Kept Quotes

2728 Kept quotes by 1970 unique authors

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark. — John Updike
I feel that certain things are best kept inside a family and not discussed with anyone else. — Annette Bening
When I started music, I think it was responsible for keeping me sane, because training as a dancer really kept me in good spirits amid… — Kate Bush
Both Iraq and Syria are a fissile mixture of ethnicities and religions thrown together after Versailles by departing French and British imperialists and only kept… — Michael Ignatieff
Most brands started from a strong base and kept a strong belief. — Daymond John
My husband and I, when we had our five children and they were grown, we thought we were entitled to grandchildren. And so we were… — Nancy Pelosi
As I stood and gave the eulogy for young Michael Brown last week, I kept thinking about the fact that this child should have been… — Al Sharpton
The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to… — Niger Innis
In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in… — Sue Townsend
My mother made me take piano lessons, and because I am her oldest and she had not yet been worn down by the task of… — Sheri L. Dew
I kept my speeches short as captain. I focused on the key points of the opposition of the day. As coach, I was never afraid… — Franz Beckenbauer
I tried my best to ensure I kept the respect for the middleweight division in the tradition of Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake La Motta. — Marvin Hagler
Children have limited power to shape their own lives, but when they can experiment with possibilities through books, their optimism can be recharged and kept… — Morris Gleitzman
I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary. — Louise Bourgeois
I drew a line for myself. I never dated anyone that could hire me when I was first in Hollywood, and I think that kept… — Cheryl Ladd
The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me… — Aaron Patzer
I know my parents loved me - they certainly did everything they could for me - but displays of affection were kept on a distinctly… — Laurie Graham
In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in… — Karen Maitland
I always kept myself fairly fit. — Joel Edgerton
I had a great childhood. Even though I never had my own room - I shared the porch with my grandfather and kept my belongings… — Clint Hill

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