Christopher-columbus Quote by Helen Josephine Sanborn

So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put…

— Ogden Nash

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

— Sean Connery

“Columbus was not the first person to discover America, but the last.”

— Pedro Domingos

“The crowd was patriotic, and they were chanting “USA, USA.” Of course, the crowd was also dyslexic out at the state university of Arizona,…

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Oscar Wilde

I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America,…

— Henry David Thoreau

America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

— Samuel Eliot Morison

“With no name attached to it, the place somehow declared itself nowhere and everywhere at the same time”

— Adam P. Knave

“The Olmec civilization was truly the first in Mesoamerica.”

— Michael D. Coe

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

— Margot Asquith

“ab Americo Inventore ...quasi Americi terram sive Americam From Amerigo the discoverer ...as if it were the land of Americus, thus America.”

— Martin Waldseemüller

It was for Columbus, when the right hour struck, forced and propelled by this fresh life, to reveal the land where these new principles…

— Chauncey Depew