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)

    “On every tree a bucket with a lid,
    And on black ground a bear-skin rug of snow.
    The sparks made no attempt to be the moon.
    They were content to figure in the trees
    As Leo, Orion, and the Pleiades.
    And that was what the boughs were full of soon.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “I dream that I have brought
    To such a pitch my thought
    That coming time can say,
    “He shadowed in a glass
    What thing her body was.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)