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)
“It was heady stuff, recognizing ourselves as an oppressed class, but the level of discussion was poor. We explained systemic discrimination, and men looked prettily confused and said: “But, I like women.””
—Jane O’Reilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 2 (1980)
“It takes ten years to grow good trees, but a hundred years to grow good people.”
—Chinese proverb.