Famous quotes containing the words keeping, left and/or takes:
“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)
“Jupiter, not wanting mans life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reasonyou could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 14661536)
“It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her sonand another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.”
—Helen Rowland (18751950)