Pitched Stone Court

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

    “When I pitched headforemost into the world I landed in the crib of Negroism.”
    —Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

    “And every stone shall cry,
    In praises of the child
    By whose descent among us
    The worlds are reconciled.”
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

    “Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entourage of diplomatic circle; Rome, like Washington, gives you plenty of time and plenty of sunlight. In New York we have annihilated both.”
    —M. E. W. Sherwood (1826–1903)