Columbus Quotes
Sometimes you just can't be afraid to wear a different hat. If Columbus had complied, this whole world might still be flat.
This (Vietnam) was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were the Americans doing here? Columbus had not yet discovered their country.
I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.
Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.
If Columbus in an island of America had not caught the disease, which poisons the source of generation, and often indeed prevents generation, we should not have chocolate and cochineal.
People have called Christopher Columbus horrible, racist, a psycho-maniac killer and a slave owner.
There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide?
The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.
Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.
America should do a reverse Columbus. The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world's view of America.
Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.
Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.
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If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They would not believe that the world was round.
It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we are reminded of the egg of Columbus!
I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.
The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.
Should we stop celebrating the Columbus day - the day when the first illegal immigrants entered America?
If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.
Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.
Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual
When you're playing with only 13 guys, and is on the power play 12 times, that'll wear you down.
Well, everything I am, everything I'll ever be, I owe to my family, to God's grace and to the people of Indiana, and Columbus will always be home.
I'm truly grateful for the opportunities the people of Columbus and the people of Indiana have given me to serve.
There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.
ab Americo Inventore ...quasi Americi terram sive AmericamFrom Amerigo the discoverer ...as if it were the land of Americus, thus America.
Be a Columbus smell the fragrance of the new lands and discover them.