John Hanning Speke famous quotes

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.
-- John Hanning Speke

#Delight #Twins #Instance

The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.
-- John Hanning Speke

#Lines #Facts #Centre

The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.
-- John Hanning Speke

#Lions #Heard

So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.
-- John Hanning Speke

#Dark #Pigs #Savages

I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.
-- John Hanning Speke

#Trust #Sorry #Trying

The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.
-- John Hanning Speke

#Religious #Father #Lakes

My first occupation was to map the country.
-- John Hanning Speke

#Country #Maps #Occupation

Since His delights are to be with you, let yours be found in Him.

Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me

What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean.

love is tied to truth. I think of them as unhappily conjoined twins.

Ignorance is jealousy's twin sister.

in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!

We learn so many things from golf: how to suffer, for instance.

It seems to me there are no rules, only instances; but perhaps that is because I learned no rules, and am only an instance myself.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.