Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.
~By Lucille Roybal Allard ~
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.
~By Clay Aiken ~
You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.
~By Stevie Nicks ~
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
~By Jim Carrey ~
Big dreams create the magic that stir men's souls to greatness.
~By Bill McCartney ~
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
~By Giorgio de Chirico ~
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
~By Man Ray ~
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.
~By Ross Perot ~
I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.
~By Robin Yount ~
I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.
~By Robyn Hitchcock ~
I think I usually have quite ordinary dreams. Sometimes my dreams take me to other dimensions. I can travel in my mind especially when I'm dreaming I focus my mind on what I want to dream. If I want to fly, I focus on flying.
~By Uri Geller ~
But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.
~By Joshua Chamberlain ~
Women are not in love with me but with the picture of me on the screen. I am merely the canvas on which women paint their dreams.
~By Rudolph Valentino ~
Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.
~By Mick Jagger ~
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
~By Paul Valery ~
Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.
~By Jesse Jackson ~
In our dreams we are always young.
~By Sarah Louise Delany ~
Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.
~By Judy Collins ~
In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.
~By Steve Carell ~
I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.
~By Arsenio Hall ~
I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.
~By Mark Burnett ~
If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.
~By John Agyekum Kufuor ~
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
~By Adlai Stevenson ~
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
~By Tim Berners Lee ~
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.
~By Mitch Hedberg ~
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~
I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.
~By William H. Macy ~
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
~By Tupac Shakur ~
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
~By Doug Coupland ~
It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.
~By Rachel Griffiths ~
It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.
~By Olivier Martinez ~
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
~By William Graham Sumner ~
Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
~By Doug Coupland ~
Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That's when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality.
~By Derek Luke ~
As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.
~By Melissa Auf der Maur ~
How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
~By Bram Stoker ~
People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.
~By Norman Cousins ~
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
~By Marya Mannes ~
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
~By Tupac Shakur ~
I want my boys to have an understanding of people's emotions, their insecurities, people's distress, and their hopes and dreams.
~By Princess Diana ~
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
~By Louise Brooks ~
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
~By T. E. Lawrence ~
Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
~By Paracelsus ~
The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
~By Pedro Calderon de la Barca ~
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
~By J. K. Rowling ~
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.
~By Djuna Barnes ~
Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
~By Abdul Kalam ~
Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.
~By Marsilio Ficino ~
This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.
~By Radha Mitchell ~
As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.
~By Terrence Howard ~
Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.
~By Matthew Prior ~
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
~By Paracelsus ~
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
~By Edward Kennedy ~
Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
~By H. P. Lovecraft ~
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
The worst thing you can do to a kid is tell them that their dreams are invalid.
~By Juliette Lewis ~
You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.
~By Herb Brooks ~
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.
~By Charlotte Bronte ~
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
~By Emil Zatopek ~
I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.
~By Kathy Acker ~
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
~By Wallace Stevens ~
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror.
~By Michael Bloomberg ~
Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.
~By Ben Nicholson ~
I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
~By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ~
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
~By Adam Duritz ~
People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.
~By Ralph Lauren ~
Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
~By Paracelsus ~
One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
~By A. B. Yehoshua ~
What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.
~By Salvador Dali ~
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
~By Alphonse Karr ~
People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.
~By Henry Reed ~
I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.
~By Michael Emerson ~
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.
~By Renee Zellweger ~
We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.
~By Susan Taylor ~
I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.
~By Sarah Hughes ~
We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.
~By Lenny Wilkens ~
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
~By Walter Scott ~
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
~By Emile Durkheim ~
God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
~By Jean Rostand ~
My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.
~By Albert Claude ~
I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.
~By Jon Stewart ~
Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.
~By Lucas Grabeel ~
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
~By Elias Canetti ~
If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.
~By Jackie Collins ~
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