Quotes About Hope

Certainly, there is, in our culture, this notion of, you know, you can become anything. You can change.

The notion of 'building a career' had never been heard or dreamed of when I was young.

You see, my movie isn't about football, or about Notre Dame. It's about hope, about the human spirit.

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large.

America was magnificently characterized in November of 2008 when we elected, for the first time, an African-American President of the United States.

The future is always beginning now.

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day.

Where I came from, there's not a reason to have a lot of hope. So much trouble, everywhere. But every now and then, someone makes it out and makes it big, and that person has an impact on a lot of other people.

I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.'

When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.

I've been through difficult times where it just seems like hope is nowhere to be found, but those are some of the greater moments where we run to Christ a little faster and hang on a little tighter.

Tumours can come out of nowhere.

Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.

I'm going to fight every day to make sure the kids growing up in communities like the one I grew up in or rural communities have access to the American Dream because nowhere else - nowhere else on the planet is my story even possible.

I have a little hope that the nuclear holocaust doesn't happen.

I can't really worry about nuclear war any more than I can worry about the aliens coming.

With acceptance comes opportunities. And with opportunities come numbers and, most importantly, hope.

Count the dreams of your mind; if the numbers of the dreams exceeds the number of achievements, you are young.

I wanted to be an engineer or a nurse.

I think if something's good and you believe in it, and you care about it, and you give it love and nurture it, it's going to happen.

Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?

As a woman, I too nurture dreams about the one man with whom I'd be sharing my life.