Columbus Quotes

127 Columbus quotes by 106 unique authors

Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies. — George Santayana
The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the… — Carl Sagan
A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses. — Carl Icahn
The President wants to talk about a terrorist named bin Laden. I don't want to talk about bin Laden. I want to talk about a… — Malik Zulu Shabazz
The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after… — Woody Harrelson
I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and,… — Bob Gunton
The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the… — Buzz Aldrin
The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of… — Paul Theroux
The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
My mother-in-law, Nanny, spent her working years as a bookkeeper at a medical office in Columbus, Ohio. Like so many Americans, she worked hard and… — Ann McLane Kuster
Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifteenth century seafarer, Armstrong knew where he landed. He also… — Seth Shostak
We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan. Except to say… — Seth Shostak
When we put $4 billion into the U.S. economy, they were OK with this. When we preserved jobs in Dearborn, or preserved jobs in Columbus,… — Alexei Mordashov
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. — Margot Asquith
When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella. — Theodore White
My goals are for the U.S. team to get to the second round of the World Cup and to win a championship here in the… — Brian McBride
I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place. — Stephen Sprouse
There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only… — Len G. Murray
Columbus had all the spirit of a crusader, and, at the same time, the investigating nature of a modern man of science. — Unknown Author
If Columbus had had an advisory committee, he would probably still be at the dock. — Jerome Roldan

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