Beryl Markham Quotes

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• What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns soon enough as he grows…
• I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.
• You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
• Success breeds confidence.
• A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
• Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always the weed returns; the cultured…
• I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into…
• Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia. It is what…
• For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. it demands no requirements for inclusion save an understanding of…
• Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands…
• I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might want. I sit there in…
• A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol of confidence and…
• But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place of beginning things--and…
• In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.
• 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 it…
• A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.
• That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity
• Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice
• There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa...
• I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in their…

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