Columbus Quotes

127 Columbus quotes by 106 unique authors

So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him… — Ogden Nash
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence,… — John F. Kennedy
Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn?t know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at… — Winston Churchill
Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big… — Brent Musburger
Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form. — Clive Bell
And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect of… — Christopher Columbus
If you live in Ohio and you don't wear scarlet and gray now, you're an oddball. And it used to be that you could go… — Dave Foley
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 percent every night. — Bret Michaels
America is now a space-faring nation. a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely comparable was when Columbus discovered a whole new… — James Smith McDonnell
Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around… — Peter Lewis Allen
Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't… — Bill Cowher
I think this is just the natural progression of Columbus gangs. They are getting older now, and they are looking for newer markets. We're really… — Patricia Brooks
My brother was a year younger than I am and he was never in the home with me hardly at all, ... My mom had… — Les Miles
When you're playing with only 13 guys, and is on the power play 12 times, that'll wear you down. — Mark Richards
We are extremely proud to represent all of Radio One's stations within the Katz Radio Group. For the past five years we have worked diligently… — Steve Shaw
I am the Alexander Graham Bell of the phone company, the Christopher Columbus of America because after 'The Twist' everything changed, .. Watch the films… — Chubby Checker
I was 20 years old. I had moved to Los Angeles from Columbus, Ohio. I was working as a piano salesman - a terrible piano… — Michael Feinstein
Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive. — Milton Friedman
Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses… — Stockwell Day
Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that… — Umberto Eco
I remember my first run-in with cops. It took me really getting to hang, well after that, with cops who were cool, and realizing, 'Okay,… — Woody Harrelson
If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans. — Stephen Hawking
Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by… — Bell Hooks
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. — James Joyce
When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New… — Ken Kesey

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