Build Numbers Starting

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

“Move then with new desires,
For where we used to build and love
Is no man’s land, and only ghosts can live
Between two fires.”
—Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)

“... there are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)

“It smells like gangrene starting in a mildewed silo; it tastes like the wrath to come, and when you absorb a deep swig of it you have all the sensations of having swallowed a lighted kerosene lamp.”
—For the State of Kentucky, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)