If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
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
“You're like Christopher Columbus. You discovered something millions of people did before you.” — Lisa Simpson Copy Share Image
What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
Let's celebrate Columbus day by walking into someone's house and telling them we live there now. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ab Americo Inventore ...quasi Americi terram sive Americam From Amerigo the discoverer ...as if it were the land of Americus, thus America.” — Martin Waldseemüller 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
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
I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he… — Sister Souljah Copy Share Image
Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said… — Roald Dahl 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
Not just Mexico. Columbus should be the home of any big game. There's absolutely no doubt about that.To be able to play… — Kasey Keller Copy Share Image
I hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did… — John Waters 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
“Pepper it was that brought Vasco da Gama's tall ships across the ocean, from Lisbon's Tower of Belem to the Malabar Coast:… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
[The is] a mistaken belief that [the word Indian] refers somehow to the country, India. When Columbus washed up on the beach… — Russell Means 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
Force was the factor in the government of the world when Christ was born, and force was the source and exercise of… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
“Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
“The Christopher Columbus Aware: This award goes to those who, like good old Chris, when they set out to do something, don't… — Jim Berg Copy Share Image
So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000… — James W. Loewen 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
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
“Soon after Cortez conquered Mexico, the French explorer Jacques Cartier cautiously sailed his ships up America’s North Atlantic coast. In 1534 his… — Jack Weatherford 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
“Oh, you may be sure that Columbus was happy not when he had discovered America, but when he was discovering it. Take… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky 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
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
“If and when all the laws governing physical phenomena are finally discovered, and all the empirical constants occurring in these laws are… — George Gamow Copy Share Image
![“[The is] a mistaken belief that [the word Indian] refers somehow to the country, India. When Columbus washed up on the beach in the Caribbean, he was not looking for a country called India. Europeans were calling that country Hindustan in 1492… Columbus called the tribal people he met "Indio,"…” quote by Russell Means](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/913/russell-means-12584_beach_the-is-a-mistaken-belief-that-the-word-i_3090485.jpg)
