"I have lifted my plane . . .……" — Beryl Markham
"I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure."
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45 Quotes by Beryl Markham
Beryl Markham has 45 quotes on this site.
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What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and color and class, he learns…
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I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it…
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You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about…
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Success breeds confidence.
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A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
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Roots of the weed sucked first life from the genesis of earth and hold the essence of it still. Always…
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Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an…
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For all professional pilots there exists a kind of guild, without charter and without by-laws. it demands no requirements for…
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Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as…
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I look at my yesterdays for months past, and find them as good a lot of yesterdays as anybody might…
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A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is…
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But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen,…
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More Adventure Quotes
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to…
— David Attenborough
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
— Saint Augustine
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
— Christian Bale
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
— James M. Barrie
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done…
— Edward Abbey
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
— Mary Ritter Beard
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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