De Vaca Quotes

#1. [Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.

Rebecca Solnit

#2. Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.

Alvar N. C. De Vaca

#3. It's rare when there's something we can do for ourselves which also pleases someone else.

John Irving

#4. 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.

Alvar N. C. De Vaca

#5. A man doesn't have vacation problems: his boss tells him when to take them, and his wife tells him where.

Evan Esar

#6. Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?

John Barth

#7. 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.

Alvar N. C. De Vaca

#8. He who is without fear has no hope.

A.E. Marling

#9. And men who do not expect to receive mercy eventually lose their inclination to grant it.

Philip Caputo

#10. 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

#11. I want you to remember the guiding principles of my life. You can be what you want to be, if you believe in yourself and work hard, because anything, and I'm telling you anything, is possible.

Kirby Puckett

#12. Oh!" I gasped. And

Cassandra Dee