Recreation Ground Pitch

Famous quotes containing the words recreation, ground and/or pitch:

    “Playing snooker gives you firm hands and helps to build up character. It is the ideal recreation for dedicated nuns.”
    —Archbishop Luigi Barito (b. 1922)

    “The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard,
    The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky,
    Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard;
    Enough that he heard it once; we shall hear it by and by.”
    —Robert Browning (1812–1889)

    “Though I have locked my gate on them
    I pity all the young,
    I know what devil’s trade they learn
    From those they live among,
    Their drink, their pitch and toss by day,
    Their robbery by night....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)