Quotes About Castles In The Sand

#1. 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

#2. There's never going to be a united Ireland, you know.

Seamus Heaney

#3. 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

#4. All negative adherences are consequential to one's well-being, whether it's tobacco, alcohol or any other form of drug regardless of the quantity or quality. I know because I am guilty of many, past and presently.

Nicholas Dodge

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

Libba Bray

#6. Hunger is the best seasoning.

Anthony Ryan

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

William Maxwell

#8. Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Pamela Moore

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

Lauren DeStefano

#11. 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

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

Jethro Tull

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. We are in a time when the Peace Corps mission is more vital than ever, and the organization is at a 30-year high in the number of volunteers in the field. The Peace Corps is currently in 69 posts and serving 75 countries across the globe.

Kenny Marchant

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

Leo Gough

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Jimi Hendrix

#20. Have you not seen that in our days
Of any whose story, song or art
Delights us, our sincerest praise
Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?

C.S. Lewis

#21. He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage.

James Joyce

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.

Dale Carnegie

#25. 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

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

Jimi Hendrix

#27. 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

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

Alice Yi-Li Yeh

#29. 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

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

Nicholas Sparks

#31. 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

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

Edsger Dijkstra

#33. 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