All Beryl Markham Quotes
- A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he… Black
- In Africa people learn to serve each other. They live on credit balances of little favors that they give and may, one day, ask to… Africa
- No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work. Achieve
- There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life is life and fun… Adage
- We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of… Across
- A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand. Carefully
- If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse. Bad
- I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep,… All
- A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present… Act
- To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time,… Adding
- To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two… Alleged
- What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows… Arab
- If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work. Any
- We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft, and… Alchemy
- 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
- Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that… Achieved
- The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down. Down
- Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance. The cloud clears as you enter it.… Clears
- After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work Funny
- You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch… Abhorrence