All Beryl Markham Quotes
- 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… Bankers
- I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it. Beyond
- You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. End
- Success breeds confidence. Breeds
- A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words. Emotional
- 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… Cultured
- I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into… Adventure
- 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… Africa
- 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… All
- 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… Ahead
- 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… All
- 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… Allow
- 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… Beginning
- In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents. Demand
- 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… Company
- A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday. Every Tomorrow
- That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity Curiosity
- Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice Africa
- There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa... 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… David
- It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it… Absurd
- One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to… Airborne
- Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error? Error
- There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing All
- The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin… Anthills