Castles Quotes

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.

I'm not an educated man, but I've read some history. Every kingdom comes up bloody. Every castle is built on a pile of bones. When I came out here, LA was nothing. Back east I was a gangster, out here I'm god.

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

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

A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle.

You make kingdoms and castles on your own.

You enrich people with creative resources, and over time, these Lego bricks that end up in their heads eventually build this enormous, incredible castle.

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

Castles are Forrests of stones.

I saw at once that I had only to rise in my machine, fix my eyes upon the castle, fly over it and speed directly across to the French coast. It seemed so easy that it looked like a cross-country flight. I am glad I thought so and felt so.

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

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

If a castle gets destroyed, you just build a new one. If you wanted me to I'd build them over and over. Let's build them together.

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

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

The Word of God will be to you a bulwark and a high tower, a castle of defense against the foe. Oh, see to it that the Word of God is in you, in your very soul, permeating your thoughts, and so operating upon your outward life, that all may know you to be a true Bible-Christian, for they perceive it in your words and deeds.

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

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

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

Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

I expected something a little more castle-shaped," said Jamie. Nothing lasts forever," Nick said. "Except demons, of course." Has anyone ever told you that you're a charming conversationalist?" Jamie asked. No," Nick replied honestly. I cannot tell you how much that surprises me," Jamie told him, and Nick gave him a half smile.

Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.

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

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

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

I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle. Who knows?

The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant laid down their arms?

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

If I was Simon Cowell for a day, I’d buy a bouncy castle, and jump on it. Then…pour ketchup on myself!

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

No tribute is laid on castles in the air.

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

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

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

It sounds almost unreal, but I was born and raised on old castlegrounds - Kenmure Castle.

Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is to be found, for Christ gives by promise. Just as if a prince should say to me, "Come to me in my castle, and I will give you a hundred florins." I do a work, certainly, in going to the castle, but the gift is not given me as the reward of my work in going, but because the prince promised it to me.

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

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

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

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

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.

At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.

A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.

Build castles, don't dig graves.

Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and authority. Neurotic anxiety builds a narrow castle of certitude which can be defended with the utmost certainty.

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

The house of every one is to him as his castle.