Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Lomax

The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies

Charlotte Bronte

Gentle, soft dream, nestling in my arms now, you will fly, too, as your sisters have all fled before you: but kiss me before you go--embrace me, Jane.

Charlie Crist

As Realtors, you live and breathe the American dream.

Charlie Cox

Of all the London theatres, the Donmar is the dream.

Charlie Chaplin

The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live everyday with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant.

Charles Dickens

There is a drowsy state, between sleeping and waking, when you dream more in five minutes with your eyes half open, and yourself half conscious of everything that is passing around you, than you would in five nights with your eyes fast closed, and your senses wrapt in perfect unconsciousness. At such time, a mortal knows just enough of what his mind is doing, to form some glimmering conception of its mighty powers, its bounding from earth and spurning time and space, when freed from the restraint of its corporeal associate.

Chiang Kai-shek

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

Cheryl Richardson

Sometimes the best way to uncover a new goal or dream is to step back, make space, and allow what's next to find you.

Cheryl Strayed

"The Dream of a Common Language" by Adrienne Rich. I carried it the entire hike. On my first night, when I felt like I was in too deep, I read the first poem out loud to myself over and over.

Cher Lloyd

When you got a dream, you don't just climb half way up the ladder, you climb all the way to the top

Cher Lloyd

If you've got a dream, there is no one out there to stop you, from achieving it.

Charles Lamb

While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

Charles Lamb

The true poet dreams being awake.

Charles Baudelaire

Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit happiness are precisely those on whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, always acts as a vomitive.

Charles Baudelaire

Certes, je sortirai quant a' moi satisfait D'un monde o u' l'action n'est pas la soeur du re" ve. Indeed, for my part, I shall be happy to leave A world where action is not sister to the dream.

Charice Pempengco

I dont want to stay a singer forever. I want to fulfill my dream career as a lawyer!

Charisma Carpenter

I really wish I could sing so I could front a band, because that would be a dream come true, totally. I want to sing. Can't do it though.

I always believe that, as you start out, while you should have a big dream - a big goal - but it's also important to move step by step. So, you know, frankly, if you ask me, when I started as a management trainee in 1984, I don't know that I really thought that I would become the CEO.

Charlie Kaufman

I think dreams are metaphors. Everything you do in writing is metaphorical. So it seems like the same arena to me.

Charles Rangel

Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.

Charles Rangel

The promise of the American Dream requires that we are all provided an equal opportunity to participate in and contribute to our nation.

Bill McCartney

Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.

Bill Ayers

Can we imagine a different world? I can. That's a world where work is rational, it's in the common good, and we're actually producing real things rather than spinning our wheels in dreams of consumer heaven.

Bob McDonnell

I tell you what Hispanics in Virginia tell me they want. They want access to the American dream. Thats why they come here to Virginia and to America, so they want more opportunities to start small business, better schools.

Bill Walton

There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You're talking about men vs. boys.

Bob Hartley

In a powerful, divine dream, I saw 50 million people on a "Royal Journey of Hope" who were looking and yearning for a deeper knowledge of God as the God of Hope in every arena of life and throughout the earth. They are the hope reformers that God will activate to usher the genuine presence and wisdom of Jesus into all the spheres of life into which they are sent.

Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?

Bruce Wilkinson

You are not an accident. You are one of a kind. Your big dream is from God, and its irreplaceable. And you were born to seize it and celebrate it every day of your life!

Bruce Wilkinson

The journey toward your Big Dream changes you. In fact, the journey itself is what prepares you to succeed at what you were born to do. And until you decide to pursue your Dream, you are never going to love life the way you were meant to.

Cary Elwes

I used to sit in school and dream about getting into films.

Carole King

Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.

Carlos Santana

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are people you remember and people you dream of.