Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aime Cesaire

Africa, help me to go home, carry me like an aged child in your arms. Undress me and wash me. Strip me of all of these garments, strip me as a man strips off dreams when the dawn comes. . . .

Ai Weiwei

This week, the world gathers in Beijing for the 2008 Olympic games. This is the extraordinary moment China has been dreaming of for 100 years. People have been longing for this moment, because it symbolises a turning point in China's relationship with the outside world.

Blythe Danner

I loved doing Shakespeare. My two favorite roles, in fact, have been Viola in Twelfth Night and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Blanche Lincoln

It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.

Blanche Lincoln

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

Bo Derek

I grew up on the beaches of Southern California surfing and sailing and I've always loved horses so it was part of my dream that I was able to fulfill to have horses.

Blake Shelton

That's when the dream is so far off it seems like it will never happen. It can be most anything you want it to be.

Blake Shelton

If I had to choose my best day ever, my finest hour, my wildest dream come true, mine would be you.

Bo Burnham

I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in - and I never went.

Billy Joel

I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.

Billy Joel

You can linger too long in your dreams...

Billy Joel

Hey Lord, would ya look out for her tonight, and make sure that all her dreams are sweet? Said now, would ya guide her on the roads, and make them softer for her feet? Hey Lord, would ya look out for her tonight, and make sure that she's gonna be alright, until she's home and here with me.

Billy Joel

She's got a way about her, And everywhere she goes, a million dreams of love surround her, everywhere.

Billy Joel

You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.

Billy Joel

If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.

Billy Joel

If you could only hear what I dream.

Billy Joel

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

Billy Joel

We all end in the ocean. We all start in the streams. We're all carried along, by the river of dreams.

Bill Phillips

It's Very Important to understand the difference between dreams and goals. Dreams are things we wish for-things you enjoy thinking about but don't really know when they'll happen. Goals, on the other hand, are specific things you have decided you need to accomplish within a clearly defined period of time.

Bill Rancic

The American Dream is still alive out there, and hard work will get you there. You don't necessarily need to have an Ivy League education or to have millions of dollars startup money. It can be done with an idea, hard work and determination.

Bill Richardson

The rocket that goes up next March will not only lift a payload, it will launch what I believe will ultimately be the most significant commercial space facility in the country, ... This launch will be a brilliant signal flare that will let the nation and the world know New Mexico's spaceport is open for business. We can now say with certainty that the dream of this spaceport launching a new era in New Mexico's aerospace industry will become reality.

Bill Parcells

You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.

Bill Parcells

Confidence is only born out of one thing ­ demonstrated ability. It is not born of anything else. You cannot dream up confidence. You cannot fabricate it. You cannot wish it. You have to accomplish it.

Bill Johnson

We need to remain childlike. Children don't dream of being insignificant.

Bill Johnson

Serving reconnects people to purpose. Serving someone else's dream empowers not just us, but them.

Bill Johnson

We must dream so big that without the support that comes through favor with God and man, we could never accomplish what is in our hearts.

Beyonce Knowles

The best thing is looking back and realizing how good life is. If you don't take the time to think about it and analyze it, you'll never realize all the dots that are connected.

Beyonce Knowles

I think I've realized that business and being polite [don't] match. You can be fair, but me being polite was not me being fair to myself.

Beyonce Knowles

I'm always thinking about women, and what we need to hear. It's difficult being a woman. It's so much pressure, and we need that support sometimes and we need that escape sometimes.

Beyonce Knowles

We're all going through our problems, but we all have the same insecurities and we all have the same abilities and we all need each other.

Beyonce Knowles

Thank God for my computer. Sometimes when there is no one to talk to, I talk aloud so that I can get all my thoughts out and try to figure out the issues that I'm having and try, I'm trying to find the answers.

Beyonce Knowles

I think people have an idea in their heads about entertainers[and] celebrities. I think they feel like their lives are so perfect, and it's really hard to go through painful experiences when you are in the public eye because it's hard to have closure.

Beyonce Knowles

I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.