Keeping Left Takes

Famous quotes containing the words keeping, left and/or takes:

    Anne,
    who were you?
    Merely a kid keeping alive.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    My only companions were the mice, which came to pick up the crumbs that had been left in those scraps of paper; still, as everywhere, pensioners on man, and not unwisely improving this elevated tract for their habitation. They nibbled what was for them; I nibbled what was for me.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.
    James Thurber (1894–1961)