Alan Paton Quotes

All roads lead to Johannesburg.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes

For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for. Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Money is for security, and for dreams, and for hopes, and for purposes. Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Dream Quotes , Children Quotes

Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Pain Quotes , Kindness Quotes

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Taught Quotes , Expect Nothing Quotes

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Goes On Quotes , Cry The Beloved Country Quotes

There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Running Quotes , Lovely Quotes

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Secret Quotes , Dawn Quotes

The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Law Quotes , People Quotes

There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Home Quotes , Sleep Quotes

Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Earth Quotes , Enough Quotes

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Names Quotes , Rivers Quotes

For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Giving Quotes , Unborn Child Quotes

Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Journey Quotes , Sorrow Quotes

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Habit Quotes , Could Have Been Quotes

In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls. Behind the polished panelling the white ant eats away the wood. Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Fall Quotes , Dark Quotes

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find that we are turned to hating.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Country Quotes , Hate Quotes

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Life Quotes , Inspiring Quotes

Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes

But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , Sorrow Quotes , May Quotes

St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Paton Quotes , St Francis Of Assisi Quotes , Use Quotes