Thorfinn Vinland Quotes & Sayings

Twenty years before, she had sailed west from Greenland off the edge of the known world. She was nineteen, newly wed for the second or third time and pregnant for the first. With her were her husband, Thorfinn Karlsefni, and three Viking crews in clinker-built boats. They were sailing to Vinland, a fabulous land that Leif Eiriksson, son of Greenland's founder Eirik the Red, had washed up on a few years back, when he was caught in a summer storm, sailing west across the icy North Atlantic from Norway. It was Gudrid's second attempt to get to Vinland. She meant to settle in this New World. At — Nancy Marie Brown

Hume argued powerfully that human reason is fundamentally similar to that of the other animals, founded on instinct rather than quasi-divine insight into things. — David Hume

As for that footage, video footage showing the dead children allegedly killed in the chemical attack, it is horrible. The question is only who did it and what they did, and who is responsible for this. These pictures do not answer the questions I have just posed. There is an opinion that it's a compilation by these very rebels, who are connected with al-Qaida and who were always distinguished by exceptional brutality. — Vladimir Putin

The thing that fuels me the most is the desire to be on stage. And singing is the ultimate way of expressing all the emotions that I have inside. — Danielle De Niese

Actors who say they don't watch TV are stupid. I was raised by TV! And it's how I research for auditions. — Rebecca Mader

Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises. — Will Rogers

Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick men
When for so slight and frivolous a cause
Such factious emulations shall arise! — William Shakespeare