Speke Quotes

#1. When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.

Tahir Shah

#2. But of no nombre mencioun made he, Of bigamye, or of octogamye33. Why sholde men thanne speke of it vileinye34?

Geoffrey Chaucer

#3. Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to see there what you would rather leave in darkness, and to touch there what you would rather leave untouched.

Henri Nouwen

#4. Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.

John Hanning Speke

#5. For the purpose of securing epithets at once accurate and felicitous, the young author should familiarize himself thoroughly with the general aspect and phenomena of Nature, as well as with the ideas and associations which these things produce in the human mind.

H.P. Lovecraft

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. My first occupation was to map the country.

John Hanning Speke

#9. 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

#10. That's the dirty little secret of Mormon growth. Lots of baptisms don't necessarily translate into long-term membership.

David Campbell

#11. Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made.

John Hanning Speke

#12. The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.

John Hanning Speke

#13. Consciousness is in this present moment, the awareness with every cell in your body the direct and experience of love.

Matthew Donnelly

#14. The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.

John Hanning Speke

#15. 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

#16. I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.

John Hanning Speke

#17. The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.

John Hanning Speke

#18. How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life
in short, without you, my life is no life.
[Written to his wife, Mileva]

Albert Einstein

#19. In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa.

John Hanning Speke