Quotes by Beryl Markham

Beryl Markham

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

Kind

Lions

Men

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 sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.

Men

Water

Years

A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not… I am the earth in the palm of your hand.

Doubt

Hands

Maps

A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.

Ideas

Journey

Want

Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it is a land of moods and its moods are numberless. It is not fickle, but because it has mothered not only men, but races, and cradles not only cities, but civilizations – and seen them die, and seen new ones born again – Africa can be dispassionate, indifferent, warm, or cynical, replete with the weariness of too much wisdom.

Land

Men

Race

After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work

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

Boards

Flying

Instruments

Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands that guide it; the ship would rather hunt the wind than lay her nose to the horizon far ahead. She has a derelict quality in her character; she toys with freedom and hints at liberation, but yields her own desires gently.

Character

Hands

Yield

I have a trunk containing continents.

Containing

Continents

Trunks

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, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

Believe

Distance

Moving On

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Believe

Boards

Book

Bored

Business

Character

Clouds

Containing

Continents

Curiosity

Curves

Dark

Different

Distance

Dog

Doubt

Drug

Elephants

Essence

Eye

Fall

Fighting

Flying

Fun

Goldfish

Gun

Hands

Hard

Home

Ideas

Instruments

Journey

Kind

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Knowledge

Land

Lifetime

Light

Lions

Lips

Littles

Loneliness

Lonely

Maps

Mean

Memories

Men

Moving On

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Quotes by Beryl Markham

Beryl Markham

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

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 sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.

A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not… I am the earth in the palm of your hand.

A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.

After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work

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

I have a trunk containing continents.

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