Pirates Wore Pittsburgh

Famous quotes containing the words pirates, wore and/or pittsburgh:

    “Well, you Yankees and your holy principle about savin’ the Union. You’re plunderin’ pirates that’s what. Well, you think there’s no Confederate army where you’re goin’. You think our boys are asleep down here. Well, they’ll catch up to you and they’ll cut you to pieces you, you nameless, fatherless scum. I wish I could be there to see it.”
    —John Lee Mahin (1902–1984)

    “The oldest man he seemed that ever wore grey hairs.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “The largest business in American handled by a woman is the Money Order Department of the Pittsburgh Post-office; Mary Steel has it in charge.”
    —Lydia Hoyt Farmer (1842–1903)