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“Firstly, I am showing that it's possible to every poor, unappreciated and broken young girl out there in our country. It's possible to dream and chase after your dreams, it's possible to be heard, it's possible to achieve and break the mould and be something”
Fifi Cooper (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is absolutely wild, it's insane. This is for the little black girl sitting at home needing their dreams to be validated. This is it, this is our moment, this is our time! I’m eternally grateful. Little me is happy to have fulfilled my childhood dream”
Nomvelo Makhanya (born 1996) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: It’s our time, says Safta award winner Nomvelo Makhanya,Sep 4, 2022,By Thabo Makwakwa
“He went in search of that honored kinsman with God knows how heavy a weight of anguish at his heart, for he knew he was about to shatter the day-dream of his uncle's life; and he knew that our dreams are none the less terrible to lose, because they have never been the realities for which we have mistaken them.”
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For women there are no glass ceilings. Women need to dream for themselves. The empowerment and support has to come from home. From family, you need to be empowered to pursue your dreams than what companies do. I am a big believer that women empowerment has to begin at home”
Falguni Nayar (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think they need to pursue their dreams," Epps said. "You may not make it to space, but will you make it way further than if you had never pursued that dream.”
Jeanette Epps (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want girls to know their dreams are valid, no matter where they start. I was once a young girl with a dream too and it took years of work, setbacks and faith to get there.”
Zintle Mpupha (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Growing up in a small town, I never had small dreams. Only big targets and destinations! I always dream big.”
Lelona Daweti (born 1999) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If this is something that you’re very passionate about and you feel strongly for, I would have to say that you should continue to dream big, hold on to those dreams but have the patience to work hard for them”
Anne Curtis (born 1985) first seen 1114 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/showbiz/celebrities/2025/9/3/anne-curtis-on-her-long-showbiz-career-i-ve-never-had-a-squeaky-clean-image-1114
“My recurring dream, for many years now, is of a giant wave about to crash onto a beach where I am with a group of friends. I have premonitory dreams.”
Romina Power (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I belong to a quite big yet happy family. We are not rich so we help one another to sustain our needs and reach our dreams. I grew up with strict parents. We must follow household rules as much as we can. They also keep on reminding us to dream big, work hard for it without compromising our good values, and consider the community, the environment, and the Bible in all our actions.”
Angelee delos Reyes (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We need to dream together to shape a better future together. Without dreams, we can’t imagine what is coming next and how we want to influence it. Together we never forget who we are”
Joël Andrianomearisoa (born 1977) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview: Malagasy Artist Joël Andrianomearisoa On The Power Of Collective Dreaming 8 December 2021
“Everything that you see in real life is conjured up from a dream or an idea, hence my theory that we are all kind of living in different peoples’ dreams.”
Abba Makama first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Abba T. Makama, Senses of Cinema, 2019.
“Dare to dream - it is free, and believe in those dreams”
Sungi Mlengeya (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every player dreams to be at the World Cup. It would be a dream come true for me.”
Anthony Laffor (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The good thing about the Nedbank Cup is that it’s a cup of dreams and I've told my teammates they must dream.”
Sifiso Myeni (born 1988) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dream big, Myeni tells team mates, September 2020, IOL by Mihlali Baleka
“It is a dream to watch. He plays some shots that I could only have in my wildest dreams”
Ryan Rickelton (born 1996) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why do we dream in our sleep if we have no soul? and, if we have one, how is it that dreams are so incoherent and extravagant?”
Voltaire (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“And if she asks you why, You can tell her that I told you That I'm tired of castles in the air. I've got a dream I want the world to share, And castle walls just lead me to despair.Hills of forest green where the mountains touch the sky, A dream come true, I'll live there till I die. I'm asking you to say my last goodbye. The love we knew ain't worth another try.”
Don McLean (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I walked beside the evening sea And dreamed a dream that could not be; The waves that plunged along the shore Said only: "Dreamer, dream no more!”
George William Curtis (1824–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I woke up tomorrow morning and it was just a dream, it would be the best dream I've ever had, and I would be ― I would not be happy to be waking up! [laughter]”
Leona Lewis (born 1985) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Xtra Factor: Winner's Story 2006
“Across the silent stream Where the dream-shadows go, From the dim blue Hill of Dream I have heard the west wind blow.”
William Sharp (writer) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the Hills of Dream, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty. Was thy dream then a shadowy lie? Toil on, poor heart, unceasingly; And thou shalt find thy dream to be A truth and noonday light to thee.”
Ellen Sturgis Hooper (1812–1848) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Life a Duty, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Straight is the line of Duty, / Curved is the line of Beauty, / Follow the straight line, thou hall see / The curved line ever follow t…
“Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible.”
Michael Phelps (born 1985) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Upon winning his seventh straight Gold medal and having set his seventh straight Olympic record in as many events in the 2008 Olympic Games, 16 August 2008. (Source: )
“The whole world is a dream; even this (the waking state) is a dream … What you dreamt last night does not exist now.”
