55 Quotes About New-world

The thing with the new world,” the tuba had said once, “is it’s just horrifically short on elegance.

At the birth of a new world, there will be always pain.

We can transition from being victims of the human condition to becoming secure, sound, effective managers of our world

There was little room in this new world for devils.

This coup de main gave Morgan the means to make himself a Jamaican planterand to secure a knighthood, respectability and the governorship of the colony. Italso, like Drake’s similar exploits a hundred years before, made a deep impressionon the public imagination and reinforced that popular image of distant lands asplaces where quick fortunes were waiting for the energetic and ruthless.

My world had become his, or his mine; it was hard to say

You've got to look after yourself, nothing comes for free and you've got to do the other bloke before he does you. That's what the pensioners don't realise. They might be owed something but there's nobody left to cough up. It's a different world now. The war spirit is dead and gone, packaged and sold off to the highest bidder.

The moment between deciding to open your eyes and then actually doing it is as scary a thing as there is in the new world.

Within a few decades after the conquests of Cortés and Pizarro, the cattle population of Spanish America doubled as rapidly as every fifteen months. From Mexico to the pampas of Argentina, the vast open spaces of the New World swarmed black with livestock. One French observer in Mexico wrote in wonderment at the "great, level plains, stretching endlessly and everywhere covered with an infinite number of cattle.