Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Fall
Except
Leaf
Laps
Away
Quiet
Wood
Harbour
Ever
Fool
Forest
Deserted
Nothing
Behinds
Fools
Lap
Behind
Falls
Eats
Dark
Forests
Polished
Water
Woods
Leafs
White
Silent
Ants
More quotes by Alan Paton
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
Alan Paton
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.
Alan Paton
When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
Alan Paton
And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
Alan Paton
And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
Alan Paton
The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.
Alan Paton
Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
Alan Paton
There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
Alan Paton
The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
Alan Paton
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.
Alan Paton
I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
Alan Paton
Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
Alan Paton
Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
Alan Paton
Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough.
Alan Paton
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
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
Alan Paton
All roads lead to Johannesburg.
Alan Paton
When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
Alan Paton
I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
Alan Paton
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
Alan Paton
