"I saw a boy of the crew purchasing javelins of them with bits of platters and broken glass."

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Source : Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.50

Christopher Columbus

#Broken Heart Quotes #Boys Quotes #Glasses Quotes

“All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.”
“People who haven't done commercials, don't appreciate how hard it is.”
“Since we took to the sky, we have wanted to fly faster and farther. And to do so, we've had to believe in impossible things and we've had to refuse to fear failure.”
“I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best,”
“It was not one folly that Shakespeare talked about. If Love truly is but a myriad of follies then I have committed them all, that can mean only one thing - I loved her truly, madly, deeply!”
“Life itself does its best to take that memory of magic away from us. You don't know it's happening until one day you feel you've lost something but you're not sure what it is. It's like smiling at a pretty girl and she calls you 'sir.' It just happens.”

Source : Robert R. McCammon (2011). “Boy's Life”, p.7, Open Road Media
“At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with your art no matter what comes your way.”
“Telling what you feel, trying to talk about what's important to you, does not make you weaker.”

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