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“My dream is to save this youth and reach out to them. The world is beautiful, we must make it even more beautiful!”
Latifa Ibn Ziaten (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hope Dream School will have a positive impact on the children on the show and that it will help parents and teenagers who watch the show to communicate better”
Vuyelwa Booi (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being a model is to inspire, to make people dream and to promote diversity at the same time,”
Malika Louback (born 1995) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I also am fighting for the bigger dream of being an international force”
Enhle-Mbali Mlotshwa (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’ve always been (for a lack of a better word) a showman, and my interests in filmmaking peaked past performance because I always wanted to know what everyone else’s role in the ecosystem was; and I’ve always been fascinated by team work making the dream work”
Nozipho Nkelemba (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All I regret is that I am being prevented from achieving my dream”
Houleye Ba (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Personally speaking, yes. I performed my first tour of Cameroon and that was an absolutely extraordinary experience. I actually got to reach out and touch my Cameroonian fans. It had been a personal dream of mine for a long time you know, as a singer who comes from Africa to go back there and play bikutsi, my native music”
Sally Nyolo (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On one fateful night, I had a dream where I saw a woman wearing a court robe and a wig standing before me and I heard a voice I believe was God’s saying to me, this woman would want to sign you to her record label but don’t oblige her.”
Cynthia Morgan (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The message was brief and straight to the point. When I woke up I shared the dream with my mum. We forgot about it. But in less than a year, one of my ex managers called to tell me about one lady who was interested in working with me after he had sent my songs to her.”
Cynthia Morgan (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To any struggling musicians, as long as your dream is music, don’t let anyone take advantage of you because they promise to promote you. There is always that time for you to shine and eventually make it there.”
Winnie Nwagi (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t have enough resources right now—and they aren’t just financial. But it’s my biggest dream to cross borders.”
Lydia Jazmine (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I travelled in the most remote areas in Morocco, I asked the youth about their dream and the answer was to leave the countryside”
Soumaya Naamane Guessous (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(At 16) There was no more money, so I went to the factory to be a welder. My dream? Playing soccer.”
Maurizio Landini (born 1961) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Landini: «Avevo 16 anni, una mattina mi son svegliato… e i miei genitori dissero “devi lasciare la scuola”» (May 9, 2025)
“I shall go smiling Into the great beyond, Looking upon the silence as release, Looking upon the darkness as a dream, Looking upon the deep unknown as rest.”
Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff (1886–1967) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mortality", in The New York Times, vol. 78, no. 25,915 (January 6, 1929), sec. 3, p. 1
“(For Christian referred to the Virgin Mary and Jesus) Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel. Curds and honey He shall eat, that He may know to refuse the evil and choose the good. For before the Child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you dream.”
Ahaz (763–727 BC) said by 727 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's my dream to have three glasses of wine in front of me at all times.”
Stassi Schroeder (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t dream. I don’t have nightmares. I’m gifted in that I can lie down and sleep within a minute anywhere I am, any time of day.”
Chuck Yeager (1923–2020) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Life Advice from Chuck Yeager" (2009)
“Having a subversive country station was always a dream of mine”
Jeremy D. Lansman (1942–2024) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: King, Peter H. (June 18, 1978). "Another way: KFAT is for KFATheads". The San Francisco Examiner. San Francisco, California.
“Your flag and my flag— And how it flies to-day! In your land and my land, And half the world away! Rose-red and blood-red, The stripes forever gleam; Snow-white and soul-white— The good forefathers' dream; Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to shine aright— The gloried guidon of the day, a shelter through the night.”
Wilbur D. Nesbit (1871–1927) first seen 1904 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Song for Flag Day", st. 1. The Trail to Boyland, and Other Poems (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1904), p. 96
“This is a city of the muses. For poets, painters and composers. This is the artists' enclave. This is Venice and Florence waiting to be explored, and I dream it still.”
Brian Keenan (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's not like I've given up hope; I'm hopeful. Maybe one day, the country will be better. Let's all believe in that pipe dream. It's done, it's over.”
Basketmouth (born 1978) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: They say 'E go better,' it's getting worse - Basketmouth on Nigeria's economy. 3 October 2024, Pulse News
“Islam is going through a crisis by contact with the Western world, and under the influence of Christianity many of the enlightened Turks dream of reforming its morals. On the other hand there has always been a certain opposition between the Arabs, who pretend to represent the pure Mussulman tradition, and the Turks.”
Louis Bréhier (1868–1951) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Turkish Empire (1913) Catholic Encyclopedia
“For the past decade I have been a resident of Northern Pend Oreille County. When I first arrived in Metaline Falls, I had only twenty-five dollars to my name, a desire to work hard and be left alone, and the dream of someday acquiring my own small farm.”
Robert Jay Mathews (1953–1984) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the editor, December 1984, included in Kaplan 2000
“Because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?”
R. D. Blackmore (1825–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the intervening air. It gives the hills the bloom that peaches have, or grapes in the dew.”
