We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick fall across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance.
Success feeds confidence. - Beryl Markham
Success feeds confidence.
- Beryl Markham
there are many Africas. - Beryl Markham
there are many Africas.
After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work - Beryl Markham
After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work
A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday. - Beryl Markham
A life has to move or it stagnates. Even this life, I think. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.
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 … - Beryl Markham
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 …
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 un… - 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 un…
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is diffe… - Beryl Markham
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is diffe…
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. - Beryl Markham
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.
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you ne… - Beryl Markham
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you ne…
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