Top 100 Keeper Quotes
#1. To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .
Thomas A. Edison
#2. You keep claiming you're not mysterious, but who are you kidding?
-Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger
#3. She has given birth to vagabonds. She is the keeper of all these names and numbers now, numbers she once knew by heart, numbers and addresses her children no longer remember.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#4. Jax Cassidy is a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction. Full of heat, seduction, and romance, her winning characters are sure to capture your heart and find a place on your keeper shelf.
Gemma Halliday
#5. You may be the biggest news to hit the academy since The Great Gulon Incident three years ago - which, by the way, I had nothing to do with.
-Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger
#6. Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is the great extra-somatic keeper of our knowledge of what it is to be human. Reading elevates us. We read to be our best selves.
Nicola Griffith
#8. Claire "The Elysian Fields Guest House? Why didn't he just call it the Vestibule to Hell?"
Dean "Because that would be bad for business?"
From Summon the Keeper
Tanya Huff
#9. I'm not asleep," Jane reassured her. "I'm thinking about the story." "I heard every word," said Michael, yawning. The Park Keeper rocked, as if in a trance. "A Nex-plorer in disguise," he murmured, "sittin' in the midnight sun and climbin' the North Pole!" "Ouch!
P.L. Travers
#10. The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother.
Evan Esar
#11. There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter,' even in hardcover.
Kim Edwards
#12. Being a good person is like being a goal keeper,
No matter how many goals you save
People will remember only the one that U missed."
"THAT'S LIFE
Bilal Nasir Khan
#13. Keeper!"
He inhaled slowly, took Azalea's outstretched hand-shudders went through her throat, he felt so solid-and pressed the brooch into her marked palm.
"I was only picking it up," he said, quietly. His thumb rubbed the red nail mark on her hand. A smile crossed his lips. "Temper, temper.
Heather Dixon
#14. I am the voice of the voiceless; Through me the dumb shall speak. Till the deaf world's ears be made to hear. The wrongs of the wordless weak. And I am my brothers keeper, And I will fight his fights; And speak the words for beast and bird. Till the world shall set things right.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#15. Hatred is internal calamity that destroys the keeper
Aftab Alam
#16. Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!
Ted Dekker
#17. Night was her time. The Keeper. Bond-mate of the cat. Protector of the night. Daughter of the moon.
Kelley Armstrong
#18. Make no friendship with an elephant keeper If you have no room to entertain an elephant
Saadi
#19. After 'Memory Keeper's Daughter,' it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.
Kim Edwards
#20. A true Seeker of Love Should find a good Keeper'
The man Seeks and woman Keeps
Bello Ahmd
#21. Mark had gone, passed into the care of the Keeper of the Stars, but the stars were still there.
Rachel Hore
#23. I'm trying to get people to see that we are our brother's keeper. Red, white, black, brown or yellow, rich or poor, we all have the blues.
B.B. King
#24. With the right alignment, everything you want makes its way into your experience. You are the keeper of your own gate.
Esther Hicks
#25. We are our brothers keeper. Its going to be up to all of us.
Paula Deen
#26. She has been the keeper of home for me, and I have been the keeper of journey for her. And now we look for the lost portion in each other.
Sue Monk Kidd
#27. I glance at the house, dark and empty. "Am I my sister's keeper?" I say. Then I grin at her. "If you feel like waiting, you can come up and see my etchings.
Jodi Picoult
#29. In a few months I was a seasoned guide. I had viewed myself as an amateur guide and a professional shopman, but now gradually I began to think of myself as a part-time shop-keeper and a full-time tourist guide.
R.K. Narayan
#30. Keeper had shifted the limits of my world, or maybe simply rubbed them out. Now, as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened, he was preparing to take a free kick at me. It
Mal Peet
#32. Okay - there's no easy way to explain this, so I'm just going to say it. We're not human, Sophie.
-Keeper of the Lost Cities
Shannon Messenger
#33. He felt, sometimes, like the keeper of memories-the one
who had to facilitate that invisible transition between the way it used to be and the way it would be
from now on.
Jodi Picoult
#34. Thank you, Pig Keeper," Phillip said, and placed a few gold coins in the boy's hand. The boy's eyes went wide as he felt the weight of the gold,even as he absently corrected his prince. "Uh, Assistant Pig Keeper, actually.
