“I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!”
Roald Dahl book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Variant: We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Music and Moonlight (1874), Ode
Context: We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams; —
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.
“I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!”
Roald Dahl book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Variant: We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer.”
Harriet Tubman (1820–1913) African-American abolitionist and humanitarian
“Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam book Wings of Fire
Source: Wings of Fire, p. 161.
“Dreams represent the current vibrational condition of the dreamer.”
Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher
“Great dreamers' dreams are never fulfilled, they are always transcended.”
Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) English mathematician and philosopher
“Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers”
Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement