Alan Paton Quotes

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school.

Money is for buying the fruits of the earth, of the land where you were born.

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.

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.

There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all.

Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival.

These hills are grass-covered and rolling, and they are lovely beyond any singing of it.

The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.

Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.

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