Quotes by Beryl Markham, West with the Night

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(On WWI:)A man of importance had been shot at a place I could not pronounce in Swahili or in English, and, because of th — Beryl Markham, West with the Night
We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft, and how a craft — Beryl Markham, West with the Night
To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mo — Beryl Markham, West with the Night
We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of — Beryl Markham, West with the Night
There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages -- "Life i — Beryl Markham, West with the Night
I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried — Beryl Markham, West with the Night
The Old Days, the Lost Days -- in the half-closed eyes of memory (and in fact) they never marched across a calendar; the — Beryl Markham, West with the Night
All this, and discontent too! Otherwise, why am I sitting here dreaming of England? Why am I gazing at this campfire lik — Beryl Markham, West with the Night
From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot stage of ear — Beryl Markham, West with the Night
To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In — Beryl Markham, West with the Night
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, West with the Night
Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said i — Beryl Markham, West with the Night
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to w — Beryl Markham, West with the Night
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 — Beryl Markham, West with the Night
A life has to move or it stagnates. — Beryl Markham, West with the Night
The only disadvantage in surviving a dangerous experience lies in the fact that your story of it tends to be anticlimact — Beryl Markham, West with the Night
In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents. — Beryl Markham, West with the Night
To venture ... close (to a lion) on foot ... would mean the sudden shattering of any kindly belief that the similarity o — Beryl Markham, West with the Night
(Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:)"Lion, rifles -- and stupidity. — Beryl Markham, West with the Night
None of the characters in (the story) were distinguished ones -- not even the lion.He was an old lion, prepared from bir — Beryl Markham, West with the Night