Keeping

Famous quotes containing the word keeping:

    “Children ... seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.”
    —Shirley Hazzard (b. 1931)

    “Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Soldiering, my dear madam, is the coward’s art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and keeping out of harm’s way when you are weak. That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)