America Quote by Gerald Stanley Lee

The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

— W. L. George

America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the…

— Samuel Eliot Morison

If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.

— Sean Connery

America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia" and changed…

— Mike Harding

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it has merely been detected.

— Oscar Wilde

If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in…

— Victor Hugo

In 1492, the natives discovered they were indians, discovered they lived in America, discovered they were naked, discovered that the Sin existed, discovered they…

— Eduardo Galeano

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

— Oscar Wilde

“Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered,” said Mr. Erskine; “I myself would say that it had merely been detected.”

— Oscar Wilde

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

— Oscar Wilde

“Oh, you may be sure that Columbus was happy not when he had discovered America, but when he was discovering it.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of…

— Susanna Kaysen