Quotes About The Spanish Conquest

#1. During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.

David Roberts

#2. In the case of the brujos, the sorcerers in Mexico, the Spanish Conquest forced them to develop their second attention.

Frederick Lenz

#3. I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it.

Carol Alt

#4. Many people say that time heals all wounds, but that simply is not true. People can become more bitter, arrogant and spiteful with age.

Gudjon Bergmann

#5. O Weep No More For
Me When I Am Gone!

Timothy Salter

#6. The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

Robert Kiyosaki

#7. I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.

China Mieville

#8. There was the world and there is you, where I belong clouds are more powerful than the sun.

Pushpa Rana

#9. Well in the scientific there is virtually no debate over certain things. For example, that we are changing the world. Humans are changing the world very radically, very dramatically. Climate change, which I assume is one of the points you're alluding to, is at the heart of this.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#10. The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.

David Deida