America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any… — Bill Nye 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
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
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
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
The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a… — Ferdinand Columbus Copy Share Image
Though many non-Native Americans have learned very little about us, over time we have had to learn everything about them. We watch… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
The Columbus Day Parade was held Monday in New York. Columbus was the world's first Democrat. He left not knowing where he… — Argus Hamilton Copy Share Image
Referring to the NFL Players' Association: I have one thing to say about the union: It's like Christopher Columbus. He didn't know… — Matt Bahr Copy Share Image
It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World. — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
I've often fantasized about visiting the Bahamian beach where Columbus first stumbled ashore in 1492. Sadly, no one knows where that beach… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been… — Bill Cowher Copy Share Image
It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide. — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
Had the Holocaust happened in Tahiti or the Congo, as it has; had it happened in South America, as it has; had… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you… — Jack Kerouac 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
Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn… — Abraham Polonsky Copy Share Image
The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
