Quotes about Dreams

I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.

The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably yet quietly, she seemed like the champion of the rights of sleepers, like one of those spectral presences which rise in twilight in woods made of sky and branches.

Virtually all the characters in the novel have failed to live up to their early dreams and ambitions.

Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.

The best thing about dreams is that youth holds on to them.

the dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown...

The dreams of childhood—its airy fables; its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond: so good to be believed-in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown, for the least among them rises to the stature of a great Charity in the heart, suffering the little children to come into the midst of it, and to keep with their pure hands a garden in the stony ways of this world

Now, I return to this young fellow. And the communication I have got to make is, that he has Great Expectations.

There are not many places that I find it more agreeable to revisit, when I am in an idle mood, than some places to which I have never been.

It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished.

Your Heavenly Father's love elevates you to a place where you can dream big dreams— where you can live with purpose, unafraid.

Never give up on a dream just because of the length of time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. 1277