“Barack Obama was not born into wealth or privilege, yet today his is president of these United States of America. Barack Obama has lived the American Dream. He has walked in our shoes.” StatesDreamTodayAmericaPresidentBornWealthUnitedUnited StatesShoesPrivilegeBarackAmerican DreamUnited States Of America Author:Ken Salazar
“We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and dealing with strange customs make the first years of life in the new land painful... The economic system of the United States is a mighty engine of persuasion. It motivates people to do what otherwise they never would in return for fulfilling their dreams. In the process, people learn that there is no sharp line between physical well-being and the higher purposes of life. The comfort of owning a house is at once meeting the obligation to care for one” PeopleYearsFirstsWellsLooksStatesDreamCareAmericaPurposeHouseLanguageProcessLinesUnitedUnited StatesEconomicLandStrangeReturnHigherComfortMeetingsPainfulImmigrationObligationWell BeingCustomsPurpose Of LifeEnginesFulfillingPersuasionArrivalsEconomic SystemsYears Of LifeHigher PurposeNew Arrivals Author:John Lachs
“I've got the best job in the world being a senator from the United States, a senator from South Carolina in the United States Senate, representing South Carolina in the United States Senate is a dream job for me, but the world is literally falling apart. And we can't get anything done here at home. So that drives my thinking more than anything else.” ThinkingWorldStatesDoneHomeDreamJobsFallUnitedUnited StatesSouthSenateSenatorsFalling ApartRepresentingCarolinaBest JobSouth CarolinaDream Job Author:Lindsey Graham
“The Indians in the Southwestern United States went to many places of power. They were able to have profound dream experiences where they could see into the future or know what do to and make proper decisions.” KnowsStatesDreamAbleDecisionUnitedUnited StatesBuddhismProfound Author:Frederick Lenz
“Playing for Manchester United is something that most people want and very few people do - but there is no harm in having a dream as long as you are realistic with it.” PeopleWantLongDreamUnitedHarmRealisticManchesterManchester United Author:David Gill
“John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in the Western [United States]; the perfidy of banks in foreclosing on poor people's homes; and the insurgent urge of the book's protagonist, Tom Joad, to speak truth to police power. 'Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy,' Tom promises, 'I'll be there.' In Salinas, Calif., Ferguson, Mo., or Staten Island, N.Y., Tom's truth goes marching on.” PeopleBookStatesHomeDreamTodayGuySpeakPoorUnitedUnited StatesLandPromiseConcernPoliceWesternSeekingIslandsUrgesImmigrantsTomsCopPoor PeopleTrailsWrathMexicanGrapesSpeak The TruthProtagonistsInsurgentPromised LandFergusonPolice PowerPerfidyMarching On Author:Richard Corliss
“Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes by memory's silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung From one united heart.” HeartStillsDreamPastYoungJoyGrowthMemoriesUnitedOur LivesSceneChainsBlissBranchesSilverLinkedChordsVinesSprungFostering Author:Alan Cooper
“We dream of an India where development is the result of all Chief Ministers, the Prime Minister, state Ministers, Union Ministers working together with even Local Body Authorities as one team, a strong and united Team India.” StatesDreamBodyTogetherPoliticsStrongUnitedResultsTeamDevelopmentAuthorityIndiaUnionsLocalsChiefsMinistersWorking TogetherPrimePrime Minister Author:Narendra Modi
“Only a dreamer or a fool would pick a stock at random and expect it to take off like a space ship from its launching pad. Certainly this has happened - about as often as a dime-store clerk has become a Hollywood star or a boy born in a log cabin has been elected President of the United States - just often enough, that is, to keep alive the Great American Dream.” Has BeensStatesEnoughDreamStarsPresidentBornSpaceUnitedBoysUnited StatesAliveHappenedFoolPicksHollywoodStoresShipsDreamerAmerican DreamDimesGreat AmericanClerksPadsCabinsLaunchingHollywood StarsLog Cabins Author:Catherine Crook de Camp
“Whoever is writing in the United States is using the American Dream as an ironical pole of his story. People elsewhere tend to accept, to a far greater degree anyway, that the conditions of life are hostile to mans pretensions.” PeopleWritingStatesStoriesDreamUnitedAcceptingUnited StatesGreaterConditionsDegreesElsewhereAmerican DreamHostilePretensionStory People Book:The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller Source: The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller
“What, after all, is the narrative of the American Dream? It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.” StatesDreamUnitedUnited StatesWaveReformErasNarrativeProgressiveAmerican DreamExpansionDiscourseMigration Author:Naomi Wolf