Build Numbers Starting

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

    “And if blood of Martyrs is to flow on the steps
    We must first build the steps;
    And if the Temple is to be cast down
    We must first build the Temple.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Our religion vulgarly stands on numbers of believers. Whenever the appeal is made—no matter how indirectly—to numbers, proclamation is then and there made, that religion is not. He that finds God a sweet, enveloping presence, who shall dare to come in?”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “soon the birds and ancients
    Will be starting to arrive, bereaving points
    South.”
    —Louise Glick (b. 1943)