Stella Benson (1892–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“True to a vision, steadfast to a dream.”
Stephen Phillips (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With sward of parsley and of violet, And poplars shivering in a silvery dream, And smell of cedar sawn, and sandal-wood, And these low-crying birds that haunt the deep.”
Stephen Phillips (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Four of us together dwell— Two from Heaven and two from Hell; Four of us under the selfsame sky— Love and Death and a Dream and I.”
Samuel Hoffenstein (1890–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The lusts and desires of the flesh, or the old man, are countless, but they are a dream, a vanity, a phantom, nothing.”
John of Kronstadt (1829–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lovely land of Palestina! he thy shores will never see, But, his dream fulfilled, he follows Him who walked in Galilee.”
Hezekiah Butterworth (1839–1905) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lincoln's Last Dream", st. 8. The Christian Union, vol. 29, no. 16 (April 17, 1884) p. 365. Also in Poems for Christmas, Easter, and New Year's (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1885) p. 106
“Access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American Dream.”
Scott Bessent (born 1962) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bessent defends Trump tariffs: ‘Access to cheap goods’ is not the ‘American Dream’" POLITICO (March 6, 2025)
“Never in the streets, 'cause I never leave my home. If you wanna live a dream I ain't coming, bitch, I told you.”
Lil Peep (1996–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now”
Diane Gilpin first seen 1905 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to Goethe by popular British novelist Marie Corelli in her essay "The Spirit of Work" as published in The Queen's Christmas carol : an anthology of poems, stories, essays, drawings and music / by British auth…
Also quoted by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (misattributed)
“I became disillusioned with teaching and wanted to leave, I looked back at my dream subjects and combined them with my great respect, love and affinity with water (my star sign Scorpio is a water sign) so it had to be plumbing.”
Hattie Hasan wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had to stamp cheques every day; thousands of them. I’d get to 1,500 stamps, and then I'd forget the number, and I have to start it all again. It just wasn't my dream of how I would spend my life”
Leigh-Ann Russell (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes you have to get into that mindset and dream like a kid,put you into a better goal setting stage for your business.”
Mikaila Ulmer (born 2004) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I must say I never thought about it as a child, you know. I was thinking more about becoming a scientist. That was my dream as a child. I wanted to be an astronaut.”
Natacha Muziramakenga (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've gotten a piece of the American dream, but now I'm running to make sure others have that same opportunity and that in a nutshell is why I'm running for Congress.”
Nanette Barragán (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Talk about opportunity, we all just want a chance, a shot at the American Dream and how do you get there? In school. Education.”
Nanette Barragán (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Team work makes the dream work, so choose the right collaborators.”
Victoria Thomas wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'd likely be a tenured professor somewhere teaching either creative writing or history. I would also like to become fluent again in French. In my spare time, I'd make beautiful stained glass pieces. I have toyed with pursuing this after I retire. For now, I am very content to have returned to my "sweet spot," which most definitely is manufacturing. I have found my dream job at Boeing.”
Gena C. Lovett wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God first. Commitment to service, stay focus, pursue your dream.”
Rotimi Amaechi (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My dream bouquet would have to consist of Jude the Obscure roses and David Austin roses – they have a wonderful apricot smell”
Jane Percy, Duchess of Northumberland (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Externally: Last year I bought a house on my own. I never thought I would be a homeowner and I am so proud of myself for not letting my doubts keep me from realizing this dream. I also co-founded a publishing company, 619 Wreath LLC, with my friend Miloš Savić… and we wrote a book titled “Radical Grace: Essays and Conversations on Teaching”. These are things that make me feel like such a grown-up!”
Candice Renee Price wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The teenager does not know who they have been and fears that they will not be able to become what they dream of being: self-awareness is the result of a long, complex confrontation between precarious stages of one's identity, and the group allows one to reflect oneself in others, to learn to recognize oneself and others.”
Paolo Crepet (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is a god and Rati the dark his bride; But once I found their child and she was fairer, That could so shine. And we were each to each Wonderful and a presence not yet felt In any dream.”
Bilhana (born 1000) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Chauraspanchasika, st. 30 (tr. E. Powys Mathers, 1921)
“We must educate ourselves to recognize our inner resonances when we meet others, work, and dream.”
Eugenio Borgna (1930–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unlike joy, which is a momentary experience, localized in specific times and reasons, happiness perhaps has a more general meaning. Aristotle warned that a life can only be judged happy after it has been fulfilled. I would also use another formula, which I like very much and which says: happy is that life which realizes in maturity (or old age) the dream of youth.”
Carlo Sini (born 1933) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ivo Nardi, Riflessioni sul Senso della Vita- Intervista a Carlo Sini, Riflessioni.it, June 2012
“I wanted to be a ballerina, now I dream of an Olympic medal … I have great potential and I don’t feel pressure.”
Cristina Chirichella (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would never have imagined playing for Juventus; I had a poster of Del Piero in my room, and today to that little girl inside me I would say: dream, sooner or later it comes true.”
Cristiana Girelli (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source