Build Numbers Starting

Famous quotes containing the words build, numbers and/or starting:

    “You men have proved that PT boats have some value in this war. Washington wants you back in the States to build them up. Those are my orders.”
    —Frank W. Wead (1895?–1947)

    “Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.”
    —Robert Hewison (b. 1943)

    “what most appals
    Is that tiny first shiver,
    That stumble, whereby
    We know beyond doubt
    They have almost run out
    And are starting to die.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)