'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family. — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The sand-castle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction, the moral melee. — Jethro Tull Copy Share Image
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
He [the householder] is the appointer of his owne circumstance, and his house is his castle. — Richard Mulcaster Copy Share Image
An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“It was once said that to hide something from prying eyes you must place it where people can see it.” — Micheal Rivers Copy Share Image
You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting… — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Once we begin to appreciate that the apparent destructiveness of the toddler in taking apart a flower or knocking down sand castles… — Polly Berrien Berends Copy Share Image
I think about the kinds of gardens that Queen Elizabeth put up. She made gardens in the shape of an "E," for… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the Goblin City to take back… — Jim Henson Copy Share Image
And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the… — Paul Elie Copy Share Image
It's very far away, it takes about a half and a day to get there, if we travel by my... dragon-fly. No,… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
My father firmly embraced the Ralph Kramden philosophy: he was king of his Levittown castle. He worked hard, and his family deferred… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
So, I went to Germany and ended up parasailing around this castle. I was in Germany sightseeing, eating Bratwurst and hanging out… — Laura Prepon Copy Share Image
I think my moment of revelation came when I saw this young man come on court in the most flamboyant clothes. He… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Veil, you see, if I vas to say something portentous like "zer dark eyes of zer mind" back home in Uberwald, zer… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
No one is here," Char said. "You need resist temptation no longer." "Only if you slide too." "I'll go first so I… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that being a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Happiness is always the inaccessible castle which sinks in ruin when we set foot on it. — Arsene Houssaye Copy Share Image
A little happy house is the strongest castle in this whole universe! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If a castle gets destroyed, you just build a new one. If you wanted me to I'd build them over and over.… — Fuyumi Soryo Copy Share Image
It should almost be a prerequisite to play Castle Stuart before you're allowed to design golf courses nowadays. — Phil Mickelson Copy Share Image