James Riley
#35. She was the cook, the hostess, the comforter, and the keeper of all the mysterious secrets for how to do just about everything.
S. Kelley Harrell
#36. It was too late to change anything. Too late to make different choices. To be a better mother than she had been. Kate could only be the mother that she was, Amelia's mother - the curator of her memory, the keeper of her secrets, the cherisher of her heart. That, she would always be.
Kimberly McCreight
#37. What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.
Anais Nin
#38. Still, it makes sense that his insight echoes through my soul when I'm teetering at the edge of insecurity, considering he's Wonderland's wisdom keeper, the custodian of all things mad and daring.
A.G. Howard
#39. Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
Charles Caleb Colton
#40. Then do you mean that I have got to go on catching these damned two-and-a-half pounders at this corner forever and ever? The keeper nodded. Hell! said Mr. Castwell. Yes , said his keeper.
G. E. M. Skues
#41. Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.
Fisher Ames
#42. I am the keeper of the beast, though all men harbor a beast in the depths of their heart
callous, calamitous creatures, driven by deviant demands and derisive diligence.
From the short story What Rough Beast
Michael Hibbard
#43. A Book Keeper! Gods of the word, they are. Finest of the brave. You know, it's them that keep books, (he says) that know things in the end.
Simon P. Clark
#44. Minho looked at Thomas. I nominate this shank to replace me as Keeper of the Runners.
James Dashner
#45. He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#46. I've made plenty of mistakes as a keeper, that's for sure. I'll make plenty more before I'm through.
Tim Howard
#47. A sibling may be the keeper of one's identity, the only person with the keys to one's unfettered, more fundamental self.
Marian Sandmaier
#48. When I was born, I was betrothed to the prince in the Immortal court. I am an Elder, a Keeper if you want to be completely accurate.
Stormy Smith
#49. Granted: I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peep-hole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.
Gunter Grass
#51. Unless he suddenly turns out to be a total psycho, he's a keeper
Kevin O'Brien
#53. The keeper of the keys was one of the most important roles a household servant could hold (Mark 13:32-34). A higher official held the keys in a royal kingdom (Is 22:22) and in God's house, the temple.
Craig S. Keener
#54. We're not our brother's keeper, Joseph. In fact, it's an insult to our brother to presume he can't take care of himself.
Dennis Lehane
#55. Clouseau: Does yer dewg bite? Inn Keeper: No Clouseau: Nice Doggy (bends down to pet a dachshund - it snarls and bites him) I thought you said yer dewg did not bite! Inn Keeper: Zat ... iz not my dog!
Peter Sellers
#56. I have a business manager and a book-keeper who deals with our household bills. My husband and I sit down with her for a weekly report on how much money is going out, but I'm not terribly interested, and I don't have the patience for it.
Jane Green
#57. Once, she had been her parents' daughter. Then great, unlucky Ias's wife. Her children's mother. At the last, her mother's keeper. Well, I am none of these things now. Who am I, when I am not surrounded by the walls of my life?
Lois McMaster Bujold
#58. Jordan couldn't keep the smile off her face. Yeah, I like this guy. He rescued me from a crazed man with a gun, he makes me laugh, and he calls his mother Ma. I'd say he's a keeper.
Julie James
#59. My wife and I, we started a foundation about companion animal rescue, but there's a group called Performing Animal Welfare Society just outside of Sacramento ... and they offered me a job as an elephant keeper.
Tony La Russa
#60. The thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.
Orson Scott Card
#61. Well, lucky you, you've landed in the right nest. Come, come, follow me, young hatchling.
-Keeper of the chronicles (Alister)
Candace Knoebel
#62. And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
Lloyd Alexander
#63. If a gurl understands your bullshit, stcks through your mistakes, smiles even when you've done nothing for, It'z obvious she's a keeper but itz also obvious dont deserve her either
Saeed Jones
#64. It was a day-by-day record of a Guild much younger and smaller than the current one. After several pages, she had grown fond of the record-keeper, who clearly admired the people he was writing about.
Trudi Canavan
#65. No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!
Lloyd Alexander
#66. The only keeper of your happiness is you. Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth and your attitude.
Mandy Hale
#67. You are the prisoner, the prison and the prison keeper. Only you hold the key to your freedom.
Ricky Mathieson
#68. The magistrate is keeper of both Tables, and is to punish the violation of the first Table, as well as of the second.
