Valladolid City Quotes & Sayings

He was now wealthy beyond his wildest dreams and wanted for nothing, so Columbus retired to Valladolid, which at one time was considered the capital of Castile and Leon, a historic region of northwestern Spain. On October 19, 1469, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand had been married at the Palacio de los Vivero, in the city of Valladolid, giving it great significance for Columbus. It was only a year and a half after retiring, on May 20, 1506, that Christopher Columbus quietly died. Dr. Antonio Rodriguez Cuartero, a professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Granada, stated that the Admiral died of a heart attack caused by Reiter's Syndrome, also known as reactive arthritis. He was only 54 years of age; however, he had been suffering from arthritis for quite some time prior to his death. — Hank Bracker

The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name. — Nancy Sinatra

For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead of wheat, maize, barley, and fallow, mine pretty much goes clothes, makeup shoes, and clothes (I don't bother with fallow). Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself. — Sophie Kinsella

Reminding ourselves of the gospel is the most important daily habit we can establish. — C.J. Mahaney

What are you looking at?"
"I was just thinking that you're going to be rather happy."
Nicole was frightened: "Am I? All right--things couldn't be worse than they have been. — F Scott Fitzgerald

When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family. — LaToya Jackson

TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story. — Michiel Huisman

Never underestimate the power of bad ideas. They must be refuted again and again. — Llewellyn Rockwell

Far too much corporate stupidity is disguised as cost-saving efficiencies. — Bill Jensen

I don't sign contracts for my books. — Andrew Vachss

Are we fruit of the same tree? No - Angela is everything I wanted to be and never was. What is she? She's the waves of the sea. While I'm the dense and gloomy forest. I'm in the depths. Angela scatters in sparkling fragments. Angela is my vertigo. Angela is my reverberation. — Clarice Lispector

So it was that my most impressionable years of boyhood were spent gazing at not a whale, but a whale's penis. Whenever I tired of strolling through the chill aisles of the aquarium, I'd steal off to my place on the bench of the high-ceilinged stillness of the exhibition room and spend hours on end there contemplating this whale's penis. — Haruki Murakami

I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own. — Andy Stanley

If you only write what you know, you'll never know anything else. If you only write what you see you'll never see anything else. In order to experience new things you must always step outside of your comfort zone, or your live you life never knowing anything new — Adam Snowflake