Sand Castle Competition

Famous quotes containing the words sand, castle and/or competition:

“Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains of sand from all the grains of salt; but a shower of rain will effect the same object in ten minutes.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

“Let me be at the place of the castle.
Let the castle be within me.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“The praise of ancient authors proceeds not from the reverence of the dead, but from the competition and mutual envy of the living.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)