Pitched Stone Court

Famous quotes containing the words pitched, stone and/or court:

    Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    She took you the way a woman takes
    a bargain dress off the rack
    and I broke the way a stone breaks.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice—however much we might desire it.
    Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)