Childhood Dreams Quotes:

My success has surpassed my childhood dreams.

- Lisa Leslie

topic: Dream, Childhood, Childhood Dreams

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

- Randy Pausch

source: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.321, Hachette UK

topic: Life, Inspiring, Karma, Last Lecture, Childhood Dreams

When you have a childhood dream that still burns and tugs at your heart when you're an adult, you owe it to yourself to pursue and achieve this dream.

- Robert Cheeke

topic: Motivational, Dream, Heart, Childhood Dreams

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

- Andrew Wiles

source: "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

topic: Dream, Childhood, Adults, Childhood Dreams

Never lose the child-like wonder. It’s just too important. It’s what drives us. Help others.

- Randy Pausch

source: YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

topic: Children, Helping Others, Important, Last Lecture, Childlike

Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream -- of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete -- lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs,

- Glenn Kurtz

topic: Dream, Giving Up, Athlete, Childhood Dreams

I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left.

- Randy Pausch

topic: Fun, Having Fun, Dying, Last Lecture, Childhood Dreams

Don't you find it odd," she continued, "that when you're a kid, everyone, all the world, encourages you to follow your dreams. But when you're older, somehow they act offended if you even try.

- Ethan Hawke

topic: Dream, Growing Up, Kids, Childhood Dreams, Adulthood

It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

- Randy Pausch

topic: Important, Last Lecture, Childhood Dreams

If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity

- Randy Pausch

topic: Dream, Creativity, Should Have, Great Parents, Childhood Dreams

To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.

- Giorgio de Chirico

source: "Letters of the great artists - from Ghiberti to Gainsborough" by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 231), 1963.

topic: Dream, Art, Escaping, Modern Art, Childhood Dreams

It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.

- Randy Pausch

topic: Dream, Fun, Childhood, Childhood Dreams

When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. Then you're in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, "What will I do between now and then?" Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform - your contribution to the world.

- Bette Midler

topic: Dream, Thinking, Childhood, Childhood Dreams

I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.

- Linda McCartney

topic: Horse, Growing Up, Player, Childhood Dreams, Log Cabins

Alice! A childish story take, And with a gentle hand, Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined In Memory's mystic band, Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers Plucked in far-off land.

- Lewis Carroll

source: Lewis Carroll (2012). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and What the Tortoise Said to Achilles and Other Riddles”, p.10, Graphic Arts Books

topic: Dream, Memories, Flower, Withered, Childhood Dreams

The wild, the absurd, the seemingly crazy: this kind of thinking is where new ideas come from ... The people capable of such playful thought carry forward their childish qualities and childhood dreams, applying them in areas where most of us get stuck, victims of our adult seriousness. Staying a child isn't easy.

- Nicholas Negroponte

source: "Toys of tomorrow" by Nicholas Negroponte, www.wired.com. March 1, 1998.

topic: Dream, Children, Crazy, Childhood Dreams

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

- Randy Pausch

topic: Funny, Life, Investing, Last Lecture, Childhood Dreams

I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.

- Jean Paul Gaultier

topic: Dream, Party, Childhood, Childhood Dreams, Presenting

Remember brick walls let us show our dedication. They are there to separate us from the people who don't really want to achieve their childhood dreams.

- Randy Pausch

topic: Dream, Wall, Dedication, Last Lecture, Childhood Dreams

Messi, he's exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there's a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come true. He's a Great Player, not only for today but also tomorrow.

- Eric Cantona

topic: Dream, Children, Player, Childhood Dreams

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

- Raquel Welch

topic: Dream, Reality, Childhood, Childhood Dreams

I really can't complain about anything. I'm living a childhood dream and I have a perfect family. There's really nothing that I'm disappointed with.

- Tim Hudson

topic: Dream, Perfect, Childhood, Childhood Dreams, Perfect Family

It was only my second night in Africa, yet something had begun to grow inside me which I could not stop, as if my childhood dreams had finally found the place where they could materialize. I had arrived where I was always meant to be. I did not know how it could be practically achieved, but I was certain beyond any shadow of a doubt that it was here that I wanted to live.

- Kuki Gallmann

topic: Dream, Night, Childhood, Childhood Dreams

A pony is a childhood dream. A horse is an adulthood treasure.

- Rebecca Carroll

topic: Dream, Horse, Childhood, Childhood Dreams, Cowboys And Horses

I'm finally able to tell you... that I will be playing Belle in Disney's new live-action Beauty and the Beast! It was such a big part of my growing up, it almost feels surreal that I'll get to dance to 'Be Our Guest' and sing 'Something There'. My six year old self is on the ceiling - heart bursting. Time to start some singing lessons. I can't wait for you to see it.

- Emma Watson

source: FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Jan 26, 2015

topic: Growing Up, Heart, Self, Belle, Old Self

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

- Peter Diamandis

topic: Dream, Childhood, Effort, Childhood Dreams

Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.

- Randy Pausch

source: YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

topic: Fundamentals, Fancy, Stuff, Last Lecture, Childhood Dreams

We get to do what we love, and that's the most important thing. I feel very thankful, every day that I get to wake up and do what I do because it's a childhood dream. I get to live my job, and it's more than I could ever ask for.

