"Build on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... MEDINA All build on this as on a stable cube. If we our footing keep, we fetch him forth, And crown him King. If up we fly i'th air, We for his soul's ...
— The Noble Spanish Soldier • Thomas Dekker
... remain, of course. What is in his way is the stupidity that, piling up for thousands of years, has grown into a mountain. The modern sages want to build on this mountain, but that, of course, will lead to nothing but making the mountain still higher. It is the mountain itself that must be removed. It must be levelled to its foundation, down to the bare ...
— Savva and The Life of Man • Leonid Andreyev
... with that boy," was Mr. Tolman's comment, when a pause came in the narrative. "I only hope he will not disappoint him. There must be a great difference between the standards of the two. However, Dick has some fine characteristics to build on—honesty and manliness. I think the fact that he showed no coward blood and was ready to stand by what he had done appealed to Ackerman. It proved that although they had not had the same opportunity in life they at least had some good stuff in common. You can't ...
— Steve and the Steam Engine • Sara Ware Bassett
... looked down into her glowing face. He cleared his throat. "It's a perfectly natural state of affairs," he said smoothly. "Winnebago's growing. Especially over there on the west side, since the new mill went up, and they've extended the street car line. They need the land to build on. It's ...
— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber
... fields, which had appeared to me so desirable for the object, the question arose, what I was to do for the obtaining of land. Under these circumstances some of my Christian friends again asked, as they had done before, why I did not build on the ground which we have around the new Orphan House. My reply was, as before, that it could not be done: 1. Because it would throw the new Orphan House for nearly two years into disorder, on account of the building going on round about it. 2. There would not be sufficient ...
— The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Mueller • George Mueller
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