Castles Quotes - Page 15

• I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Land, Rivers

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• No, it's that fun we have. It's real. I'm so thankful they cast good, funny, interesting, warm, kind people in “Castle”, because we blend very well together. At this point it's like a family. We help each other. I constantly ask them: “What's funnier: if I do this or I do that?” And I don't think we care anymore about looking weak or unprofessional. We all just want the best for each other and for the show.

  Seamus Dever

  Fun, Real, Thinking

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• I love Chatsworth, Winchester Cathedral, Edinburgh Castle... Every time I'm in the vicinity of something old and worth looking at, I try to go. You don't even have to leave your home town to see some places. How many Londoners have seen the crown jewels? Not many, and they'll blow you away, I promise.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Home, Blow, Jewels

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• ... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth, the tower of Babel has pierced the sky, the lovely temples and the gray castles have fallen into ruins. But of all those things which hands have built, what hasn’t fallen nor ever will fall? Dear friends, throw away the trowel and mortarboard! Throw your masons’ aprons over your heads and lie down to build dreams! What are temples of stone and clay to the soul? Learn to build eternal mansions of dreams and visions!

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Dream, Lying, Fall

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• Tonight I'll be interviewing Ken Watanabe, Keisha Castle Hughes, Benecio Del Toro and Djimon Honsou - and yes, those are actors, not caterers.

  Joan Rivers

  Tonight, Actors

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• Storm the castle
  Stem the tide
  Rise above yourself
  Cry baby cry
  Cry cry to heaven
  If that doesn't do it for you
  Go ahead and cry like hell

  Meat Loaf

  Song, Baby, Heaven

  Song: Cry To Heaven, 2006

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• It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Dream, Truth, Past

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1989). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”

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• We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

  Francis Bacon

  Wisdom, Loss, Hands

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.61, Modern Library

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• You step forward and make it real for a start. You choose a sensible moment in history. Funnily enough, England was bankrupt and the moment is the death of Richard The Lionheart... Richard takes an arrow in the neck collecting a small debt from a small castle on his way home from the Crusades because he's penniless.

  Ridley Scott

  Real, Home, Arrows

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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

  Children, Holiday, Kids

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think my moment of revelation came when I saw this young man come on court in the most flamboyant clothes. He had a sweet smile and questionably blonde hair and a generally chirpy glamour that in fact concealed huge skill. When he was interviewed he confessed to hating to get angry and it was also said that he slithered out of winning when it came to the big matches. And I thought, My God! This Andre Agassi is the image of Howl in my book HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Sweet, Hate, Moving

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• Dogmatism is by far the best fall-back defense, the most impregnable castle, that ignorance can find. It's also a dead give-away that the person doesn't know why he believes what he believes.

  Bob Altemeyer

  Fall, Believe, Ignorance

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• On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.

  Sarah Fielding

  Reading, Air, Wings

  Sarah Fielding (1986). “The cry (1754)”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• It's very far away, it takes about a half and a day to get there, if we travel by my... dragon-fly. No, it's not in Spain, but all the same, you know, it's a groovy name. And the wind's just right... Hang on, my darling, hang on if you wanna go. Hear it's a really groovy place, with just a little bit Spanish Castle Magic.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Travel, Dragons, Wind

  "Starting at Zero".

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

  Maria Popova

  People, Creative, Legos

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

  Martin Luther

  Giving, Promise, Rewards

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• Now one of the most essential branches of English liberty, is the freedom of one's house. A man's house is his castle; and while he is quiet, he is as well guarded as a prince in his castle. This writ of assistance, if it should be declared legal, would totally annihilate this privilege.

  James Otis

  Men, Law, House

  Argument against the writs of assistance, Boston, Mass., Feb. 1761. Burton Stevenson, Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases (1948), traces the proverb "A man's house is his castle" back to 1567 and notes legal usages of it by Sir Edward Coke in the seventeenth century. See Coke 1; Coke 8; William Pitt, Earl of Chatham 2

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• How many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking trouble about it! They do not like goodness well enough to hunger and thirst after it, or to sell all that they have that they may buy it; they will not batter at the gate of the kingdom of heaven; but they look with pleasure on this or that aerial castle of righteousness, and think it would be rather nice to live in it.

  George MacDonald

  Nice, Thinking, People

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.10197, e-artnow

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

  Samuel Johnson

  Baby, Giants, Want

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.2

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• The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we were ready for our first "adult novel," Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle.

  Hallie Ephron

  Mother, Book, Blue

  "Coming of Age with the Ephron Sisters—and Their Mother" by Hallie Ephron, www.oprah.com. March 2013.

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• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family.

  Sara Shepard

  Wall, Glasses, Dysfunctional Family

  "A Page-Turning Cure For Holiday Family Drama". Interview with Casey Gueren, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 11, 2011.

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• Life is like Candyland, there are many paths to take, sometimes you run into Lord Licorice but the end will always be Candy Castle.

  Jack Barakat

  Running, Life Is Like, Path

  Twitter post from Jul 1, 2009

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• It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see.

  Mark Lawrence

  Eye, Pay, Walks

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• 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.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  America, Giving, Car

  "The Man Who Invented Hip Hop" by Zack O'Malley Greenburg, www.forbes.com. July 9, 2009.

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• 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

  Prayer, Children, Real

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