“Castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually”
Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter
Castles Made Of Sand
Song lyrics, Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
“Castles made of sand, fall in the sea, eventually”
Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter
Castles Made Of Sand
Song lyrics, Axis: Bold as Love (1967)
Donald Miller book Blue Like Jazz: nonreligious thoughts on Christian spirituality
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
“We were making sand castles. Now we swim in the sea that swept them away”
Rem Koolhaas (1944) Dutch architect (b.1944)
What Ever Happened to Urbanism? http://www.arhns.uns.ac.rs/wp-content/uploads/Arch432_koolhaas.pdf The Monicelli Press, New York, 1995, pp. 959/971.
Aaron Sorkin (1961) American screenwriter, producer, playwright
The West Wing, Season Two Commentary Track: Noel.
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
Source: Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
“Giraldus was the youngest of four blood-brothers. And when the three others in their childish games used to build castles and cities and palaces in the sands or mud, as a prelude to their future life, he, as a like prelude, always devoted himself entirely to building churches and to constructing monasteries.”
Qui cum ex fratribus quatuor germanis pariter et uterinis natu minor existeret, tribus aliis nunc castra nunc oppida nunc palatia puerilibus, ut solet haec aetas, praeludiis in sabulo vel pulvere protrahentibus construentibus, modulo suo, solus hic simili praeludio semper ecclesias eligere et monasteria construere tota intentione satagebat.
Gerald of Wales (1146) Medieval clergyman and historian
De Rebus a Se Gestis (Autobiography), chapter 1; translation from James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin (eds.) The Portable Medieval Reader ([1949] 1977) p. 344.
Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Michael Moorcock book The City in the Autumn Stars
Source: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 14 (p. 376)