"Roots of the weed sucked first life from……" — Beryl Markham
"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 plant retreats before it."
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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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I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels…
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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 Cultured Quotes
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In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of…
— Leonard Bernstein
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
— Annie Besant
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second…
— Samuel Butler
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Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard…
— Adolf Hitler
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It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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So many gay jokes tonight about (James) Franco. Apparently if you're clean, well dressed and mildly cultured, you're super gay…
— Aziz Ansari
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It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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I have a problem with the new cooks: you all are more cultured, you cook better....but you're lazier.
— Juan Mari Arzak
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
— Zac Posen
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I'm listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting.
— Thom Yorke
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