Quotes by : Beryl Markham

What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough....

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

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears....

The only disadvantage in surviving a dangerous experience lies in the fact that your story of it tends....

From the time I arrived in British East Africa at the indifferent age of four and went through the barefoot....

There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of....

Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there....

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

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

You can live a lifetime and at the end of it know more about other people than you know about yourself.....