Build Numbers Starting

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

    “But we must build our walls, for what we are
    Necessitates it, and we must construct
    The ship to navigate behind them, there.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “Out of the darkness where Philomela sat,
    Her fairy numbers issued. What then ailed me?
    My ears are called capacious but they failed me,
    Her classics registered a little flat!
    I rose, and venomously spat.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    “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)