Pierce Street

Famous quotes containing the words pierce and/or street:

“But wise men pierce this rotten diction and fasten words again to visible things; so that picturesque language is at once a commanding certificate that he who employs it, is a man in alliance with truth and God.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The street is full of humiliations to the proud.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)