“I do feel frustrated because I think that we had the best opportunity to pass this when we had it all together at once. And, you know, there's a lot of, you know, talk about taking care of our military. And I think people forget that there is 10,000 DREAMers that are actually in—well, 1,000 that are…”— Ruben Gallego, npr.org
“The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com
“It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer. Of course, if the dream is not followed by action, then it is a bubble; it has merely served to divert the man from doing something.”— Theodore Roosevelt, theodorerooseveltcenter.org
“Dreamers are leaders, teachers, innovators, and scientists. We must do what we can to give them a path to citizenship.”— Kirsten Gillibrand, twitter.com
“I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.”— Alfred Nobel, amazon.com
“You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer . . . If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire For we have some flax-golden tales to spin.”— Shel Silverstein, amazon.com
“Life is an ocean, and most everyone’s hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.”— Tim Tharp, amazon.com
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”— T.E. Lawrence, amazon.com
“It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com
“Surround yourself with people that you can be vulnerable with. People that make you feel normal in all of your weirdness. That live their lives according to their own rules and that give you the freedom to be yourself just by being who they are. Kind people. Good-hearted people. Free spirits. Dreame…”— Rachel Brathen, instagram.com