Top 68 Howarth Quotes
#1. That's why I like babies. They're like beginnings we don't have?
Lesley Howarth
#2. Major Chhetri's pronouncement when we'd first arrived in Nepal came echoing back: Things that start in the rain end well.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#4. Freedom. Sometimes it isn't what you thought it was when you wanted it to start with. When you can do anything you want, choosing's not easy.
Lesley Howarth
#5. Power is responsibility. Don't take advantage. Respect.
Lesley Howarth
#6. I know what nuns are, kind of. It's just I never saw one. I didn't know they looked like penguins.
Lesley Howarth
#7. Blood-coloured bottlebrush trees and scarlet hibiscus looked too bright for this devastated world.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#8. After all we are merely the servants of the public, in spite of our M.D.'s and our hospital appointments.
Henry Howarth Bashford
#9. Everyone's mind was their own. You absolutely cannot change them.
Lesley Howarth
#10. A Nepali outlook, pace and philosophy had prevented us being swamped by our problems. In Nepal it was easier to take life day by day.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#11. She was a mystery package to be unravelled in the nicest possible way.
Francine Howarth
#12. I can do anything. Anything at all. That's the trouble.
Lesley Howarth
#13. Three mongooses, playing chase, burst out of the undergrowth and came galumphing across the track. The leader stopped and the other two bounced on him. There was a crazy bundle of squealing fur, ears, noses and tails. The mongooses broke apart. All three stood up on hind legs to look at us.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#14. Everything would go on, whether he did or not. That was its beauty and its strength. His life, his hope, his dreams. Nothing cared, so he'd better.
Lesley Howarth
#15. In Nepal, the quality of conversation is much more important than accuracy of the content. Maybe we get overexcited about information in England?
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#20. The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They're right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#21. I sort of felt -- frightened, you know?
Frightened of what?
Being alone.
Alone is scary. I know what you mean.
Plus, I'm scared of myself.
Lesley Howarth
#22. I reckon that blaming people fixes nothing. You're the only person who is going to sort you out. No-one else really can - or really cares, enough. That's what Nepalis know - better than anyone. That's our Western disease. Don't take responsibility. Take on a lawyer!
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#23. Buddhist mantras are deliberately deep yet superficially meaningless - to take your mind off things
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#24. The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#25. As I came down the Highgate Hill, The Highgate Hill, the Highgate Hill, As I came down the Highgate Hill I met the sun's bravado, And saw below me, fold on fold, Grey to pearl and pearl to gold, This London like a land of old, The land of Eldorado.
Henry Howarth Bashford
#26. Travel is a joy, full of surprises. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster: the risks add spice, and make for great stories when you are safely back home again.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#27. Invisibility was a tricky thing to get right. It had to do with blocking the way people saw you -- with absorbing light instead of reflecting it.
Lesley Howarth
#28. Maps were so much easier than words. Words had a way of getting muddled, or meaning two things at once.
Lesley Howarth
#29. Here at the bottom of the world, everything was upside down.
Lesley Howarth
#30. The few certainties in our existences are pain, death and bereavement.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#31. I was wrenched awake at the tail-end of a stifled scream. I fought my way up from a deep dark dream. The scream had been mine.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#32. Travel is a joy, full of surprises and astonishing new experiences. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster; the risks add spice.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#33. It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you -- don't you think?
Lesley Howarth
#35. Pools, MapHead knew, were generally green and rock-strewn. He must have heard it wrong. This must be a swimming flume.
Lesley Howarth
#36. The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.
Lesley Howarth
#37. the Lord Ratnasambhava keeps all his treasure inside mongooses. When the god needs his gems and jewels, he squeezes one mongoose and makes it vomit them up!
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#38. But somewhere there was a place they shared, a place where one thought knew the next, so that which thought it meant nothing so much as a taste shared, a smell well-remembered, an echo sounding between them.
Lesley Howarth
#39. When the press and problems of humanity become too much, I love to escape into books, where people are served up in digestible portions and can be pushed to one side when one is satiated.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#40. To some, having children may seem as conducive to travelling as having your feet set in concrete.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#41. Take things slowly. No need to worry about it. Plenty of people moved things and couldn't remember they'd done it.
Lesley Howarth
#42. I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#43. Sunlight streamed through grumbling storm clouds that played like tiger kittens around the mountain ridges.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#44. Wherever there was a scrap of soil amongst the ravaged crags, emaciated trees struggled to cling on: a poignant metaphor for the way so many Nepalis eke out an existence, defiantly surviving on less than nothing.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#45. Please," he said, "you don't understand. My first time on my won. I don't know what I'm doing, and I can't have it on me, and I don't know what's right when you know you can choose and it's turned out fine today, how do you do?
Lesley Howarth
#46. [the doctor] clicked by mistake on the notes of a patient she'd got to know well - too well. The unfortunate Mrs. Swayne had become unhealthily doctor-dependent. But had she grasped the nettle? Had she actually finally and against all predictions left the country?
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#47. The river is such a tranquil place, a place to sit and think of romance and the beauty of nature, to enjoy the elegance of swans and the chance of a glimpse of a kingfisher.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#48. Getting angry and harbouring bitterness doesn't help anybody, least of all the angry bitter person.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#49. Some ghosts tried to be showy. These were the kinds to avoid.
Lesley Howarth
#50. How could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding?
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#51. Breakfast was an irritable business. The clock, on the wall, MapHead noticed, seemed to make everyone unhappy. Everyone checked the clock on the wall, then rushed around looking grim. It would be a simple matter to fix it, MapHead thought. No reason not to be happy.
Lesley Howarth
#52. I'm sorry but I've been on my own a long time. I don't know what to talk when I bump into other people.
Lesley Howarth
#53. And why was I not told of this almost event that might have happened, when it happened, but didn't?"
"Did you even understand what you just said?
Kayla Howarth
#54. Travel experiences are emotionally loaded. Often there is excitement and stimulation. The tingle-factor though comes partly from the fact that we're stressed, just a little.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#55. GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person ... spend time with the dying ... see things through to the end.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#56. We'd incorporated Asia into our bones - its colours and laughter, its smells, its rhythms, its tolerance and patience, its compassion, its lack of ageism.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#57. He always behaved like one who has been deprived of love.
David Howarth
#58. ...But he had great faith in the idea that if you are ready to give up everything to the solution of any problem, you will always find an answer.
David Howarth
#59. He might never hear of them again in his life. Or there again, he might. That was the joy of travelling. Anything could happen
Lesley Howarth
#60. The power to do anything was incredible. Incredibly isolating. If all places were the same to him, where did he belong?
Lesley Howarth
#61. No-one would want to go through a traumatic experience but when you've survived something life-shattering and risen above it, you achieve a kind of serenity.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#63. General practice is at least as difficult, if it is to be carried on well and successfully, as any special practice can be, and probably more so; for the G.P. has to live continually, as it were, with the results of his handiwork.
Henry Howarth Bashford
#64. Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I'm lonely.
Lesley Howarth
#66. Living in the edge - that's what I feel like when I don't know what my bowels are going to do next.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#67. A dementia sufferer effuses delight and notices very different things when taken out in her wheelchair. Such people can teach us to see again the little things that make a big difference. They can show us how to enjoy familiar environments with fresh new eyes.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
#68. I like the way Nepalis point by pouting their lips; they reckon pointing with a finger is rude.
Jane Wilson-Howarth
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