Top 67 Quotes & Sayings by Alan Paton - Page 2

All roads lead to Johannesburg.

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

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.

Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

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.

I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

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