Castles On The Sand Quotes

#1. Here's to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our princes. - commentary on Castles on the Sand

E.M. Tippetts

#2. Have you ever been spanked?' he asked me. 'No,' I replied. 'Well, this is your lucky day.

Chloe Thurlow

#3. She was supposed to build sand castles on the beach and put her toes in the ocean, Madame says.

Lauren DeStefano

#4. 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

#5. The lily and the poem made it all real for me; now I knew my memories would stay with me forever. I held the lily and the poem to my heart, and concluded that my life was not a series of sand castles. There was meaning to life, and precious memories even amidst the sadness.

Sook Nyul Choi

#6. Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.

Lorraine Hansberry

#7. Impossibility is a subset of the universe.

Toba Beta

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

Libba Bray

#9. That's what I try to do - write sentences that won't be like sand castles.

William Maxwell

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

Pamela Moore

#11. During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual.

Prince Philip

#12. 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

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

Jethro Tull

#14. Seek forgiveness and be strong.

Debasish Mridha

#15. A naked man on a naked horse is a fine spectacle. I had no idea how well the two animals suited each other.

Charles Darwin

#16. Warm fog swirled in the canyon as we gradually descended. A hundred feet in front of us everything was lost in the fog and a hundred feet behind us everything was lost in the fog. We were walking in a capsule between amnesias.

Richard Brautigan

#17. 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

#18. Castles made of sand slip into the sea eventually ~ JIMI HENDRIX, MUSICIAN

Leo Gough

#19. You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

Marie Stopes

#20. 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

#21. Because we are a globally connected village, we need
to remember that our choices are not isolated. They have
a powerful ripple effect, and that ripple is global.

Linda Fisher Thornton

#22. 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 don't often go there unless I'm doing press. The one thing I have discovered about LA with kids is that it's really great for children. They really like the sun and making sand castles.

Kate Winslet

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

Edsger Dijkstra

#24. I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skills is their capacity to escalate.

Markus Zusak

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

Nicholas Sparks

#26. We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

Ariel Pink

#27. When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#28. Sand castles just aren't made to last.

Alice Yi-Li Yeh

#29. 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

#30. Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

Jimi Hendrix

#31. And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually..

Jimi Hendrix

#32. The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#33. As our bodies mesh as one, I know that this is the heaven I want to fight for: the one in my arms.

Amy A. Bartol

#34. 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

#35. I am being perfectly fucking civil.

Maggie Stiefvater

#36. Polo is like playing golf with a saddle, and there are a lot of moving parts.

Joel Edgerton

#37. 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

#38. ...the only thing harder than knowing the right thing to do...is to actually do the right thing.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#39. Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

Aristotle.