Famous quotes containing the words pitter and/or patter:
“Poor comfort all comfort: once what the mouse had spared
Was enough, was delight, there where the heart was at home;”
—Ruth Pitter (b. 1897)
“Houndsditch was ... a crumbling and smoke-grimed necropolis in boarded windows, mummified everywhere by old railings, stagnant air, and cobwebs, where draughty hallways reek with the smell of stale cabbage, Blakean children weep soot, and merchants patter with Mammon and make God evanescent.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)