Top 42 Build Castles Quotes
#1. Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.
Shannon Hale
#2. You may build castles in the air, and fume, and fret, and grow thin and lean, and pale and ugly, if you please. But I tell you, no man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or will be so.
John Vanbrugh
#4. If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
Victor Hugo
#5. When the boys come, instead of buying Barbie dolls, all of a sudden you're into trucks and remote controls, cars and tanks. You buy building blocks and build castles and locomotives. You get into knives and later take them shooting with pistols, shotguns, and rifles. All of which made me very happy.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#6. Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
Rita Rudner
#7. Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
Maxim Gorky
#8. If you build castles in the air, make sure you have a ladder to reach them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#9. If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#10. You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky
Banksy
#11. Now is our time. It's our time to chase rainbows and build castles in the sky. It's our time to create a life that we love. Because someday, it will no longer be our time.
Shawn Anderson
#12. If you build castles in the air you will not be able to live in them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#15. Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.
David Frost
#16. I am not afraid to dream. You first have to start with a dream. Build your castles in the air and give it foundation. Without a dream, you are not going to get anywhere.
Kofi Annan
#17. I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.
Rabih Alameddine
#18. Some build their castles 'mid thunderbolts and fireworks. My worlds take shape in silence.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#19. The Seventh Sense
Women
who build nations
learn
to love
men
who build nations
learn
to love
children
building sand castles
by the rising sea
Audre Lorde
#21. Usually the knights would build their castles above a road, just as inns are now built beside the road, the better to plunder the people going past, though admittedly in different ways.
Jeremias Gotthelf
#22. Those who lack imagination have no choice but to base their conclusions on the reality they see around them. But on the other hand, those who are imaginative have a tendency to build fortified castles they have designed themselves, and to seal off every window. And so it was with Kiyoaki.
Yukio Mishima
#23. Let the only things higher than the airplanes in the sky, be the stories that I tell to others and the castles that i build for myself.
Rishi Piparaiya
#24. My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.
Thomas Love Peacock
#25. I'm learning men cannot teach men to build their castles with bricks. time must do that.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#26. 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 to chase, children that are being born, old hearts that are giving in.
Lauren DeStefano
#27. Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#28. I will build you a castle with a tower so high it reaches the moon.
Smokey Robinson
#29. I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
Bram Stoker
#30. And the National Socialists believe that they can afford to ignore the world or oppose it, and build their castles-in-the-air without creating a possibly silent, but very palpable reaction from abroad.
Oswald Spengler
#31. Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle.
Fernando Pessoa
#32. Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
Henrik Ibsen
#33. In order for us to truly create and contribute to the world, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate ideas from a wealth of disciplines, to combine and recombine these pieces and build new castles.
Maria Popova
#34. She was supposed to build sand castles on the beach and put her toes in the ocean, Madame says.
Lauren DeStefano
#35. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time. It is the world outside that box that gives me trouble. I have adapted tamely, though not conventionally, to this visible world so I can retreat without much inconvenience into my inner world of books. (p. 5)
Rabih Alameddine
#36. You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#37. You enrich people with creative resources, and over time, these Lego bricks that end up in their heads eventually build this enormous, incredible castle.
Maria Popova
#38. Our natural tendency is to be distracted - to scan the horizon constantly for predators and prospects. Books made us turn that attention inward, to build higher and higher castles within the quiet kingdoms of our minds. Through that process of reflection and deep thinking, we evolved.
Alena Graedon
#39. There are others who are rich only in wishes; they build beautiful air-castles and conceive that doing so is enough for happiness.
Erasmus
#40. The life you're meant to lead is worth fighting for. Worth crying for, even worth bleeding for. When you sing the right song, your life opens before you, and all the pain and sorrow become the bricks you build your castles with.
Heidi Cullinan
#41. What are you able to build with your blocks?
Castles and palaces, temples and docks.
Rain may keep raining, and others go roam,
But I can be happy and building at home.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#42. There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.
Washington Irving
