Built

Famous quotes containing the word built:

“I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front line of defense against the anti-Christ of Communism.”
—Frank Buchman (1878–1961)

“I am not aware that any man has ever built on the spot which I occupy. Deliver me from a city built on the site of a more ancient city, whose materials are ruins, whose gardens cemeteries. The soil is blanched and accursed there, and before that becomes necessary the earth itself will be destroyed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,
That was built in such a logical way
It ran a hundred years to a day,”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)