Alvar N C de Vaca One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet. – Alvar N C de Vaca Country Quotes Dangerously Quotes Death Quotes Fate Quotes Hourly Quotes Meeting Quotes Onethird Quotes People Quotes Prospect Quotes Worse Quotes Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land. All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.
FoodYung Lean I lived with my parents in Belarus, and I went to Russian kindergarten, which is where I learned Russian. Belarus had just become an independent country; there was no food in the supermarkets, so it looked very post-war, very Soviet. – Yung Lean
RomanticWalter Dean Myers My younger brother’s death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In ‘Fallen Angels’ I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic. – Walter Dean Myers
Robin Zander I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all the time. – Robin Zander
Bahman Ghobadi If I hadn’t turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician. – Bahman Ghobadi
Gary Jennings Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It’s the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did. – Gary Jennings
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