Vaca Quotes

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

Rebecca Solnit

#2. Vaca Diez, do not destroy our country!

Evo Morales

#3. I make a bomb vaca frita. It's like a flank steak like with the ropa vieja, but it's fried with garlic and lime. And I make a really good picadillo.

Natalie Martinez

#4. The man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherine's mouth. "Death," he
whispered to her, "should be a quiet thing.

Dan Brown

#5. There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'

Natalie Dormer

#6. What's the point of becoming mind-numbingly drunk if it doesn't even give you the balls to talk to the girl you like?

Sandy Hall

#7. Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.

Voltaire

#8. You make history when you do business.

Barbara Kruger

#9. 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

#10. Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. The cat is in the sack, but the sack is not closed. The cat is in it, but it's open ... and it's a wild cat.

Giovanni Trapattoni

#14. 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

#15. There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

Mark Twain

#16. Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.

William Congreve