George Gillespie
#69. She's my love, my home, the solace to my soul, the keeper of my heart, the center of my entire fucking world. The only reason I really believe in my own goodness is because I see it reflected in her eyes.
Emma Chase
#70. Every day life is being conceived somewhere. Every day someone is carrying a child. Every day someone is giving birth to a child. Every day children are coming under the influences of the world. So all these events we can pray for daily. And we can be a Keeper of the Flame with the Maha Chohan
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
#71. Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.
Charles Bradlaugh
#72. I am Devlin, brother and advisor to the High Queen, assassin, and keeper of order.
Melissa Marr
#73. What if I was truly my brother's keeper? And what if I really loved my neighbor? And what if it really wasn't about me but about we - where would we be? The possibilities should blow your mind. But since it's not
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#74. I'm not lookin' to be anybody's keeper. What I say and do is meant to protect me. If it works for somebody else, that's okay, but I don't want people depending on me to save them.
Dan Groat
#75. I'd like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I've been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds.
Roger McGuinn
#76. We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.
Thomas McGuane
#77. If you don't mind me saying, Mr. Hale. She's a keeper. He pointed in Kat's direction.
Ally Carter
#78. Edward was now expressing himself on the subject of the French King, drawing upon a vocabulary that a Southwark brothel-keeper might envy. Some of what he was saying was anatomically impossible, much of it was true and all of it envenomed.
Sharon Kay Penman
#79. Quote taken from Chapter 1:
That's the idea. Listen, Frank, this one is different. She's a keeper." He let that part gel in me. "Get your head screwed on straight and move to Richmond. You hate it living in Pelham.
Ed Lynskey
#80. Clearly the ring had an unwholesome power that set to work on its keeper at once. That
J.R.R. Tolkien
#81. Ruben V is the keeper of the flame of the San Antonio vibe
Joe King
#82. Chin up. There are other fish in the sea. It's a big ocean. Sometimes we need to catch and release a few before we find the keeper.
Kasie West
#83. A shop-keeper in good business is quite as well off as a pedlar that travels the country with his wares on his back. Commercial jealousy is, after all, nothing but prejudice: it is a wild fruit, that will drop of itself when it has arrived at maturity.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#84. Keeper scum."
"That's offensive coming from a wraith. I think I'm going to have to defend my honor.
Michelle Zink
#85. My feeling toward the animal is that he is our younger brother, and that we are our brothers keeper.
Mary Johnston
#86. I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.
Sue Monk Kidd
#87. I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
Karen Gillan
#88. I applaud President Obama for launching his 'My Brother's Keeper' initiative that is aimed to empower our youth to achieve success.
Charles B. Rangel
#89. You have to take care of yourself, your body, your mind, take care of your soul - be your own keeper.
Jennifer Lopez
#90. He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roebuck, stag, courage, thunderman, all-in-green, mountain strider, keeper of forests, my-love-rides
Judy Grahn
#91. If I am never to have you again after this night, this moment, you will remain the wife of my soul. Keeper of my heart.
Penelope Williamson
#92. Long ago Apollo called to Aristaeus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my bees." Golden were the hives, and golden was the honey; golden, too, the music, Where the honey-makers hummed among the trees.
Henry Van Dyke
#93. The labor movement is our brother's keeper! The labor movement is our sister's keeper!
Thomas Perez
#94. So what if he didn't have a heartbeat? The boy was a keeper.
Maggie LaCroix
#95. If you accept that your only job is to be the keeper of your life force, you will make powerful choices.
Debbie Ford
#96. This is the new politics. Personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper.
Hilary Benn
#97. The hotel-keeper, the postmaster, the blacksmith, the mayor, the constable, the city marshal and the principal citizen and property holder, all came out and greeted us cheerily, and we gave him good day.
Mark Twain
#98. The Keeper of Clouds has unpenned his charges.
The Keeper of Winds has unlocked his gates.
The Keeper of Waters has opened the sky.
The Keeper of Lightnings waves his lances.
The Keeper of satellites has observed,
'One hundred percent of probability of precipitation.
Roger Zelazny
#99. This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take that away.
Susane Colasanti
#100. Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I'd lost my father too, it was too easy for me to glimpse a future point where I alone was the keeper of not just my own childhood memories, but of my family lore.
Ann Hood
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