Sand Castles Quotes

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

Edsger Dijkstra

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Pamela Moore

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

William Maxwell

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

Libba Bray

#9. 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

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

Lauren DeStefano

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Alice Yi-Li Yeh

#14. 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

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

Nicholas Sparks

#16. 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

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

Jimi Hendrix

#19. I know I'm not supposed to argue with you when you talk about dying. And yes, you could die, Neil. But I could get hit by a bus and die tomorrow. Either we need to live every single day together like it's our last, or we need to be comfortable with the fact that some times are just sucky times.

Abigail Barnette

#20. The Internet does not have a reputation as being a particularly civilized place.

Anita Borg

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

Jethro Tull

#22. I was on this bridge overlooking the carpet ... I think it went all the way back to Oregon.

Steven Cojocaru

#23. 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

#24. Our society is struggling because during times of change, the very last people you need on your team are well-paid bureaucrats, note takers, literalists, manual readers, TGIF laborers, map followers, and fearful employees.

Seth Godin

#25. The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture.

Eduardo Galeano

#26. If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

Mikhail Bakunin

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

Leo Gough

#28. Women never have young minds. They are born three thousand years old.

Shelagh Delaney

#29. All I do know is that I'll never be able to achieve what Tommy Docherty did, and that is take Aston Villa into the third division and Manchester United into the second division

Ron Atkinson

#30. This all comes down to what we know about life on Earth.

Margaret Turnbull

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.

Dan Buettner

#34. Most androids I've known have more vitality and desire to live than my wife.

Philip K. Dick

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

Jimi Hendrix

#36. There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#37. 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

#38. I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I suddenly had that feeling that I wasn't indestructible. There was no big white light experience, I just felt this complete blackness and a huge voice inside me saying, 'This is not right.'

Dave Gahan