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Quotes About Aspiration

Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.
~ Christina Milian
I was not content at home. . . I wanted to live like a colorful butterfly in the sun.
~ Mata Hari
My dream was to become a rec league coach. That's what I wanted to do. I wanted to stay home and help the kids out and be a coach.
~ Kevin Durant
Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.
~ Kevin McCloud
Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.
~ Truman Capote
I just don't want to be the little wife sitting at home. I want to do something worthwhile.
~ Pattie Boyd
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
~ Madonna Ciccone
What if I'm an angel without wings to take me home?
~ Emilie Autumn
The American Dream is not to own your own home, but to get your kids out of it.
~ Dick Armey
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.
~ T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio.
~ Larry King
They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]
~ Juvenal
I had only two girlfriends. I didn't have many friends because I was staying at home and dreaming - drawing and dreaming.
~ Riccardo Tisci
I mean, its hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you're super tired and your feet hurt.
~ Piper Perabo
I was never meant to sit at home.
~ Tina Ambani
I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.
~ Michael Caine
I was rejected by casting directors during the day. I attended class in the evening, then rode 90 miles on the train home.
~ Norman Fell
It's a big dream for me to go home with two gold medals. It's not very easy as it looks like.
~ Michaela Dorfmeister
I remember actually going to see the first 'Avengers' with one of my best mates from home. I'd never have dreamed that I'd be in one of these movies, let alone playing Spider-Man.
~ Tom Holland
A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty and integrity, to reach for the stars.
~ Nelson Mandela
And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.
~ Jack Kerouac, On the Road
I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.
~ Benjamin Bratt
It's an honor to be compared with Terry Bradshaw. If I could do half of what he did, I'd be very happy.
~ Ben Roethlisberger