"I lived a dream life (almost too..." - Quote by Woodrow Wilson
I lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps) when I was a lad and even now my thought goes back for refreshment to thosedays when all the world seemed to be a place of heroic adventure in which one's heart must keep its own counsel.
More by Woodrow Wilson
“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”
“War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.”
“It is not men that interest or disturb me primarily; it is ideas. Ideas live; men die.”
More on Childhood
“I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.”
“The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.”
“When I was a kid I got no respect. The time I was kidnapped, and the kidnappers sent my parents a note they said, "We want five thousand dollars or you'll see your kid again."”
More on Dreams
“Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream.”
“I knew that I had seen, had seen at lastThat girl my unremembering nights hold fastOr else my dreams that flyIf I should rub an eye,And yet in flying fling into my meatA crazy juice that makes the pulses beat.”
“Go confidently ... Live the life that you imagined.”