Quote

There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills.

Alan Paton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alan Paton
Age: 85 †
Born: 1903
Born: January 11
Died: 1988
Died: April 12
Author
Autobiographer
Politician
Screenwriter
Writer
Alan Patton
Alan Stewart Paton
Alen Peṭon
Road
Running
Runs
Hills
Lovely

More quotes by Alan Paton

Image
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
Alan Paton
Image
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
Alan Paton
Image
Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
Alan Paton
Image
There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.
Alan Paton
Image
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
Alan Paton
Image
Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.
Alan Paton
Image
because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
Alan Paton
Image
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
Alan Paton
Image
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
Alan Paton
Image
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply... For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
Alan Paton
Image
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Alan Paton
Image
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
Alan Paton
Image
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.
Alan Paton
Image
One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
Alan Paton
Image
Happy the eyes that can close
Alan Paton
Image
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
Alan Paton
Image
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.
Alan Paton
Image
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.
Alan Paton
Image
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.
Alan Paton
Image
Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
Alan Paton