Quotes by : Beryl Markham

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of....

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

A life has to move or it stagnates.

We swung over the hills and over the town and back again, and I saw how a man can be master of a craft,....

To venture ... close (to a lion) on foot ... would mean the sudden shattering of any kindly belief that....

There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa -- and as many books about it as you could....

It seemed that the printers of the African maps had a slightly malicious habit of including, in large....

Success breeds confidence.

(On WWI:)A man of importance had been shot at a place I could not pronounce in Swahili or in English,....

…it was even more disconcerting to examine your charts before a proposed flight only to find that in....