Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat. — Robert Crandall Copy Share Image
Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make… — Peter Lewis Allen Copy Share Image
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifteenth century seafarer, Armstrong knew where he… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“World War 2 is the ultimate geopolitical smoke screen, fed to the livestock religiously, with Hitler as the moral decoy, so that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
One area of the Book of Mormon that does bother some is what they see as anachronistic doctrine; that the Book of… — Daniel C. Peterson Copy Share Image
So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
I think that anybody from the 20th century, up to now, has to be aware that if it wasn't for Louis Armstrong,… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning.… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Once we had a rail station in Montgomery that connected to Columbus and went all the way up to Virginia, slave traders… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as… — Dwight Yoakam Copy Share Image
Dilbert: You joined the "Flat Earth Society?" Dogbert: I believe the earth must be flat. There is no good evidence to support… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
When Columbus took off, the purpose was to improve trade relations with China. That problem has not been solved to this very… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies,… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“In 1469, the regions of Aragon (Aragón) and Castile (Castilla) were united by the marriage of Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I,… — Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
The search for the new black is one of the most elusive quests known to man. It's rumored that Christopher Columbus once… — Ashton Kutcher Copy Share Image
There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of… — Len G. Murray Copy Share Image
Tobacco is the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
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