Columbus Quotes

127 Columbus quotes by 106 unique authors

Quietly scuttling Columbus Day sales doesn't mean they are opposed to 15th century Iberian seafarers; it just means They don't want protestors on the sales… — James Lileks
In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with a flotilla of… — Wernher von Braun
His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel. — Luigi Pulci
For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World. — Edward Everett Hale
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. — Alfred North Whitehead
Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But… — Abraham Polonsky
I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand. — Sister Souljah
Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space,… — Henry David Thoreau
If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus. — Sean Connery
We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling… — William Herschel
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

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