Best dream & streets Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream.”

Dream Work Streets Sweat American Dream Runaway Born To Run

“My journey began with a single pencil. While traveling through India in 2006, I asked a boy begging on the streets, 'If you could have anything in the world, what would you want?' and he answered me with two words: 'A pencil.' Luckily, I had one in my pocket, and in the second it took me to give it to him, a defining dream was born.”

Ifs World Want Giving Two Dream Born Boys Journey Streets India Pockets Pencils Defining Begging My Journey

Author:Adam Braun

“Small business is the gateway to opportunity for those who want a piece of the American dream... Well, wouldn't it be nice to hear a little more about the forgotten heroes of America - those who create most of our new jobs, like the owners of stores down the street; the faithfuls who support our churches, synagogues, schools, and communities; the brave men and women everywhere who produce our goods, feed a hungry world, and keep our families warm while they invest in the future to build a better America? That's where miracles are made, not in Washington, D.C.”

“The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.”

Firsts Dream Answers Streets Cold Eternal Rain Ghost Wander Lifts Dreamer Palms Inquisitive

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“My divorce has changed my life. I don’t cry anymore. My bad dreams are starting to go away. I feel stronger, as if all these ordeals have toughened me. When I go out in the street, sometimes women in the neighborhood call to me, congratulating me and shouting ‘Mabrouk!’ – a word once tainted by evil memories, but which I know like to hear again. And shouted by women I don’t even know! I blush, but deep down I’m so proud.”

Source: I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced

“The war does not end when you come home. It lives on in memories of your fellow soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who gave their lives. It endures in the wound that is slow to heal, the disability that isn't going away, the dream that wakes you at night, or the stiffening in your spine when a car backfires down the street.”

Doe War Ends Home Dream Night Memories Streets Car Fellows Endure Soldier Wounds Heal Going Away Coming Home Disability Marine Sailor Spine Wakes You Airmen Backfire Fellow Soldiers

Author:Barack Obama

“When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse .”

Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“Mean Streets dealt with the American Dream, according to which everybody thinks they can get rich quick, and if they can't do it by legal means then they'll do it by illegal ones.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Dream Rich Streets Illegal American Dream Get Rich Get Rich Quick Mean Streets

Author:Martin Scorsese

“I'm a poor kid from the streets. What I've been able to achieve has really just been through hard work and not letting anyone tell me that I couldn't do something. I always try to encourage people to just pursue your dreams.”

People Trying Hard Dream Kids Able Poor Streets Achieve Hard Work Pursue Your Dreams Pursue Your Dreams

Author:Dave Bautista

“Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look at the earth and the sky, must examine the dust in the street; must walk through the world and his mirror.”

Men World Looks Dream Earth Walks Sky Streets Poet Mirrors Dust

Author:William Baziotes

“Most people can't imagine a life that is any different from the one they are actually living. They can dream about it, they can even go into the streets and demonstrate for it, but they still can't imagine what it would be like.”

People Life Stills Different Dream Would Be Imagine Streets Actually Living

Book:Waiting for the dark, waiting for the light

Source: Waiting for the dark, waiting for the light

“You say you do not know what God's will is, but I'll tell you what it is. Above all it is that you know Christ and then that your neighbors hear about Christ. That is His will. So often we sit around twiddling our thumbs, dreaming about God's will in some distant future when we are not even willing to stand up on our own two feet, walk down the street, and do God's will right now.”

Knows Two Dream Christ Walks Feet Streets Willing Right Now Neighbor Gods Will Thumbs

Author:John F. MacArthur

“I want to have a family and teach them the way to live their lives, pretty much the way I was raised, with a lot of love and the Lord. I want them to stay off the streets, and to have goals and dreams.”

Way Want Dream Goal Lord Teach Streets Raised Nfl Way To Live Dreams And Goals

Author:LaDainian Tomlinson

“Under this [Bush] Administration, America's middle class has been abandoned -- its dreams denied, its Main Street interests ignored and its mainstream values scorned by a White House that puts privilege first.”

Firsts Has Beens Dream America Values House Interest White Class Streets Middle Privilege Administration Middle Class White House Abandoned Denied Mainstream Ignored Scorned Main Street

Author:John F. Kerry

“I can remember when I first got to los Angeles . I didn't have a car, I didn't have any money. I was walking the streets, you know, trying to get from place to place on foot almost. Sometimes, you know, you say, how am I ever going to get from here to there? There are a lot of people still having that dream and not being able to get there. So you never know. The idea is to keep on tap dancing, though.”

People Knows Trying Firsts Stills I Can Ideas Sometimes Dream Able Remember Feet Streets Car Walking Dancing Los Angeles Remember When Tap Dancing

Author:Morgan Freeman

“Baseball is green and safe. It has neither the street intimidation of basketball nor the controlled Armageddon of football.... Baseball is a green dream that happens on summer nights in safe places in unsafe cities.”

Dream Happens Night Cities Streets Football Safe Basketball Summer Baseball Green Controlled Intimidation Unsafe Armageddon Safe Places Summer Nights

Author:Luke Salisbury

“Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.”

Knows World Dream Realizing Perfect Streets Strange Rose Strange Dreams

Book:Lonesome Traveler

Source: Lonesome Traveler

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