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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

Work You Your Lost

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

Sea Fall Sand Made Even

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.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Alone Money Enough Three

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.

William Wallace

King Enemy Country Enemies

I have mortally opposed the English king; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he unjustly claimed as his own.

William Wallace

King Own English He

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

Mother Live Build Air

'Castles Made of Sand' was a song that my parents put me to sleep to, so naturally, it still puts me in a zen state.

Hannah Bronfman

Me Song Sleep Parents

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.

Work Sky Clouds Look

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.

Mind Reading Free Civilization

Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.

You Better Waves Sand

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

Easy Build Air Take

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

Georg C. Lichtenberg

You Better Cards Always

I love the Altai Mountains. Crimea, despite all the conflict, is a remarkable place historically, culturally and physically. The mountains drop down into the sea. Porpoises swim in the shallows. Horses gallop through the grass. There are huge rocks, castles, caves.

Love Sea Mountains Conflict

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

History Blessed See Some

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

Money You Mind Community

I had always been interested in mythology. I suppose my brief stay in Wales during World War II influenced my writing, too. It was an amazing country. It has marvelous castles and scenery.

Lloyd Alexander

War World Scenery Amazing

You build dreams, you build castles in the air, and you hope that at least part of that will be realized, even under apartheid.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Hope Dreams You Will

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

Anthony Trollope

Surprise Ambition Unknown Muse

Sorry, I don't do castles. I hate those winding turret stairs.

Hate Sorry Stairs Those

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

Just Countryside Visiting Fascinated

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

Richard Whately

Passion Know Your Air

The price of toppling Gadhafi will be steep. But Libyans will topple him, and in doing so, they will bring down with him the castles of fear our dictators thought they had fortified.

Fear Down Thought Doing

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

You Vote Live Build

You make kingdoms and castles on your own.

Stephan Jenkins

You Your Own Make

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

Stephan Jenkins

People Someone Who Other

I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.

Love I Am Architecture Great

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