The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.

Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.

Whenever anything disagreeable is happening in the country, Vera Cruz is sure to get its full share.

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.

The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback.

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

Taking it as a whole, Mexico is a grand city, and, as Cortes truly said, its situation is marvellous.

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.

One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz.

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.

There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe.

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.

During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.

Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.

That the sea is one of the most beautiful and magnificent sights in Nature, all admit.

Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken of the Sea.'

One of the unique things is that whether we were out at sea or in the middle of the water tank, a lot of times you just couldn't leave. Especially when we were out at sea.

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

The bottom of the sea is cruel.

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly not concur with modern knowledge of the mode and mechanism of sea level changes.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.

Direct access to sea is an essential part of foreign policy.

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

As soon as the news of the Cabot voyages reached the King of Portugal he arranged to send an expedition of discovery to the far north-west, perhaps to find a northern sea route to Eastern Asia.

I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing.

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.