When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh…

It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

— Benjamin Franklin

You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“You have to overcome the fear and anger inside you,” the boy named Crow says. “Let a bright light shine in and melt the…

— Haruki Murakami

The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee.

— Jethro Tull

I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.

— Libba Bray

We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing with sand…

— Frans de Waal

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

— Lauren DeStefano

When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide.

— Edsger Dijkstra

That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence.

— Pamela Moore

“But I don't think building sand castles in the air is such a terrible thing to do, as long as you don't take it…

— Anne Frank

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

— Alice Yi-Li Yeh

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

— Winston Churchill

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

— Nicholas Sparks

Apart from The Holiday, I haven't really spent a huge amount of time in LA. Not that I avoid it, it's just that I…

— Kate Winslet

Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron…

— Catherynne M. Valente