Beryl Markham Quotes
Top 48 wise famous quotes and sayings by Beryl Markham
Beryl Markham Famous Quotes & Sayings
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There is respect for a heart like yours, and if its beating stop, the spirit lives to guard the ways you wandered.
Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice
Each humid, tropic day is stillborn, and does not breathe, however lustily pregnant the night that gave it birth.
A lovely horse is always an experience ... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women.
An experience can be as startling as the first awareness of a stranger walking by your side at night. You are the stranger.
In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.
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 have returned.
I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.
No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work, and when you can experience a physical loneliness for the tools of your trade,
Names are keys that open corridors no longer fresh in the mind, but nonetheless familiar in the heart.
A map says to you.
Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not ...
I am the earth in the palm of your hand.
Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not ...
I am the earth in the palm of your hand.
We laughed at some things because we had grown so much older; we were serious about others because we were still so young.
All the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.
Atop their gleaming backs the jockeys look like gaudy baubles, secured with strings. They bob up and down, they rise, lean forward, then settle again.
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.
Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy.
if I were, even now, without either a dog or a horse in my keeping, I should feel I had lost contact with the earth.
If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.