E Markham Quotes

#1. Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul.

Edwin Markham

#2. As it happens, however, no one in my family recognizes the existence of an impossibility. (We're not specially courageous, we're just bullheaded as all get-out, and the whole lot of us as independent as a hog on ice. Every last one of us would argue with a wooden cigar-store Indian.)

Markham Shaw Pyle

#3. Lincoln, the Man of the People

Edwin Markham

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

Beryl Markham

#5. But that's the thing about East Texas. Red dirt never quite washes out, and pine pollen is tenacious as original sin. You can leave East Texas, for Houston, for the Metroplex, for the Commonwealth, for New York, or Bonn or Tokyo or Kowloon; but you can never quite leave it behind.

Markham Shaw Pyle

#6. The mechanistic age impended over an horizon not hostile, but silently indifferent.

Beryl Markham

#7. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have. (Ky Markham)

Ally Condie

#8. You are the most boring teacher ever."
He grinned and gave me a quick kiss on the cheek, just as a knock sounded at the door. "It all depends on what you me to teach you.

Richelle Mead

#9. Markham even had our banners ready. The polite NON AD CAPITAGIUM (No to the poll tax), the hopeful MAGIS STIPENDIUM HISTORICI (More money for historians) and the always accurate POLICITI NOSTRAE OMNEC WANKERS SUNT (Most politicians are not very good).

Jodi Taylor

#10. Do not go gentle into that good night.

Ally Condie

#11. The two of us hold each other's gazes for a long, unembarrassed moment and I feel that Ky knows. I'm not sure what he knows - whether he knows me, or just something about me.

Ally Condie

#12. Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead.

Beryl Markham

#13. [The lion] began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.

Beryl Markham

#14. I have lifted my plane ... for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure.

Beryl Markham

#15. Choices are the hinges of destiny

Edwin Markham

#16. Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity

Reed Markham

#17. A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.

Beryl Markham

#18. When it rains, I remember

Ally Condie

#19. By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.

Edwin Markham

#20. Markham," I tell him. "Ky Markham." Because that's the name she knows me by. That's my real name now.

Ally Condie

#21. There's an old adage," he said, "translated from the ancient Coptic, that contains all the wisdom of the ages
"Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.

Beryl Markham

#22. A map says to you.
Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not ...
I am the earth in the palm of your hand.

Beryl Markham

#23. You guys think if I don't hear bad things, then they won't exist anymore. But you know what? They still do exist, and I do end up hearing them. And I wish to God that I could have heard them from the people I love first

Richelle Mead

#24. A fine job of work and a fine colt. Shall I reward you or Coquette - or both?

Beryl Markham

#25. Mr Markham, the box marked "Sex" is not an invitation. Please amend the details and apologise to Mrs Partridge.

Jodi Taylor

#26. Human beings weren't designed to handle the amount of stress our modern life loads on us, which makes it difficult to hear our natural parenting instincts. It's almost as if we're forced to parent in our spare time, after meeting the demands of work, commuting and household responsibilities.

Laura Markham

#27. We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Edwin Markham

#28. In the family of continents, Africa is the silent, the brooding sister, courted for centuries by knight-errant empires - rejecting them one by one and severally, because she is too sage and a little bored with the importunity of it all.

Beryl Markham

#29. Conformation ... but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere - in men, in horses, and in women.

Beryl Markham

#30. I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose.

Edwin Markham