Sarada Devi (1853–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In sorrow there is no rhyme. Dream the kind of a life that you will find The kind of love that lasts forever. Dream the kind of a life that you will find The kind of love that lasts forever. In heaven there is no time.”
Becky Stark (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack.”
Gao Xingjian (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“‘The question,’ she replied, ‘is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what' you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and "how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.’”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At the age of eight, my dream was to become a world champion; and now I've achieved that title. I've achieved it not only for myself, but achieved it for the British people and also the Pakistani community - and all the Muslims in the country. It's a great feeling, a dream come true for me and Insha'Allah in the future, I want to achieve more things like this.”
Amir Khan (boxer) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with GEO News. (August 2009)
“I’m the type of person that likes to dream big, and I’ve often found that every great journey begins with a dream”
Joseph Pisani (born 1971) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Radio Interview, Radio Osttirol, March 22, 2008, by Werner Gatterer
“Here we are folks The dream we all dream of Boy versus girl in the World Series of love Tell me, have U got the look?”
Prince (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So what do you do when your dream dies? When your dream dies, you give it up.”
Vernor Vinge (1944–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had a dream I had an awesome dream: People in the park playing games in the dark. And what they played was a masquerade. And from behind of walls of doubt a voice was crying out.Say you, say me. Say it for always, that's the way it should be. Say you, say me. Say it together, naturally.”
Lionel Richie (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou wilt draw nigh! Father — it is no dream that Thou art near — No dream that, in my sin and misery, I may look up to Thee,— May hide beneath the shadow of Thy wings, From all the restlessness of outward things, And from my own heart's self-accusing fears — For Thou art nigh.”
Hetty Bowman (1838–1872) said by 1872 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 432.
“And I dream in the morning that she brings me water And I dream in the evening that she brings me wine Just a poor man's daughter from Puerta Piñasco South of the border, in old Mexico.”
Hoyt Axton (1938–1999) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Evangelina" on Fearless (1976) · Stage performance by Axton
“The Dream obsessed him ... but what was it? Was it Horatio Alger, rags to riches, the idea that you could start with nothing and end up rolling naked in stacks of hundreds? Or was it a dream of freedom? Personal freedom...or the concept of freedom that the founders brought into the whole world?”
William McKeen (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a Dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And You are but a Thought — a vagrant Thought, a useless Thought, a homeless Thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the first place, in 1950, I had a 'cosmic dream' in which I saw this image in colour and which in my dream represented the 'nucleus of the atom.' This nucleus later took on a metaphysical sense; I considered it 'the very unity of the universe,' the Christ!”
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: inscription, 1950; on the bottom of his studies for the painting 'Christ of Saint John of the Cross'; as quotes by Robert Descharnes, Dalí. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003.
“To leave behind Earth and air and gravity is an ancient dream of humanity. For these seven, it was a dream fulfilled. Each of these astronauts had the daring and discipline required of their calling. Each of them knew that great endeavors are inseparable from great risks. And each of them accepted those risks willingly, even joyfully, in the cause of discovery.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Feel your hair come tumbling down Feel your feet start kissing the ground Feel your arms are opening out And see your eyes are lifted to God With no words, with no song I'm gonna dance the dream And make the dream come true...”
Kate Bush (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had a dream, which was not all a dream.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) first seen 1816 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Darkness, line 1 (1816).
“Dear love, for nothing less than thee Would I have broke this happy dream, It was a theme For reason, much too strong for fantasy, Therefore thou waked’st me wisely; yet My dream thou brok’st not, but continued’st it.”
John Donne (1572–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As when, upon a tranced summer-night, Those green-rob'd senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir, Save from one gradual solitary gust Which comes upon the silence, and dies off, As if the ebbing air had but one wave.”
John Keats (1795–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities.”
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.”
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are a thousand fanciful things Linked round the young heart's imaginings. In its first love-dream, a leaf or a flower Is gifted then with a spell and a power: A shade is an omen, a dream is a sign, From which the maiden can well divine Passion's whole history.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) said by 1838 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh never another dream can be Like that early dream of ours, When the fairy Hope lay down to sleep, Like a child, among the flowers.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) said by 1838 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Alas, the strange varieties or life ! We live 'mid perils and pleasures, like Characters 'graven on the sand, or hues Colouring the rainbow. Wild as a sick fancy And changeful as a maiden, is this dream, This brief dream on earth - - - -”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) first seen 1822 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (7th September 1822) Poetical Sketches. Third series - Sketch the First. The Mine
“Clara: Neighbours, dear friends, ye dream, ye dream : awake! Gaze not on me with sadly wondering eyes, I only bid you to your actual wish. My voice is but the voice of your own hearts.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) first seen 1835 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The London Literary Gazette (7th March 1835)
“For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream in the same simple way as I dream about the black dots representing towns and villages on a map.”
Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) first seen 1888 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Theo, Monday, 9 or Tuesday, 10 July 1888, as quoted in Windows of the Soul : Experiencing God in New Ways‎ (1996) by Ken Gire, p. 91.; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (letter 638)