Beryl Markham Quotes - Page 3

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• 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 to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together.

  Beryl Markham

  Children, Good Friend, Boys

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• 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 the firelight and see them all. The hours that made them were good, and so were the moments that made the hours. I have had responsibilities and work, dangers and pleasure, good friends, and a world without walls to live in.

  Beryl Markham

  Wall, Responsibility, Good Friend

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.210, Open Road Media

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• the sun is as dispassionate as the hand of a man who greets you with his mind on other things.

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  Men, Hands, Mind

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.157, Open Road Media

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• To me, desert has the quality of darkness; none of the shapes you see in it are real or permanent. Like night, the desert is boundless, comfortless, and infinite. Like night, it intrigues the mind and leads it to futility. When you have flown halfway across a desert, you experience the desperation of a sleepless man waiting for dawn which only comes when the importance of its coming is lost.

  Beryl Markham

  Real, Night, Men

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.279, Open Road Media

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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 a symbol of confidence and trust. It is not like a printed page that bears mere words, ambiguous and artful, and whose most believing reader - even whose author, perhaps - must allow in his mind a recess for doubt. A map says to you, 'Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not.' It says, 'I am the earth in the palm of your hand. Without me, you are alone and lost.

  Beryl Markham

  Believe, Men, Hands

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.272, Open Road Media

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• Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice

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  Land, Voice, Fundamentals

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.302, Open Road Media

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• all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.

  Beryl Markham

  Flying, Boards, Instruments

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.

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  Work, Dignity, Achieve

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.308, Open Road Media

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• In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.

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  Views, Parent, Demand

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.133, Open Road Media

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• 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 - and so talk goes out through the lips.

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  Lonely, Men, Lips

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• 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 of ending things I never thought would end.

  Beryl Markham

  Littles, Good Omens, Ends

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.158, Open Road Media

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• I have a trunk containing continents.

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  Trunks, Continents, Containing

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.273, Open Road Media

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• [The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

  Beryl Markham

  Men, Lions, Kind

  McDougal, Beryl Markham (1997). “West with the Night”, McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin

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• [Elephants] are less agile and physically less adaptable than ourselves - Nature having developed their bodies in one direction and their brains in another, while human beings, on the other hand, drew from Mr. Darwin's lottery of evolution both the winning ticket and the stub to match it. This, I suppose, is why we are so wonderful and can make movies and electric razors and wireless sets - and guns with which to shoot the elephant, the hare, clay pigeons, and each other.

  Beryl Markham

  Gun, Winning, One Direction

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• there are many Africas.

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  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.13, Open Road Media

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• Success feeds confidence.

  Beryl Markham

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