Quotes About Hope

I grew up in Birmingham, Ala. Nobody really blow up from Birmingham, Ala.

I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.

I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.

As a kid, I dreamed of being nominated for a Grammy.

For the young generation, when they see that there is a film director from Cambodia to go on to be nominated, for them, a lot can change. I don't know another way to restore our identity if it's not art.

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

My husband and I eventually want to start a nonprofit and call it the Westboro Foundation. It was his idea, and I love it. I would love for Westboro to come to mean something besides 'God hates gays.'

I won't hold any illusions of changing the world or any such nonsense. But maybe, just maybe, I'm helping someone else change his or her life a little bit for the better, even if it just means giving someone a magical place in which to hide.

All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.

When young people grow up with fear as the norm, they don't have the luxury to dream.

I'm just a normal girl who dreams, who fights for what I believe.

It is any wife's dream to lead a normal life with her family.

I want my children to have a normal life and not face racism and their children's children.

I was determined that I was going to have a successful and normal life.

There were times I felt I'd never get my life back. Am I ever going to be normal and go out with my friends and have a beer and not think I am going to wake up at 3 A. M. and have anxious thoughts about what normal people are doing?

What do you say to a person who is going to their death? Normally, we would just say, 'Hang in there, keep your hope up,' because there is hope until the very last second.

Freedom means everything to me. It is the most essential right that every person deserves. Most people take it for granted, but not North Koreans.

I know North Korea is the most ridiculous country in the world, but for me, my mum, my brother, and my families and old memories are so important.

If I could've had the things that Americans throw away, I never would've escaped North Korea. That's how much we were desperate.

Nothing is forever, and I believe that North Korea will change in my lifetime.

I do want to go home. That's my dream. North Korea is still my home.

I can't be sure of exactly when and how North Korea will change. But I do believe it will happen, hopefully in my mother's lifetime.

If North Korea chooses the right path, the country can draw a bright future for itself.

Michelle Williams