American Dreams Quotes

“When Hughes writes, in the first two lines of his poem, “Let America be America again/ Let it be the dream it used to be,” he acknowledges that America is primarily a dream, a hope, an aspiration, that may never be fully attainable, but that spurs us to be better, to be larger. He follows this with the repeated counterpoint, “America never was America to me,” and through the rest of this remarkable poem he alternates between the oppressed and the wronged of America, and the great dreams that they have for their country, that can never be extinguished.”
― Harry Belafonte

“A family that never embraces life's risks never really lives.”
― Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith

“There are great dreamers and there are great workers in the world! When a dreamer is also a worker, he is working for today and for tomorrow as well. For he is building for those who come after us.”
― Julia P. Gelardi, Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria

“This is their new chapter—something they've yearned for. This is their American dream.”
― Michael Dault, The Sons of Summer