Top 100 Quotes About Castles
#1. 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
#2. House-elves come with big old manors and castles and places like that;
J.K. Rowling
#4. I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.
Stephan Jenkins
#5. Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#6. 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
#7. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
#8. Castles made of sand slip into the sea eventually ~ JIMI HENDRIX, MUSICIAN
Leo Gough
#9. I'm learning men cannot teach men to build their castles with bricks. time must do that.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#10. For we have come by different ways to this place ... I can tell by the natural ease with which you wear fine clothes and the way your mouth moves when you speak with waiters in good restaurants. You have come the way of castles and cathedrals, of elegance and empire.
Robert James Waller
#11. Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.
Neil Young
#13. speckled spiders, indolent and fat with long security, swing idly to and fro in the vibration of the bells, and never loose their hold upon their thread-spun castles in the air,
Charles Dickens
#14. 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
#15. 99.99% of all castles in America are located in fish tanks.
Demetri Martin
#16. well', he said. 'most people aren't like you. They're locked up in themselves. They live in their castles - all alone. They're like me.'
'Well, everyone lives in his own castle', said Maude. 'But that's no reason not to lower the drawbridge and go out on visits.
Colin Higgins
#17. 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
#18. As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mortally opposed the English King; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.
William Wallace
#19. 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
#20. Doubt had married my fear and moved into my mind, where it built castles and ruled kingdoms and reigned over me, bowing my will to its whispers until I was little more than an acquiescing peon, too terrified to disobey, too terrified to disagree.
Tahereh Mafi
#21. 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
#22. I was getting really influenced by some darker, heavier electro stuff, like Crystal Castles. And I was listening to some dub-step elements, so I thought this was going to be the natural progression, taking my soft melodies and my soft voice and marrying it with something a little heavier.
Lights
#23. He made plans to keep himself sane, built castles of hope in the dark.
George R R Martin
#24. Do you remember what Douglas said when Marmion, his guest, offered to shake hands with him?" "Yes," said Father Brown. "'My castles are my king's alone, from turret to foundation stone,'" said Musgrave. "'The hand of Douglas is his own.'" He
G.K. Chesterton
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
Victor Hugo
#28. Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them.
Josh Billings
#29. I'm in this relationship for the capes and castles.
Susan Griffith
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood.
Vic Morrow
#34. High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.
Thomas Carlyle
#35. Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
Rita Rudner
#36. I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles.
L.M. Montgomery
#37. There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.
Edward Gibbon
#39. Inside her, great castles of comprehension, models of the world as she had understood it, shivered. She could not decide whether to let them crumble or to try desperately to save them.
Adam Gidwitz
#40. Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
Maxim Gorky
#41. And there were ruined castles covered with ivy - the badge of the old order, clinging to its own; and into the ivy doves dived, seeming to leave in their wake a trail of amethyst, just as a clump of bottle-green leaves is shot with purple by the knowledge that it hides violets.
Hope Mirrlees
#43. If you build castles in the air, make sure you have a ladder to reach them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#44. Don't live in the castles; freedom is in the fields! But I can also say: Don't live in the fields; security is in the castles!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. Then again, the world had ended. So maybe it was time for adults to talk about building castles again.
Nick Cole
#46. Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them.
David Frost
#47. Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.
Samuel Johnson
#48. O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
Arthur Rimbaud
#50. You dwell in whitened castles
with deep and poisoned moats
and cannot hear the curses
which fill your children's throats.
Maya Angelou
#51. Perhaps this was what Queens did. Perhaps they held their Kings in the darkness, deep within their castles and allowed them that moment of weakness they could never show to anyone else. Perhaps they gave strength to their Kings, because everyone else only took it from them.
David Gaider
#52. She was not a rebel princess, shattering enemy castles and killing kings. She was a force of nature. She was a calamity and a commander of immortal warriors of legend.
Sarah J. Maas
#53. On many occasions the curious atmospheric effects enchanted me vastly; these including a strikingly vivid mirage - the first I had ever seen - in which distant bergs became the battlements of unimaginable cosmic castles.
H.P. Lovecraft
#54. 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
#55. I've been in a lot of castles, and they are pretty damp, cold and gloomy. However, I love Windsor Castle in England.
Tracie Peterson
#56. I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.
Walt Disney
#57. The sweet juices of your mouth
are like castles bathed in honey.
i've never had it done so gently before.
you have put a circle of castles
around my penis and you swirl them
like sunlight on the wings of birds.
Richard Brautigan
#58. So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.
Chris Roberson
#59. He was dancing to some music No one else had ever heard He'd speak in unknown languages She would translate every word And then when the world was laughing At his castles in the sky She'd hold him in her body Till he once again could fly.
Harry Chapin
#60. But I'd like to see the castles in the towns where they live, the boy explained.
Paulo Coelho
#61. I have built little. But, I have built many castles in the air.
Frei Otto
#62. Some build their castles 'mid thunderbolts and fireworks. My worlds take shape in silence.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#63. But castles in the air were founded on such hopes.
Jane Feather
#64. If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#65. Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.
Haruki Murakami
#66. God preserve us from fuddle-headed young men who want money for building cloud-castles!
Michel Faber
#67. 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
#68. The round towers of the castles looked as if they were so firmly encrusted in the sky that, to get to their other side, one would have to hew out a passage through the celestial marble.
Hope Mirrlees
#69. Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
Eliza Cook
#71. 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
#72. Building castles in the air is useless unless you have a ladder to reach them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#74. You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky
Banksy
#75. That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty - their impermanence.
Pamela Moore
#76. Out here the sunsets were like Italian operas, torrid, emotional affairs that went on for three hours or more, hanging in the sky like burning castles.
Paul Murray
#77. That's what I try to do - write sentences that won't be like sand castles.
William Maxwell
#78. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
#80. ...But, all the same, it's a fine thing to go along waiting for what will happen next, crossing mountains, making your way through woods, climbing over cliffs, visiting castles, and putting up at inns free of charge, and the devil take the maravedi that is to pay.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#81. Castles, in Nanny Ogg's experience, were like swans. They looked as if they were drifting regally through the waters of Time, but in fact there was a hell of a lot of activity going on underneath.
Terry Pratchett
#82. 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
#83. To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
Richard Whately
#84. When it comes to dreams and fancies and castles in the air, I have the soul of a millionaire.
Alex George
#85. If walls could keep us small, peasants would all be tiny and kings as large as giants," said Ser Jorah. "I've seen huge men born in hovels, and dwarfs who dwelt in castles.
George R R Martin
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. Who needs a castle? Surely not a courageous man! Who needs a guard? Surely not a brave man! Who needs a gun? Surely not a strong man! Cowards need castles, they need guards and guns, simply because they are weak and chicken hearted!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. It's easy to fall in love among the winding cobblestone streets and snow-covered castles of Prague, but is it a good idea?
Dana Newman
#90. We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.
Terry Jones
#91. If you build castles in the air you will not be able to live in them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#92. I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.
Libba Bray
#93. If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.
Larry Constantine
#94. 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
#95. By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.
John Dewey
#96. I slept in castles and fell in love because I was taught to dream
Taylor Swift
#97. Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
Henrik Ibsen
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.
Natalie Dormer
