Quotes About Building Castles In The Air

#1. Building castles in the air is useless unless you have a ladder to reach them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. 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

#3. There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.

Edward Gibbon

#4. 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

#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. 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

#7. They introduced themselves as Agent Jones and Agent Brown - their real names, I later learned, though at the time I didn't believe them.

James K. Morrow

#8. Squash has been my life and I owe a lot to the sport.

Jahangir Khan

#9. Christianity is usually called a religion. As a religion it has had a wider geographic spread and is more deeply rooted among more peoples than any other religion in the history of mankind.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

#10. The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

Robert Morrison MacIver

#11. A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.

William Rounseville Alger

#12. Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.

Kendrick Meek

#13. Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.

Josh Billings

#14. Don't believe in everything you see girls, and only half of what you hear.

L.M. Montgomery

#15. Certain songs like 'Enjoy the Silence' - to me, it always fits anywhere. There's something about that song that's really timeless, and I never get bored or feel like I have to muster something up.

Dave Gahan

#16. We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in order to make it impossible for her to go in with the war. That is our object, and we shall pursue it relentlessly.

Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

#17. 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

#18. He gets that sometimes you just need to guard the door without knowing why

Daisy Whitney

#19. To discipline ourselves through fasting brings us in tune with God, and fast day provides an occasion to set aside the temporal so that we might enjoy the higher qualities of the spiritual. As we fast on that day we learn and better understand the needs of those who are less fortunate.

Howard W. Hunter

#20. No tribute is laid on castles in the air.

Charles Churchill

#21. I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.

Geraldine Brooks

#22. Liberal politics meant the politics of common-sense.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman