Sand Castle Quotes

• We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is ours, off limits to others. We’re willing to attack if others threaten to hurt it. Yet despite all our attachment, we know that the tide will inevitably come in and sweep the sand castle away. The trick is to enjoy it fully but without clinging, and when the time comes, let it dissolve back into the sea.

  Pema Chodron

  Beautiful, Hurt, Children

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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

  Jimi Hendrix

  Fall, Sea, Castles

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• History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

  Heraclitus

  Children, Men, Sea

  "Contemporary Literature in Translation". Issues 23-32 (p. 21), 1976.

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

  Pamela Moore

  Castles, Hell, Sand

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• 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

  Children, Heart, Giving

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.345, Simon and Schuster

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

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Beach, Castles, Watches

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• The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Courage, Men, Order

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

  Nicholas Sparks

  Sea, Castles, Tides

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• Who are the happiest people on earth? A craftsman or artist whistling over a job well done. A little child building sand castles. A mother, after a busy day, bathing her baby. A doctor who has finished a difficult and dangerous operation, and saved a human life. Happiness lies in a constructive job well done. Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what happiness is.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Happiness, Mother, Baby

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• 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

  House Of Cards, Skills, Littles

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.109, RH Childrens Books

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

  Libba Bray

  Castles, Ninja, Just Saying

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.328, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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

  Jethro Tull

  Future, Castles, Moral

  Song: Thick As A Brick Edit No. 1

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• 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

  Powerful, Intelligent, Laughing

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• You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Library, Castles, Sanctuary

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• Once we begin to appreciate that the apparent destructiveness of the toddler in taking apart a flower or knocking down sand castles is in fact a constructive effort to understand unity, we are able to revise our view of the situation, moving from reprimand and prohibition to the intelligent channeling of his efforts and the fostering of discovery.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Moving, Flower, Intelligent

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We start out postulating sharp boundaries, such as between humans and apes, or between apes and monkeys, but are in fact dealing with sand castles that lose much of their structure when the sea of knowledge washes over them. They turn into hills, leveled ever more, until we are back to where evolutionary theory always leads us: a gently sloping beach.

  Frans de Waal

  Beach, Sea, Apes

  Frans de Waal (2009). “The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society”, p.199, Crown

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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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• 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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