Inspire your budding performers with these powerful quotes from “Hamilton”. This classic musical is brimming with themes of hope and perseverance, and the inspirational messages contained in these quotes are fantastic for your students of all ages. You’ll teach them all about the importance of fighting for what they believe in through the moving words and lyrics that fill this spectacular play.
1. “There’s a million things I haven’t done, but just you wait.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
2. “I am not throwing away my shot.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
3. “The plan is to fan this spark into a flame.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
4. “I will never be satisfied.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
5. “History has its eyes on you.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
6. “Teach them how to say goodbye.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
7. “Rise up! When you’re living on your knees, you rise up.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
8. “I’m just like my country, I’m young, scrappy, and hungry.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
9. “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
10. “We push away what we can never understand. We push away the unimaginable.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
11. “You have no control who lives, who dies, who tells your story.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
12. “When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game. But you don’t get a win unless you play in the game.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
13. “Look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now!” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
14. “And when my time is up, have I done enough? Will they tell my story?” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
15. “This is not a moment; it’s the movement.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
16. “If you stand for nothing, Burr, what’ll you fall for?” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
17. “I practiced the law, I practically perfected it.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
18. “I’m past patiently waiting. I’m passionately smashing every expectation.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
19. “If we lay a strong enough foundation, we’ll pass it on to you, we’ll give the world to you and you’ll blow us all away.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
20. “Legacy. What is a legacy? It’s planting seeds in a garden you never get to see.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
21. “And if we get this right, we’re gonna teach ‘em how to say goodbye, you and I.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
22. “I’ll write my way out. Write everything down, far as I can see.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
23. “America, you great unfinished symphony, you sent for me.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
24. “Life doesn’t discriminate between the sinners and the saints, it takes and it takes and it takes.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
25. “The world has no right to my heart. They don’t get to know what I said.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
26. “I’m looking for a mind at work.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
27. “I wanna be in the room where it happens.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
28. “Every action’s an act of creation.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
29. “We’ll bleed and fight for you, we’ll make it right for you.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
30. “Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
31. “What comes next? You’ve been freed. Do you know how hard it is to lead?” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
32. “But when you’re gone, who remembers your name? Who keeps your flame?” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
33. “Winning was easy, young man. Governing’s harder.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
34. “They are going through the unimaginable.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
35. “Raise a glass to freedom, something they can never take away.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
36. “I will fight the fight and win the war.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
37. “Love doesn’t discriminate between the sinners and the saints.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
38. “History obliterates in every picture it paints, it paints me and all my mistakes.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
39. “I am inimitable. I am an original.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
40. “I’m not standing still, I am lying in wait.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
41. “You have no control: Who lives, who dies, who tells your story.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
42. “I’m taking this horse by the reins making redcoats redder with bloodstains.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
43. “Your sentences left me defenseless. You built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
44. “We dream in the dark for the most part.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
45. “I put myself back in the narrative.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
46. “There are moments that the words don’t reach.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
47. “I am the one thing in life I can control.” – Lin-Manuel Miranda, “Hamilton”
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