Sally Singhateh (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The moment the metal box speaks her name, she knows it’s happened. She’s been in a tense, headachy mood all day, almost like she had a warning in a dream but can’t remember what it is. Some sign or image, just under the surface. Trouble down below. Fire underground.”
Damon Galgut (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Ockie] imagines himself one of his Voortrekker ancestors, rolling slowly into the interior in an ox-wagon. Yes, there are those who dream in predictable ways. Ockie the brave pioneer, floating over the plain. A brown-and-yellow countryside passes outside, dry except for where a river cuts through it, under a huge Highveld sky.”
Damon Galgut (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But tomorrow's a dream away and today has turned to dust. Your silver tongue has turned to clay and your golden rule to rust. If that's the way that you want it well that's the way I want it more, Cause there'll be one less set of footprints on your floor in the mornin'. Oh there'll be one less set of footsteps on your floor in the mornin'.”
Jim Croce (1943–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like the pine trees lining the winding road, I've got a name, I've got a name. Like the singin' bird and the croakin' toad, I've got a name, I've got a name.And I carry it with me like my daddy did, But I'm livin' the dream that he kept hid.Movin' me down the highway, rollin' me down the highway, Movin' ahead so life won't pass me by.”
Jim Croce (1943–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life has only one excuse: the dream.”
Charles Picart Le Doux (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their mighty honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.”
Charles Tennyson Turner (1808–1879) first seen 1868 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Summer Night in the Beehive" in Small Tableaux (1868)
“I felt anxious, the way you do when a dream seems too real and at the same time something intangible, imperceptible, tells you that whatever makes you feel happy or sad can never be reality. (chapter 7 p156)”
Anna Seghers (1900–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It sounded like a dream. I’d always cherished such a notion: doers conquering parasites and taking over! At the time I left America/Earth—well, skip it. You don’t need me to tell you that those of us who worked and paid taxes were slaves to those who didn’t.”
Andrew J. Offutt (1934–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My youth longs for the calendas, the coral necklaces and images of sun-filled fields, where there are no bent backs, no overseers, no children dying. My youth wants to erase the stories of The Infamous Rosalie and barracoons, to lift off this weight that clouds my vision whenever I try to dream. (p64)”
Évelyne Trouillot (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Though ballet is my passion and dream, it would not be entirely fair to say that it saved me, without acknowledging the human beings who played major roles in saving my life. Some of these people I loved; others I detested. But if it were not for them, I would not have a life, let alone be a ballerina.”
Michaela DePrince (1995–2024) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How I found hope in a ballet shoe The Guardian (24 June 2015)
“It’s about leadership. It’s not the party. Forget about party — parties are irrelevant. It’s about the man at the top,” he said. “President Tinubu has shown that he can lead Nigeria, he can fix the economy, he can put together a dream team.”
Ben Murray-Bruce (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My Hollywood dream started when I was young … I was a huge fan of Steve McQueen, Tom Cruise, Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergmann and all these giants even though it was difficult for me to get into this business.”
Soufiane El Khalidy (born 1987) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Diaspo #55: Soufiane El Khalidy, a multitalented filmmaker and actor in Hollywood Yabiladi news portal (01 September 2018)
“My message is simple: dream, prepare, build, remain committed, and don’t forget to encourage and mentor others. This is the formula for success, whether you are a man or a woman. The world is for the strong, the bold, the creative and the committed. Keep in mind that everything is possible.”
Jewel Taylor (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The healthcare sector definitely needs reforms. I dream of a form of 'Obamacare' for Senegalese people and I think it's doable.”
Anta Babacar Ngom (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have several books on my bedside table, including A Dream Fulfilled: Memoirs of an African Diplomat by Thandi Lujabe-Rankoe, Sleep In Peace Tonight by James MacManus, The Many Houses of Exile by Richard Jurgens, and the Bible.”
Maureen Thelma Watson (1925–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Something I tried to hold onto, to touch if only for a moment, but it slipped away from me like the air, like an illusion, or a dream that floats away and is lost. I wept in my sleep as though it was something I was losing now; a loss I was experiencing for the first time, and not something I had lost a long time ago.”
Nawal El Tatawy (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“AIU to me was simply a whale of a tale! It was the second most important thing I ever discovered since birth. When all seemed lost for a career dream, I obtained solace and succor from the institution that respects the uniqueness and specialty of every human created here on earth.”
Gloria Amon Nikoi (1927–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Black parents must show their children how to dream, want a joyful happy successful life and how to achieve it”
Dinah Abrahamson (1954–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My dream is to use Seven Advanced Academy to build a community of standard experts from Silicon Valley first in my country, Cameroon, and then in Africa. The world-class Tech engineering community will attract the Top Multinationals to invest in our country in no time, and that’s essentially what is missing for the time being.”
Estelle yomba (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“and the strategy which we dream of is to”
Shirley Gbujama (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I return all glory and adoration to Almighty God, I pray for His guidance in actualising the Kwara of our dream.”
Joana Nnazua Kolo (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“my dream is my target”
King Flekky (born 2006) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source