Famous quotes containing the words spanish and/or land:
“Ferdinand De Soto, sleeping
In the river, never heard
Four-and-twenty Spanish hooves
Fling off their iron and cut the green,
Leaving circles new and clean
While overhead the wing-tips whirred.”
—Mark Van Doren (1894–1973)
“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)