Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angie Harmon

~My children are my life ... It's not like I don't have my own wants and and dreams anymore - it's just that the kids come first.~

Andrew Clements

I glance into the faces of all these people out for a Sunday stroll, but I'm not seeing eyes and noses and mouths. I'm seeing stories. Every person has a story. All the hopes and dreams. And fears. And secrets. In every face.

Andrew Card

The Oval Office symbolizes... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.

Andrew Carnegie

Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.

Andrea Navedo

My life would be a reflection of my childhood, but it isn't; it is a reflection of the dreams that I had as a child for a better life.

Amos Oz

Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago.

Amos Oz

Israel is imperfect, of course it is - a far cry from the monumental dreams of the founding fathers. One of the reasons is that their dreams were unrealistic. They were bigger than life. These were messianic dreams, dreams about total redemption for the Jews, for the world. Such dreams do not come true, not in their entirety.

Amos Oz

Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.

Amos Oz

All you can see, if you look through the window - everything you see is a fulfillment of dreams, different dreams.

Amos Oz

My dream for Israel is peace, external and internal peace.

Amos Oz

Now, Israel is a fulfillment, and as a fulfillment, it is flawed. The fact that it is flawed is not so much a testimony about the failures of Israel. No, it is a testimony about the nature of dreams.

Amos Oz

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out.

Amos Oz

The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying a new house, writing a novel, carrying out a sexual fantasy, traveling to an unknown country - the moment you carry out your dreams, it's always, by definition less perfect and rosy than it had been as a dream. This is the nature of dreams.

Amos Oz

The whole Zionist project was based on a whole spectrum of different and even conflicting dreams and visions.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.

Aly Raisman

Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ.

Alveda King

I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.

Alvaro Uribe

The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred.

Ally Condie

Everything I dream is something simple and plain and everyday. That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have

Anthony Doerr

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

Anthony Doerr

Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader's heart and a writer's, a connection that transcends the barriers of continents and generations and even death ... And here's the magic. You're different. You can never go back to being exactly the same person you were before you disappeared into that book.

Anthony Hamilton

You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.

Anthony Daniels

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

Annette Funicello

Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.

Anne Tyler

I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping ...

Anne Tyler

I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.

Anne Tyler

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put.

Angela Lindvall

I live a normal life, I take care of our baby, I cook, and I look forward to the weekend so I can spend some time with my husband. It's the kind of change we all secretly dream of, but which isn't always easy to deal with.

Amy Hempel

Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.

Amy Grant

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Anne Rivers Siddons

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.

Anne Perry

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

Anne Robinson

Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.