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building on

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Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go. Sarah Dessen

The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps. George W. S. Trow

Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets. Sachin Tendulkar

Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself. Tim McGraw

Faith is building on what you know is here so that you can reach what you know is there. Cullen Hightower

The world is like an old building on the banks of a stream – it carries away piece by piece; in vain you stop it with a handful of earth. Persian Proverb

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