The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history. — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects.” — José Cipriano de la Luz y Caballero Copy Share Image
“Oh, you may be sure that Columbus was happy not when he had discovered America, but when he was discovering it.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
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… — Bret Michaels Copy Share Image
Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children. — David R. Ellis Copy Share Image
Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Just growing up in Columbus, which is such a special place, small town with a Fortune 500 company's headquarters, the extraordinary modern… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister. It is sinister, though, because it is… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India, but he landed in America. He landed in the wrong place, and when… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I'm still in the Midwest, but I'm in Columbus, Ohio, so I'm three and a half hours away from everybody. That's one… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that when great discoveries are effected, their simplicity always seems to detract from their originality: on these occasions we… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
The thing to keep in mind is that we're still in the very early days when it comes to the search for… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The occupation of America (and Columbus's arrival quite clearly was an occupation, no one can deny that) meant that the entire history… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. [It allows you to] be the Mungo Park, the Lewis and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Marco Polo had been to China; Vasco de Gama had discovered the route to the Cape. The continent was in ferment, in… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“All his past knowledge of nature and of books, all his favourite reading of voyages and of travels which had led his… — George Smith Copy Share Image
“Advice to explorers everywhere: if you would like to recieve due credit for your discoveries, keep a detailed account of your journeys… — Cuthbert Soup Copy Share Image
“On November 27, 1493, when Columbus returned to Navidad, he found that the 39 crew members that he had left behind had… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
“Columbus and his successors were not coming into an empty wilderness, but into a world which in some places was as densely… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I was in Christopher Columbus, and sported its blue badge with great pride. It took me many years to understand or truly… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Columbus's real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
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