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.
there are many Africas. - Beryl Markham
there are many Africas.
- Beryl Markham
Success feeds confidence. - Beryl Markham
Success feeds confidence.
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
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…
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…
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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