Famous quotes containing the words keeping, left and/or takes:
““... But don’t you think we sometimes make too much
Of the old stock? What counts is the ideals,
And those will bear some keeping still about.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“On fields all drenched with blood he made his record in war, abstained from lawless violence when left on the plantation, and received his freedom in peace with moderation. But he holds in this Republic the position of an alien race among a people impatient of a rival. And in the eyes of some it seems that no valor redeems him, no social advancement nor individual development wipes off the ban which clings to him.”
—Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825–1911)
“Pike speaks: in women revenge takes the form of religion.”
—William Gass (b. 1924)