Top 39 Building Castles Quotes
#1. Then, when they had thus passed the day in building castles in the air, they separated their flocks, and descended from the elevation of their dreams to the reality of their humble position.
Alexandre Dumas
#2. She had been with her share of schemers and men who were forever building castles in the sky. All of those dreams made out of clouds; when it rained - and it always did - they were left with nothing but the soggy shirts on their backs.
Ayana Mathis
#3. Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#4. He invited me to his apartment in the wee hours one morning and pulled out a set of children's building blocks. It seems he used to ride around and around on the Yamanote Line with them, building castles on the floor of the train.
Ryu Murakami
#5. I'm not the white-picket-fence kind of guy. So don't go building castles in the air. You'll get trapped in the rubble when they collapse.
Maureen Child
#6. When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging amongst the books, making plans for my garden, building castles in the air, writing, dreaming, doing nothing.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#7. There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.
Edward Gibbon
#8. Then again, the world had ended. So maybe it was time for adults to talk about building castles again.
Nick Cole
#9. How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare.
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
#10. Building castles in the air is useless unless you have a ladder to reach them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#11. Personal branding for dream fulfillment often comes like the process of building castles. You have to be attracted to the construction work carefully, consistently and passionately over time.
Israelmore Ayivor
#12. Women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they're not being truthful, more often than not it's because they think truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn't mean they don't love you.
Nicholas Sparks
#13. Sometimes, Miki, you've got to stop
building sand castles just to watch the ocean take
them away," Kane murmured against his cheek.
"Sometimes, you just need to find someone to sit
on the beach with you.
Rhys Ford
#14. Since defeat in the Struggle must always be envisaged, the preparation of one's own successors is as important as what one does for victory.
Antonio Gramsci
#15. Books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.
Louisa May Alcott
#16. The local church is the outcrop of the church universal.
Peter Forsyth
#17. God preserve us from fuddle-headed young men who want money for building cloud-castles!
Michel Faber
#18. I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.
Story Musgrave
#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
#20. Adam," she panted. "I thought you wanted to see the lights."
"Yeah, they're real nice. Wonder if I could make you come just by playing with your nipples? What do you think, princess?
Kylie Scott
#22. I eat strategically. If I know I'm having a big Chinese banquet tomorrow, I'm not eating a big dinner tonight, and I'm not having breakfast.
Anthony Bourdain
#23. 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
#24. Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.
Josh Billings
#26. Death is certain, Aleran - for all of us. That being true, we know that all of those we love will either be torn away from us, or we will be torn away from them. It follows as naturally as the night after sundown.
Jim Butcher
#28. No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.
Diane Guerrero
#29. Maybe He is taking you away from me
To remind me to
Stop building war zones
where castles belong.
Dua Yacoubi
#30. 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 ti too seriously.
Anne Frank
#31. But soon the wine sack was empty, and sleep brushed my ears with her ash-lips.
Catherynne M Valente
#32. 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 gate grinds shut.
Catherynne M Valente
#33. How do you preserve your freedom when the powerful can use software bots to detect dissent and deploy drone aircraft to take out troublemakers? Human beings are increasingly unnecessary to wield power in the modern world.
Daniel Suarez
#35. Do you ever feel that we are only building sand castles? Why do so many things happen to us? I am afraid the little we have left will be swept away, too. Why bother?
Sook Nyul Choi
#36. 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
#37. Look at that. There one family lives, kitchen is in China, bedroom is in Myanmar. In this way, this family eats in one country, sleeps in other. I think this house been standing there for many centuries, yes, long time, before anyone decided where one country stops, the other starts
Amy Tan
#38. By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat.
Ayelet Waldman
#39. When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide.
Edsger Dijkstra
