Keeping is a surname, and may refer to:
- Charles Keeping (1924–1988), British illustrator, children's book author and lithographer
- Frederick Keeping (1867–1950), British racing cyclist
- Jeff Keeping (born 1982), Canadian Football League defensive tackle
- Max Keeping (born 1942), Canadian television news anchor
- Michael Keeping (1902–1984), English footballer and manager (son of Frederick Keeping)
Famous quotes containing the word keeping:
“There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about colored women, and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I’m for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.”
—Sojourner Truth (1797–1883)
“Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view....Permanent transformation had to be internal....The habits of self discipline, as laborious and frustrating as they were to achieve, offered the only real possibility of keeping children safe from their own excesses as well as the omnipresent dangers of society.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)
“Time in his little cinema of the heart
Giving a première to Hate and Pain;
And Space urbanely keeping us apart.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)