#keep

My mother's father taught English literature. When I was about ten or eleven, I could recite Macaulay's 'Lays of Ancient Rome.' While other kids were playing pedestrian war games, I'd be Horatius keeping the bridge. ↗

— Bernie Taupin

#ancient #ancient rome #bridge #could #eleven

Then they held my mouth shut for a while and hit me in the face, and with a whip across chest and back. I then collapsed, rolled on the floor, always keeping face down and no longer replied to any of their questions. ↗

— Ernst Thalmann

#always #any #back #chest #collapsed

My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books. And I've stuck to that ever since. ↗

— John Grisham

#books #brand #ever #i #keep

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture. ↗

— George Grosz

#bourgeoisie #collapsing #culture #defend #keep

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it. ↗

— Edward F. Halifax

#go #ignorance #into #keeps #makes

You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe. ↗

— Rickey Henderson

#believed #going #i #i always #keep

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions. ↗

— Homer

#best #contentions #curb #gentle #high

I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff. ↗

— Oliver Hudson

#each #girlfriend #high #high school #i

Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

#conscience #entertain #i #keep #must

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#adversity #always #anger #busy #energy