Burned Quote by Sean Connery

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

“After all, Cortés had no more than 550 Spaniards with him.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Marco Polo had been to China; Vasco de Gama had discovered the route to the Cape. The continent was in ferment, in movement, whereas…

— Carlos Fuentes

“That was the end of my adventure in Central America. By the lakeshore in Granada, Nicaragua, I decided to turn for home. I wondered…

— Patrick Marnham

Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they…

— John Steinbeck

“The arrival of the Spaniards must have been like the arrival of people from Mars to us would be today. The shock must have…

— Carlos Fuentes

“Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat. Only by so doing…

— Napoleon Hill

“Ten years after Cortés landed in Mexico, Pizarro arrived on the shore of the Inca Empire. He had far fewer soldiers than Cortés –…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“America was the vast kingdom of the Devil, its redemption impossible or doubtful; but the fanatical mission against the natives’ heresy was mixed with…

— Eduardo Galeano

“You were a pirate queen who stole a treasure from Cortés and then ended up deserting your crew to man-hungry sharks,” Rose tells her.…

— Zoraida Córdova

Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged…

— Jean Batten

“what motivated explorers? What inspired Magellan, battered by South America’s strange williwaw winds, to hold to his course through an unknown strait with no…

— Jacques-Yves Cousteau