Columbus Quotes
127 quotes by 113 authors
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In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's…
— Charles Kendall Adams
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover…
— L. Frank Baum
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I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie…
— John Henrik Clarke
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It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.
— Lee Trevino
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Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa,the aromatic America of Columbus,Catholic America, Spanish America,the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said: "I am not on a bed of…
— Ruben Dario
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Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.
— Adolf Hitler
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Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created…
— Bertrand Russell
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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…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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One area of the Book of Mormon that does bother some is what they see as anachronistic doctrine; that the Book of Mormon has Christian…
— Daniel C. Peterson
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[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,…
— Russell Means
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.
— Bill Nye
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Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.
— Vince Vaughn
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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…
— Rush Limbaugh
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I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion…
— Christopher Columbus
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If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
— Arthur Goldberg
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This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of…
— Donald Cram
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The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.
— Samuel Eliot Morison
Who Wrote These Columbus Quotes
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