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Quotes About Citadel

There's nothing better for kids than a bucket and shovel at the beach. I grew up across the marsh from The Citadel. We loved buying chicken necks at the Piggly Wiggly, tying them to a string on a stick and catching blue crabs.
~ Thomas Gibson
It's supposed to be very beautiful, the Citadel,' Oak says. 'It is beautiful, Wren?' When the light went through the ice of the castle, it made rainbows that danced along its cold halls. You could almost see through the walls, as though the whole place was one large, cloudy window. When I was brought to it for the first time, I thought it was like living inside a sparkling diamond. 'It's not,' I say. 'It's an ugly place.
~ Holly Black
Just come to the Citadel by our side, and try to believe, whatever happens, whatever I say or do or have done, that my intention is for us to all survive this. For us to win.
~ Holly Black
Modesty is the citadel of beauty.
~ Demades
the Land of Dolpo, all but unknown to Westerners even today, was said to be the last enclave of pure Tibetan culture left on earth, and Tibetan culture was the last citadel of "all that present-day humanity is longing for, either because it has been lost or
~ Peter Matthiessen
Chicago is an alien citadel, a source of power and terror. Mordor, basically. (One does not simply walk into Mordor - except that was exactly what everyone in the story did anyway.)
~ Jim Butcher
he exchanged it for the Hermitage, a vast and isolated border citadel in the valley of the Hermitage
~ John Guy
promoted to admiral after a daring escape from the Citadel prison;
~ John Jackson Miller
Earth is our only citadel in the universe; but we have illogically built many more fortresses within this beautiful castle!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
These are the words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah: In the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa,
~ Nehemiah 1:1
And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the kingís forest, so that he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel to the temple, for the city wall, and for the house I will occupy.” And because the gracious hand of my God was upon me, the king granted my requests.
~ Nehemiah 2:8
In those days King Xerxes sat on his royal throne in the citadel of Susa.
~ Esther 1:2
Now there was at the citadel of Susa a Jewish man from the tribe of Benjamin named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish.
~ Esther 2:5
On that day the number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king,
~ Esther 9:11
God is in her citadels; He has shown Himself to be a fortress.
~ Psalm 48:3
So I will send fire upon the house of Hazael to consume the citadels of Ben-hadad.
~ Amos 1:4
So I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah to consume its citadels amid war cries on the day of battle and a violent wind on the day of tempest.
~ Amos 1:14
So I will send fire against Moab to consume the citadels of Kerioth. Moab will die in tumult, amid war cries and the sound of the ramís horn.
~ Amos 2:2