Walter J. Hickel Quotes

I've never had a problem with age; my feelings and emotions are still like those of a young woman. Thank God, I can still be surprised and excited, and I can still dream. I think that's something no one should stop doing, because it's what keeps you young!

When our memories outweigh our dreams we become old. And America is forever young.

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?

When we can't dream any longer we die.

We're all dreamers.

When you are young your imagination is so clear.

We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

We don't teach our children how to dream.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Everybody's a dreamer.

Some men see things as they are and say “Why?” I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”

Neither wisdom nor good will is now dominant. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.

I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.

Hope is not a matter of age.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.