Famous quotes containing the words build, numbers and/or starting:
“When young one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has ones hands full just to be able to remove their trash.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)
“The barriers of conventionality have been raised so high, and so strangely cemented by long existence, that the only hope of overthrowing them exists in the union of numbers linked together by common opinion and effort ... the united watchword of thousands would strike at the foundation of the false system and annihilate it.”
—Mme. Ellen Louise Demorest 18241898, U.S. womens magazine editor and womans club movement pioneer. Demorests Illustrated Monthly and Mirror of Fashions, p. 203 (January 1870)
“He will be starting pretty late.
Hell find that Asiatic state
Is about tired of being looted
While having its beliefs disputed.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)