Quotes About Aspiration

Of course, to be a mother and a housewife is a vocation of a very high kind. But I simply felt that it was not the whole of my vocation. I knew that I also wanted a career. A phrase that Irene Ward, MP for Tynemouth, and I often used was that 'while the home must always be the centre of one's life, it should not be the boundary of one's ambitions'.

Let our children grow tall and some taller than others if they have it in them to do so.

and someday, fat innkeepers will bow to me.

ever since she had read the girl's novel, a piece of artistry that struck her as wish-fulfilment at its most blatant...

It might not be so unpleasant, you know, to do me one or two favours in exchange for becoming a famous authoress.

You who had not been allowed to finish tenth grade but sent to be a frightened chambermaid, carried home every week armloads of books from the library rummaging them late at night, insomniac, riffling the books like boxes of chocolates searching for the candied cherries, the nuts, hunting for the secrets, the formulae, the knowledge those others learned that made them shine and never ache.

She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity -- and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.

She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

Some days I'm just sixteen, and sixteen isn't what I want to be.

The rifle in this story is a rifle full of wishes. Maybe all rifles seem to be that, at least for a moment, when they're new, before any finger has touched any trigger. Maybe all rifles seem as though they might grant a person the only thing they've ever wanted.

Children become like the things they love.

We weep in front of the dead and we aspire towards saving humanity from destruction, but it is not the salvation from dangers, it is the elevation that is the destiny of everyone of us which should stand before our mind's eye. It is not death, but the lost paradise that should afflict us.

A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.

I'd like to have a family.

I want to be the hero," she announced.

When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

Human life – an Everest that all sorts of thoughts and desires are trying to climb.

Sean was young, vibrant, capable. Life hadn't even begun to digest his hope.

But don't give me, if I can't have the dress, a trip to Greenland, or grim trip to the moon. The moon should come here. Let him make the trip down, spread on my dark floor some dim marvel, and if a success that I stoop to pick up and wear, I could ask nothing more.

I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'

Revolution is necessarily inspired in justice and carries with it the aspiration for justice that every honest man has in his heart.

un ingenuo que pretendía llegar a la línea del horizonte.

Would that I were a man,'" I said, quoting Sarpalyce's legend. "Except that I do not wish I were a man. I only wish that being a woman did not limit me so.