Quotes about Castles

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually. Votes: 6

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too. Votes: 6

You make kingdoms and castles on your own. Votes: 4

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air. Votes: 4

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them. Votes: 4

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany. Votes: 4

Castles are Forrests of stones. Votes: 3

A man's house is his castle. Votes: 3

Castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up. Votes: 3

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. Votes: 3

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair. Votes: 3

He protected his feelings in walls he imagined, but castles crumble exposing the frightened child. Votes: 3

There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play. Votes: 3

Well, you know, if you do 200 shows a year, they're not all going to be like Castle Donnington. Votes: 3

Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead. Votes: 3

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. Votes: 3

Yes, your home is your castle, but it is also your identity and your possibility to be open to others. Votes: 3

Fame is like a castle. Castles are beautiful to dream and wonderful to watch, but too encircled to live in! Votes: 3

I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle. Votes: 3

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose. Votes: 3

Many CastlesOn My Travels i have been A guest in Many castles Yet the Monument Which i Find Divine Is the oasis Where the heart And the silence Intertwine. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

New rumors that Saddam Hussein is planning to flee to a castle in Libya with 10 billion dollars. Now President Bush doesn't know whether to nuke him or give him a tax cut. Votes: 3

Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received. Votes: 3

Durzo pulled out a gold Gunder from his pouch. Crowns Roth wins, Castles I lose. He flipped the coin. It bounced on the table and, impossibly, landed on edge. There´s always another choice, Kylar said. Votes: 3

I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years. Votes: 3

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too. Votes: 3

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

What I really tried to do with Helen was make her show this sad side of her. She was married off at 16, was so young and living in this castle that can't leave because of how she looks, and married to a man she hates and three times her age. Votes: 3

I was not someone who participated in other people's castles. Votes: 1

I'm just fascinated by visiting actual castles in the countryside. Votes: 1

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down? Votes: 1

Vote Labor, and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative, and you can live in them. Votes: 1

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. Votes: 1

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Votes: 1

Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives. Votes: 1

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind and builds castles of possibilities. Votes: 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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

By the time the children go to bed, I am as drained as any mother who has spent her day working, car pooling, building Lego castles and shopping for the precisely correct soccer cleat. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castles or H.P. Lovecraft-type environments. They were just about normal people who had something bizarre happening to them in the neighborhood. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon! Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond. Votes: 1

You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized your mind to be into materialism. Hip-hop ain't got nothing to do with that. I'm glad that anybody making money has picked themselves up - I just want them to give some of it back to the community. Votes: 1

Build castles in the air. Votes: 0

Fear of vikings build castles. Votes: 0

Build castles, don't dig graves. Votes: 0

Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses. Votes: 0

Sand castles just aren't made to last. Votes: 0

Tis best to build no castles in the air. Votes: 0

We admire the castles, because we admire the security! Votes: 0

No tribute is laid on castles in the air. Votes: 0

I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas. Votes: 0

99.99% of all castles in America are located in fish tanks. Votes: 0

I was not someone who participated in other people's castles Votes: 0

Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable. Votes: 0

In business, I look for economic castles protected by unbreachable 'moats'. Votes: 0

You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky Votes: 0

You've no right to walk into people's castles and take their guitars. Votes: 0

I have built little. But, I have built many castles in the air. Votes: 0

Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. Votes: 0

I slept in castles and fell in love because I was taught to dream" - Votes: 0

There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground. Votes: 0

If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground. Votes: 0

Instead of building castles against your enemies, build bridges for them to come to you! Votes: 0

Not likely. Dreams are pretty and usually involve horses or rainbows or castles, or big- Votes: 0

Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent. Votes: 0

All British castles and old country homes are supposed to be haunted. It's in the lease. Votes: 0

Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them. Votes: 0

Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles. Votes: 0

Building air castles is a harmless business as long as you don't attempt to live in them. Votes: 0

Leave glory to great folks. Ah, castles in the air cost a vast deal to keep up! Votes: 0

When building sand castles on the beach, we can ignore the waves but should watch the tide. Votes: 0

The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea. Votes: 0

Wales is blessed with some truly magnificent castles, full of history and a must see for visitors. Votes: 0

You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything! Votes: 0

That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty — their impermanence. Votes: 0

Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around. Votes: 0

If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air. Votes: 0

You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats. Votes: 0

Ghana is one of the countries in Western Africa that still has quite a few of their slave castles still standing. Votes: 0

O seasons, O castles,What soul is without flaws?All its lore is known to me,Felicity, it enchants us all. Votes: 0

I've been in a lot of castles, and they are pretty damp, cold and gloomy. However, I love Windsor Castle in England. Votes: 0

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles. Votes: 0

Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way. Votes: 0

I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles. Votes: 0

There is no defeat unless one loses God, and then all is defeat, though it be housed in castles and buried in fortunes. Votes: 0

When I was growing up, my idea of Led Zeppelin was all epic lasers, castles, and ten-minute drum solos - that sort of thing. Votes: 0

When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves! Votes: 0

My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air. Votes: 0

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The charges of the hysterics are revealed for what they are: castles in the air built on misrepresentation, supported by unfounded fear, held aloft by hysteria. Votes: 0

No dreams, no visions, no delicious fantasies, no castles in the air, with which, as the old song so truly says, hearts are broken, heads are turned. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

I write the lyrics based on what is going on in my life - I'm not going to write about the old hair metal stuff, like castles and stuff. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Life always holds in store surprises that are more complex and unforeseeable than any dream, and the secret is to let them come and not block them with castles in the air. Votes: 0

Life always holds in store surprises that are more complex and unforeseeable than any dream, and the secret is to let them come and not block them with castles in the air. Votes: 0

I'm not so fond of the sort of science fiction that isn't really science fiction but is sometimes thought to be - Gothic princesses and white horses and bats and castles and things. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0