Famous quotes containing the words pirates, wore and/or pittsburgh:
“Power first, or no leading class. In politics and trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“He wore like a jewel a lemon-hued lynx
With sand-waves loving her brow.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“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)