America Quote by Henry David Thoreau

In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies, or that…

— Jon Stewart

Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.

— Louise Erdrich

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

— Pedro Domingos

Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him,…

— Bill Cowher

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

— Sean Connery

America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the…

— Bill Nye

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

— W. L. George

“When, in the fifteenth century, some audacious mariners who had sailed from Europe discovered America, nothing seemed to justify such a venture in the…

— Pierre Boulle

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

— Margot Asquith

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?

— Pablo Neruda

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

— Oscar Wilde