Quotes About European Explorers

#1. All across Africa, the Pacific and the Americas, we find cultures that didn't know about mouth kissing until their first contact with European explorers. And the attraction was not always immediately apparent. Most considered the act of exchanging saliva revolting.

Joshua Foer

#2. For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

Noam Chomsky

#3. Some for the Glories of the World, and some Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come;

Steven Weinberg

#4. I don't believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God's way of communicating with us.

Russell Simmons

#5. There is no sin worse in life than being boring and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.

Paris Hilton

#6. Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

Seneca The Younger

#7. We, like the people of Israel, would like to think we get to name God. By naming God, we hope to get the kind of god we need; that is, a god after our own likeness.

Stanley Hauerwas

#8. People forget to understand your goodness, teach them something new.

M.F. Moonzajer

#9. Music has the ability to comfort people.

Matthew Morrison

#10. Some men are daylight readers, who peruse the ambiguous wording of clouds or the individual letter shapes of wandering birds. Some, like myself, are librarians of the night, whose ephemeral documents consist of root-inscribed bones or whatever rustles in the thickets upon solitary walks.

Loren Eiseley

#11. I'm a Berliner - fast, loud, obnoxious, industrious, brutally open.

Hasso Plattner

#12. I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl.

Christina Ricci