- Howard Berger

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Dream, Jobs, Childhood, Childhood Dreams, Very Thankful

I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

- Rachel Dratch

topic: Dream, Childhood, Snl, Childhood Dreams

I feel so fortunate, so honored, to have played this game that I love for so long, with so many great players, and in front of so many wonderful fans. I fulfilled a childhood dream the first time I stepped on an NFL field, and the league did not let me down one time.

- Drew Bledsoe

topic: Dream, Player, Games, Childhood Dreams

When I finally had the chance to make my childhood dream a reality - as a co-founder and chairman of Moon Express - my goal was to broaden participation in lunar exploration, and connect the common person to its results. We plan to send robotic rovers - not humans - to the Moon to search for precious metals and rare minerals on the Moon's surface.

- Naveen Jain

topic: Dream, Moon, Reality, Childhood Dreams, Robotics

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

- Randy Pausch

source: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2010). “The Last Lecture: Lessons in Living”, Hodder Paperbacks

topic: Positive, Play, Hands, Last Lecture, Love Is Life

Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.

- Julian Barnes

source: Julian Barnes (1998). “England, England”, Vintage

topic: Dream, Memories, Childhood, Childhood Dreams, Childhood Memories

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

- Valentina Tereshkova

topic: Dream, Sky, Space, Childhood Dreams

To have your childhood dream realized is a really big deal.

- Maya Rudolph

source: "Maya Rudolph: The Fresh Air Interview". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 8, 2012.

topic: Dream, Childhood, Your Children, Childhood Dreams

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short term. Earnest is long term.

- Randy Pausch

topic: Long, Hips, Term, Last Lecture, Childhood Dreams

When you do the right thing, good stuff has a way of happening.

- Randy Pausch

topic: Way, Stuff, Right Thing, Last Lecture, Childhood Dreams

My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.

- Godfrey Gao

topic: Basketball, Dream, Play, Childhood Dreams

That was in 1994, July, 1994, and I can remember that like it was yesterday too because it was the culmination of a childhood dream to finally be laying on the launch pad inside a space shuttle and getting ready to be launched into space. The impression of going into a space shuttle is that it looks like a brand new simulator. We spend so many hours inside a simulator that everything is very familiar. Every switch, the seats, the way things work, but the vehicle, the actual spacecraft looks brand new because it hasn't been used nearly as much as the simulators.

- Leroy Chiao

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: Dream, Childhood, Remember, Childhood Dreams

For a long time, I missed being in the courtroom every day. I missed trial work. It was so much a part of my life. It was what I did and who I was. But over the years I did find the opportunity to realize my childhood dream of writing crime fiction.

- Marcia Clark

topic: Dream, Writing, Opportunity, Childhood Dreams, Crime Fiction

I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies.

- Amy Adams

topic: Girl, Dream, Princess, Luckiest Girl, Luckiest Girl In The World

I grew up watching "That's So Raven" and "Lizzie McGuire," and I said to myself that I could do that one day, and here I am. This is a dream come true and I am just ecstatic to be here living out my childhood dreams.

- Zendaya

source: Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

topic: Dream, Here I Am, Ravens, Childhood Dreams

I grew up in Barranquila, Colombia, and I spent most of my childhood dreaming about becoming a singer.

- Shakira

source: Source: www.viva-press.com

topic: Dream, Childhood, Singers, Childhood Dreams

Due to the NFL lockout, I'm excited to be able to follow my childhood dream of playing for a Major League Soccer team.

- Chad Ochocinco

topic: Soccer, Dream, Team, Childhood Dreams, Major League

Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible. My parents divorce at six, when I was six, really affected me. We moved around and I was with my mom and my sister. I have learned, by the way, there were amazing gifts that came out of that. For one, I'm living my childhood dream. I feel very fortunate.

- Daphne Zuniga

source: "Daphne Zuniga Opens Up About Mindfulness And Finding Love In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2013.

topic: Mom, Dream, Divorce, Parents Divorce, Childhood Dreams

My childhood dream was to win the Olympics, and I've done that. Everything else is icing on the cake.

- Lindsey Vonn

topic: Dream, Winning, Cake, Childhood Dreams, Icing

I grew up loving cars. It was completely and utterly, without a doubt, my childhood dream. Whether your childhood dream progresses or changes, you turn into a man and you probably shouldn't still have that same dream.

- Dominic Cooper

source: "Dominic Cooper Talks NEED FOR SPEED, Fulfilling His Childhood Dream of Doing a Racing Movie, the Stunts, WARCRAFT, FLEMING, and More". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. March 13, 2014.

topic: Childhood Dreams

Hillary Clinton said that her childhood dream was to be an Olympic athlete. But she was not athletic enough. She said she wanted to be an astronaut, but at the time they didn't take women. She said she wanted to go into medicine, but hospitals made her woozy. Should she be telling people this story? I mean she's basically saying she wants to be president because she can't do anything else.

- Jay Leno

topic: Dream, Athlete, Mean, Childhood Dreams

My biggest concern is always the students who are working toward a certain career - when they limit themselves to just that one option. They need to know that the world is huge - it's an ocean, and there are so many options. It's not the end of the world if they don't get to pursue an apparent childhood dream.

- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

source: Nevil Shute (1973). “A Nevil Shute omnibus”

topic: Dream, Ocean, Careers, Childhood Dreams

I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.

- Nolan Ryan

topic: Sports, Baseball, Dream, Childhood Dreams, Very Thankful