Books Quote by Alan Paton

“He is a missionary and believes in God, intensely I mean, but it takes all kinds to make a world.”

— Alan Paton

“All roads lead to Johannesburg. If you are white or if you are black they lead to Johannesburg. If the crops fail, there is…

— Alan Paton

“There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.”

— Alan Paton

The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and that's why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.

— Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school,…

— Alan Paton

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

— Alan Paton

“Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come…

— Alan Paton

“In a land of fear... incorruptibility is like a lamp set upon a stand, giving light to all in the house.”

— Alan Paton

“Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some immense…

— Alan Paton

And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.…

— Alan Paton

“Would age now swiftly overtake him? Would this terrible nodding last now for all his days, so that men said aloud in his presence,…

— Alan Paton

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man…

— Alan Paton