I Had A Dream Quotes

One night I had a dream and woke up and wrote down the dream. That was my first short story. The dream was a kind of fantasy of me getting revenge on my father.

And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land

I have been singing since I was two years old, my parents tell me, and started to write songs when I was fifteen. Eventually, my friends and my parents knew that this was something I liked to do. They also knew I had a dream of making my own album. They have always been encouraging me to do something about it, and so I did. So I went to a local radio station in Tromsø, and there I got to record a couple of songs.

Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.

I had a dream where my face was a hamburger. What the?

I never gave up. I never quit. I've been a leader all my life, from elementary school to president of my class to excelling at college. I had a dream, and my dream sustained me. I wasn't going to let anything stand in my way. I was like a meteorite. I wanted to become a star. It's been quite a journey.

People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

I had a dream. And I made that dream come true.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

So quick bright things come to confusion.​​​​​​

Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them.

Who needs a dream? Who needs ambition? Who'd be the fool in my position? Once I had dreams, now they're obsessions. Hopes became needs, lovers possessions. Then they move in, oh so discretely. Slowly at first, smiling too sweetly. I opened doors, they walked right through them. Called me their friend, I hardly knew them... Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining. Times have been good, fast, entertaining. But what's the point if I'm concealing not only love, all other feeling.

I had a dream that Connie Chung is doing a newscast about my death and they show a clip from Soap.

If I had a dream show, I probably shouldn't even mention it in this climate, but it would be like a kind of Fix It show.

I was doing a campaign once for a manufacturer, and I couldn't think of an ideas, and I was kind of desperate about it. The night before I had to show something to my client I had a dream, an interesting dream. I woke up and for once in my life I wrote it down and went back to sleep Next morning I went to the office and had that dream out into a TV commercial which is still running thirty years after and which has made that particular product the leader in its field.

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God’s children.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

I had a dream that Britney Spears rubbed her breasts in my face and Jennifer Lopez gave me head while Salma Hayek sucked my toes and the Olsen twins videotaped everything. I would have kept dreaming it, too, if I hadn't set off the smoke detector.

I keep a daily journal of whatever weird thought comes into my mind, like when I had a dream I was in North Dakota in the middle of a blizzard and for some reason the Egyptian pyramids were there, too - that I was able to shuffle into the book.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

Never give up on what you really want to do

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

... I had a dream where I was taken to Heaven and brought into a beautiful library. There I was given two golden books that were covered with dust. The Lord told me they were golden treasure that was needed for the Body of Christ to have the knowledge to proceed and succeed in this hour.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

I'd like to try to inspire the youth, that's obviously where our future is and the kids are the ones you can mould and you can give them ideas and opportunities and I'd like to try to inspire all the young kids because I had a dream when I was young, that was to play for Australia.

I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I'd gone to school with was sick - one of the first people I knew who'd gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called 'Angels in America.' I've never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it.

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

If you can dream it, you can make it so.

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.