Columbus Quotes

127 Columbus quotes by 106 unique authors

Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children. — David R. Ellis
You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you,… — Ella Maillart
Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history. — James W. Loewen
Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in… — James W. Loewen
Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands… — Kevin J. Anderson
Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a spherical earth had… — Unknown Author
If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port. They believe the assertion that the world is flat. — Robert Crandall
Away back in that time-in 1492 - there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered… — Unknown Author
Referring to the NFL Players' Association: I have one thing to say about the union: It's like Christopher Columbus. He didn't know where he was… — Unknown Author
The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the… — Matt Taibbi
Not just Mexico. Columbus should be the home of any big game. There's absolutely no doubt about that.To be able to play in front of… — Kasey Keller
To find anything comparable with our forthcoming ventures into space, we must go back far beyond Columbus, far beyond Odysseus-far, indeed, beyond the first ape-man.… — Arthur C. Clarke
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America. — Louise Erdrich
Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian. — Immortal Technique
Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah. Don't ever aim doubt at yourself.… — Alan Alda
Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's like, how did Columbus discover America when the Indians were already here? What kind of s-- is that, but white people's s--? — Miles Davis
Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a… — Bill Bryson
He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer… — Samuel Eliot Morison
I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but… — Henry David Thoreau

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