Quotes About Hope

It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.

But I was still hoping to be able to coach and teach.

Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians, teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.

In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.

The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand plan. It was a thwarting of God's plan. It was the misuse of human freedom.

The reason why I believe faith is important for a person is that it teaches you to trust.

Acting is something I love. It's a great craft that I have a lot of respect for. But I don't think it's any greater challenge than teaching 8-year-olds or any other career. In my life, I try not to make it more important than it is and I just hope that rubs off on the people around me.

The greatest difference between now and 1964, when I began teaching, is that public policy has pretty much eradicated the dream of Martin Luther King.

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.

Superman is precisely what we should be teaching our children. Superman inspires us to our best.

If you're on God's team, you can't lose.

I'm not desperate but I know that some day I'll be the coach again of some team.

I like to believe Chelsea is where I will go through and do well. I have been there since I was six years old. My dream is to break into the first team.

Dealing with sketch comedy and buddy teams like Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and Bing Crosby - I just loved buddy comedies.

Don't look like that. Everything's going to be okay. The center will hold." "How do you know?" "Because we are the center.

Being next to him like this made me feel as though everything really would be okay. Not because he'd fix things for me, but because I was reminded of the good in my life and why I had to fight for it. I won't admit defeat again.

Here goes nothing might have been an accurate statement, because nothing actually happened.

Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.

is the only escape plan we need.

Once I was satisfied I knew it, I handed it to Adrian and shot him a hopeful look. "Wish me luck," I said. "You make your own luck," he replied.

You're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other. -Adrian Ivashkov

Devastated...grief-stricken. You were alive, but the way you looked... I didn't think you'd ever recover. And it tore me apart to think of that happening to you so young.

you are my flame in the dark.

How did you say goodbye to someone who wasn't exactly gone