Conquerers Quote by Anders Rydell

“You also," he said, lowering his voice, "haven't yet thanked me for saving you from sitting in the flower bed." She didn't even look…

— Stephanie Laurens

The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who…

— Henry Louis Gates

“The first colonial leaders, however, would have none of this. Most of them were military men, trained in the Irish wars. Whatever they thought…

— David E. Stannard

“In the heyday of European imperialism, conquistadors and merchants bought entire islands and countries in exchange for coloured beads. In the twenty-first century our…

— Yuval Noah Harari

You climb to the summit and there is nothing there.

— Yvon Chouinard

I think there's a good case for antinatalism. Stephen Hawking has told us recently that we must colonise space to survive, not long after…

— Quentin S. Crisp

After landing his invasion forces on the shores of some country, the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes would immediately burn his own boats. He…

— Lou Holtz

“Listen in close, Wall Street Conquistadors, you’re spreading like vapor up through people’s floors, you’re moving en masse under the cracks of our doors…

— Trevor D. Richardson

Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing…

— Yvon Chouinard

If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the gold was,…

— Jack Handey

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become…

— Alistair Cooke

What happens is all these things we're seeing – campylobacter, E coli, mad cow, listeria, salmonella, that weren't even in the lexicon 30 years…

— Joel Salatin