A Dream Deferred Quotes

#1. Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.

Elizabeth Bowen

#2. Its not time that changes everything,get your ass up and make some change.

Corneliuas Mashilane

#3. Nobody values your time but YOU.

Brian Tracy

#4. I believe God put that itchy spot on our backs just exactly where we can't reach it in order to encourage us be nice to each other.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden

#5. Your value will be not what you know; it will be what you share.

Ginni Rometty

#6. There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.

Langston Hughes

#7. Hope is a dream deferred.

Jennifer Stone

#8. As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.

Ralph Bakshi

#9. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

Preeti Shenoy

#10. Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why should they? What it amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel.

Doris Lessing

#11. Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.

Langston Hughes

#12. Their dream deferred became my dream referred.

Sandra Biber Didner

#13. In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles De Lint

#14. What happens to a dream deferred?

Langston Hughes

#15. When a president promises something beyond his years in office, he is fundamentally unaccountable. It is not his budget that must finish the job. Another president inherits the problem, and it becomes a ball too easily dropped, a plan too easily abandoned, a dream too readily deferred.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#16. By the middle to the end of the 1970s, Black Power as we envisioned was a dream deferred. And I was no longer in a position to awaken the minds of the people about what was happening.

Junius Williams

#17. Keep on going, even when things look bleak.

Ed Catmull

#18. If there was ever a time that Silicon Valley believed it could revive the long-deferred dream of reinventing money, this was it. A virtual currency that rose above national borders fitted right in with an industry that saw itself destined to change the face of everyday life.

Nathaniel Popper

#19. They coil around each other, the light and the darkness, and they absorb each other continuously, yet they never cancel each other out.

Tom Robbins

#20. Though my mom had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred and destroyed, she instilled in me that I could have dreams. And not just have dreams but had a responsibility to make them reality. My mom taught me from a very early age that I could do anything I wanted to do.

Chris Gardner

#21. I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.

Jack Dangermond

#22. Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams
what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred
I stepped onto the hallowed ground of being a published novelist, and then, fifteen years later, I started to make real money.

Anne Lamott

#23. And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path back to the one who tells them.

Karen Abbott

#24. I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.

Siri Hustvedt

#25. If you want to be happy, love yourself endlessly.

Debasish Mridha

#26. God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.

John Stott

#27. A dream deferred is a dream denied.

Rachel Cohn