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Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.

If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans.

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.

A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.

Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.

It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--?

Christopher Columbus, who said to Queen Isabella, No, you got it wrong! The world is round. You're flat! Never got a dinner!

I have a healthy disrespect for religion. I really do. When Columbus came to this country in 1492 he brought syphilis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, influenza and Christianity. The diseases were curable.

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

If it is the case that you need just a first 11 and three or four more players, then why did Christopher Columbus sail to India to discover America?

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

When Columbus took off, the purpose was to improve trade relations with China. That problem has not been solved to this very day, but just look at the by-products.

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.

I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

I first saw Arnold Palmer when I was just a kid and he came to Columbus to play in a tournament. I watched him on the driving range hit balls that day. We went on to become great friends.

If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat.

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

Even more important than the discovery of Columbus, which we are gathered together to celebrate, is the fact that the general government has just discovered women.

Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.

Tobacco is the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America.

Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.

Columbus's doom-burdened caravels Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.

The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?

I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.

I love it. It's all good to me. Whether I'm performing in New York, L.A., Columbus or Des Moines, I give 110 percent every night.

Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years.

Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.

America is now a space-faring nation. a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely comparable was when Columbus discovered a whole new world.

Columbus was the first to come to the east. Vikings don't count, and neither do all the people who were standing on the beaches and waving when he got here.

I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.

We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of them.

Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.

Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round.

I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.