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Beryl Markham

"I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the drab and dowdy digger in the earth. He is the uncomely but intrepid defender of family, home, and bourgeois convention, and he will fight anything of any size that intrudes upon his smug existence. ... His eyes are small and lightless and capable of but one expression - suspicion. What he does not understand, he suspects, and what he suspects, he fights."

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.102, Open Road Media

Beryl Markham

#Eye Quotes #Home Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.”

Source : "Nelson: 'Luckiest guy in the world'" by Marc Stein, www.espn.com. September 6, 2012.
“What bothers me most about today is that we're getting used 2 it. ENOUGH. 2nd amendment must go. Violence has 2 stop. Culture MUST change.”

Source : "Experts: Celebrities using Boston marathon bombings to push gun control are confused" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. April 23, 2013.
“How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.”
“We keep grinning 'til the weekend comes, just a pinch between your cheek and gum, all night long.”
“It was Night. In most places, Night is a time for sleep, for calm, and for mystery. But not in New York City, where many things conspired every evening to murder the night.”
“I like RenÃ© Descartes' theory about a ball of wax. You can change its form from solid to liquid, but it's still the same ball of wax. With acting, you are the same person in a different form. You can only be what you know, and you only truly know yourself.”
“It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work in the world is done by men who never taste anything but vegetable, farinaceous food, and that of the simplest kind. There are more strength-producing properties in wholemeal flour, peas, beans, lentils, oatmeal, roots, and other vegetables of the same class, than there are beef or mutton, poultry or fish, or animal food of any description whatever.”
“Let yourselves be led by the Holy Spirit, with freedom and, please, do not cage the Holy Spirit”

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