Higher Pitch

Famous quotes containing the words higher and/or pitch:

    “A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “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)