Class Cricket Matches

Famous quotes containing the words class, cricket and/or matches:

    “God of justice, save the people
    From the clash of race and creed,
    From the strife of class and faction,
    Make our nation free indeed;”
    —William Pierson Merrill (1867–1954)

    “All cries are thin and terse;
    The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
    A cricket like a dwindled hearse
    Crawls from the dry grass.”
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

    “That matches are made in heaven, may be, but my wife would have been just the wife for Peter the Great, or Peter Piper. How would she have set in order that huge littered empire of the one, and with indefatigable painstaking picked the peck of pickled peppers for the other.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)