Quotes About Aspiration

Her breast is fit for pearls, But I was not a Diver - Her brow is fit for thrones But I have not a crest, Her heart is fit for home- I- a Sparrow- build there Sweet of twigs and twine My perennial nest.

Let me not mar that perfect dream By an auroral stain, But so adjust my daily night That it will come again.

Summer-we all have seen- A few of us-believed- A few the more aspiring Unquestionably loves... .

Perhaps I asked too large — I take — no less than skies — For Earths, grow thick as Berries, in my native town — My Basket holds — just — Firmaments — Those — dangle easy — on my arm, But smaller bundles — Cram.

And so, upon this wise I prayed, — Great Spirit, give to me A heaven not so large as yours, But large enough for me.

The heaven we chase

I meant to have but modest needs, Such as content, and heaven;

It is too difficult a Grace- To justify the Dream-

I know that the problem isn't the dream per se. It was the way I felt afterward, once awake.

He was a symbol of independence and possibility. The ultimate fantasy.

Still, I don't like his use of the word fine. I want to be better than fine.

Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Do you expect to attend many balls, if I may ask?' and I said, 'Yes, when I am rich and famous.' and Aunt Elizabeth said, 'Yes, when the moon is made of green cheese.

Oh, lord, are we going to have to get a van? Carla's junkyard dog can't transport the whole band." "And we need a PA," Willy reminded her. "Shit. And a PA. Why do you have to be rich to get rich?

I looked in my mirror and saw, not myself, but every place I'd never been.

Ambition was an itch in Mary's show, a maggot in her guts.

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.

The individual and social instincts,—the one a most potent factor for individual endeavor, for growth, aspiration, self-realization; the other an equally potent factor for mutual helpfulness and social well-being.

You can have anything in life that you really want, but you must be prepared to take the responsibilities that go with it. God is ready the moment you are.

There is nothing in the universe that you cannot do or be if you are mentally ready.

A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.

Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.

Victor Vigny: A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon. Conor Broekhart: Which resembles a giant banana.

Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers.

Geen eenden. Alsjeblieft geen eenden. Ik zou de Nobelprijs nog winnen. - Artemis