In Genua, someone set out to make dreams come true. Remember some of your dreams?
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of pursuing one's dreams and highlights a collective effort to make them a reality.
Terry Pratchett's quote reflects the essence of dreaming and the determination needed to turn those dreams into reality. It serves as a reminder that dreams are not just fantasies but aspirations that, with effort and belief, can be achieved. By invoking a sense of nostalgia, Pratchett invites us to recall our own dreams and to consider how we might work towards realizing them, both individually and as a community.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a graduation ceremony to motivate students to chase their dreams.
And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.
Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
Any fool could be a witch with a runic knife, but it took skill to be one with an apple corer.
People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.
I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win.
When you can't get a miracle, you can still be a miracle for someone else.
Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.
Grace surrounds us and holds us like the sky holds everything in it β¦ and as soon as I find a way to let go of my story, I keep seeing over and over again that grace is always here and it includes the forgetting and the remembering. The practice is the opening of the hand to catch the raindrops, which are always falling. If you don't open your hand, you get wet, but you don't get much to drink.
Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in
It took the madmen of yesterday for us to be able to act with extreme clarity today. I want to be one of those madmen. We must dare to invent the future.
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