Castles Quotes

• Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

  George R. R. Martin

  Diversity, Pathways, Different

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.97, Bantam

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• You make kingdoms and castles on your own.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Kingdoms

  "He can see clearly now / Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins looks at success, love, creativity". Interview with Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2003.

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• There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Graduation, Hope, Carpe Diem

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by G. K. Chesterton, V: Man and Mythologies, 1925.

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• 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

  Love Is, Sky, Rainbow

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

  Victor Hugo

  Air, Castles In The Air, Ifs

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• 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

  Dream, Air, Giving

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

  Fernando Pessoa

  One Day, Stones

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• Castles are Forrests of stones.

  George Herbert

  Stones

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• I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Keys, Air, Doors

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.116, ShandonPress

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• A little happy house is the strongest castle in this whole universe!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  House, Littles, Strongest

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• A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.

  Og Mandino

  Men, Fields, Clay

  "The Greatest Salesman in the World". Book by Og Mandino. Chapter 15: "The Scroll Marked VIII," p. 88, 1986.

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

  Taylor Swift

  Dream, Taught

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Walden ch. 18 (1854)

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

  Jon Snow

  Different, Thrones, Sometimes

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• 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.

  Terri Windling

  Journey, Land, Soul

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• My sorrow is my castle.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Sorrow

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Dream, Watches

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

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  House Of Cards, Air, Idealism

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 39, 1799.

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• Wishes, like castles in the air, are inexpensive and not taxable.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Air, Wish, Inexpensive

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• Build castles, don't dig graves.

  David J. Schwartz

  Graves

  David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.58, Penguin

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• Earth is our only citadel in the universe; but we have illogically built many more fortresses within this beautiful castle!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Earth, Fortresses

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• Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the wonderful discipline of the Great Ones. When we used to talk and chatter, they would say: "Go back into your inner castle." It was very hard to comprehend then, but now I understand the way of peace

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Peace, Practice, Discipline

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

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Children, Wall, Feelings

  Song: Fire In The Sky

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• To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after his death -- these are wishes deeply ingrained in civilised man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Children, Men

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

  Maxim Gorky

  Air, Inns, Reader

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