Pirates Wore Uniforms

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

    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)

    Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class. At a time when I had not yet grasped the significance of the fact that in my house English was a second language, or that I wore dresses while my brother wore pants, I knew—and I knew it was important to know—that Papa worked hard all day long.
    Vivian Gornick (b. 1935)

    I place these numbed wrists to the pane
    watching white uniforms whisk over
    him in the tube-kept
    prison
    fear what they will do in experiment
    Michael S. Harper (b. 1938)