Castles Quotes · Page 3

You make kingdoms and castles on your own.

— Stephan Jenkins

“It's only castles burning”

— Neil Young

“Sand castles just aren't made to last.”

— Alice Yi-Li Yeh

“Bordeaux are named after châteaux. Castles.”

— Anne Fadiman

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

— Franz Kafka

There is no castle so strong that it cannot be overthrown by money.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.

— William Allingham

My house is to me as my castle, since the law has not the art to destroy it.

— Prince William

Not likely. Dreams are pretty and usually involve horses or rainbows or castles, or big-

— Obert Skye

If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

— Victor Hugo

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

— Richard Whately

Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.

— Samuel Johnson

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Did you ever build a castle in the Air? Here is one, brought down to earth and fixed for the wonder of…

— Anonymous

Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or…

— John Paul Stevens

Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that…

— Joni Mitchell

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations…

— Henry David Thoreau

One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle.

— James Otis

The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation…

— Simone de Beauvoir

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].

— Edward Coke

You step forward and make it real for a start. You choose a sensible moment in history. Funnily enough, England was bankrupt…

— Ridley Scott

I don't really have a lot of expensive tastes. What else am I really going to do with my money? Buy a…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I simply can't imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about "after the war," but it's…

— Anne Frank

Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no…

— Shana Alexander

How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the…

— Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

And if she asks you why you can tell her that I told you That I'm tired of Castles in the Air…

— Don McLean

It isn’t a perfect place. There are no perfect places. But nobody cares about perfection when there are sand castles to build…

— Lauren DeStefano

I am inspired by great food, theater, books, the beach, black-and-white photography, and great vocalists, like Dianne Reeves, Alice Smith, and Shirley…

— Erica Tazel

Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand…

— Elbert Hubbard

There you are!” he shouted at them. “Father has half the castle turned out looking for you.” “Us?” Hadrian asked. “Yes.” Fanen…

— Michael J. Sullivan

My art and my self-expression in any form has always been an attempt towards sincerity, honesty, and empathy for others. For a…

— Alice Glass

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind…

— Philip Larkin

How can a troubled mind Understand the way? If a man is disturbed He will never be filled with knowledge. An untroubled…

— Gautama Buddha

“Tonight his father had caught up, carrying all the horrors of hell with him. His mother could no longer protect him—hide him—and…

— Amanda M. Lyons

We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass.…

— Pema Chodron

Let none, however difficult the circumstances, consider himself as debarred from the way of holiness. Have we but God and the cross…

— Gerhard Tersteegen

“And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually.”

— Jimi Hendrix

If you want to get to the castle, Groceries, you've got to swim the moat.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The house is a castle which the King cannot enter.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation.

— Gordon B. Hinckley