As quoted in interview with Fumiya Akashika, RedDeer International, October 10, 2014 https://reddeervoice.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/lydia-canaan-passion-for-music-and-humanity/
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
On growing up in a small town, as quoted in Who was Ronald Reagan? (2004) by Joyce Milton, p. 9
Post-presidency (1989–2004)
Context: You get to know people as individuals. The dreams of people may differ, but everybody wants their dreams to come true. And America, above all places, gives us the freedom to do that.
“Give me songs
to sing
and emerald dreams
to dream
and I'll give you love
unfolding.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
“A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.”
Black Elk (1863–1950) Oglala Lakota leader
Speaking of the Massacre at Wounded Knee.
Black Elk Speaks (1961)
Context: I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream.
And I, to whom so great a vision was given in my youth, — you see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nation's hoop is broken and scattered. There is no center any longer, and the sacred tree is dead.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931–2015) 11th President of India, scientist and science administrator
Source: Eternal quest: life & times of Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (2002), p. 64.
“If you can dream it, you can do it. Never give up on your dreams.”
John Basedow TV Health and Fitness Personality
[Basedow, John, Fitness Made Simple : The Power to Change Your Body, the Power to Change Your Life, 2008, McGraw-Hill, New York, 0071497080, 8]
“I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.”
Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
As quoted in Marry Your Muse: Making a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity (1997) by Jan Phillips, p. 176
Undated
