To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Atimeto be born, and atimeto die; atimetoplant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; Atimetoweep, and atimeto laugh; atimetomourn, and a time to dance: A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 3:1^8.

They listened at his heart. Littleölessönothing!öand that ended it. No more to build on there. And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  'Out, Outö'.

Birds buildöbut not I build; no, but strain, Time's eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes. Mine,O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'Thou art indeed just, Lord'.

Luftslotter,öde er safi   nemme at ty o‹  u" nd i, de.Og nemme at bygge ogsafi  . Castles intheairötheyare so easy totake refuge in. And so easy to build, too.

-Ibsen, HenrikJohan
  Bygmester Solness (The Master Builder), act 3.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

-Inge,William Ralph
  Philosophy of Plotinus, vol.2, lecture 22.

There was silence in the room. Then a voice, stunning as thunder, clear and common as a trainwhistleöthe voice of a ball-park announcer: 'If you build it, he will come.'

-Kinsella,W(illiam) P(atrick)
  'Shoeless  Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa', a short story later expanded into the novel Shoeless Joe (1982) and filmed as Field of Dreams (1989).

I have decided that we shall make and build and never give way.

-Lee, KuanYew
  Remark, 27 Dec. Quoted in  James Minchin No Man is an Island (1986), ch.8.

The detective novel is†the classic example of a specialized form of art removed from contact with the life it pretends to build on.

-Pritchett, Sir V(ictor) S(awdon)
  In the New Statesman,16 Jun.

   When we build, let us think that we build for ever.

-Ruskin,John
  Seven Lamps of Architecture,'The Lamp of Memory', sect.10.

Themost beautiful house intheworld isthe onethat you build for yourself.

-Rybczynski,Witold Marian
Quoted by PamelaYoung in Maclean's,19 Jun1989.

But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.

-Sexton, Anne ne¤  e Harvey
  'WantingTo Die', dated 3 Feb. Collected in Live or Die (1966).