Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought. — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things. — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
To me, desert has the quality of darkness; none of the shapes you see in it are real or permanent. Like night,… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share
“(Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:) "Lion, rifles -- and stupidity.” — Beryl Markham Copy Share
“The only disadvantage in surviving a dangerous experience lies in the fact that your story of it tends to be anticlimactic. You can never… — Beryl Markham Copy Share
“All this, and discontent too! Otherwise, why am I sitting here dreaming of England? Why am I gazing at this campfire like a lost… — Beryl Markham Copy Share
We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft,… — Beryl Markham Copy Share
Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep… — Beryl Markham Copy Share
There is a certain silence that can emanate from a lifeless object as from a chair lately used, or from a piano with old… — Beryl Markham Copy Share
[The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought. — Beryl Markham Copy Share
“From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of early youth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share
But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place of beginning… — Beryl Markham Copy Share
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a… — Beryl Markham Copy Share
“There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa -- and as many books about it as you could read in a… — Beryl Markham Copy Share
There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and… — Beryl Markham Copy Share
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