QUOTATIONS: IMAGINATION, HOPE AND DREAMS
Updated March 20, 2000
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams." -Willy Wonka
"Today equals the sum of yesterdays dreams and tomorrows memories." -William Shubin
"Hope is a good thing - maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies." -Stephen King
"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory." -Antonio Porchia
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified." -Aesop
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." -James Dean
Imagination led Columbus to discover America.
Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams -- daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing --are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization." -L. Frank Baum
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." -Walt Disney
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." -Les Brown
"When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else." -Joseph Campbell
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. -Dr. Seuss
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all." -Emily Dickinson
