Columbus Quote by J. C. Squire Download Open image “Columbus's doom-burdened caravels Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.” — J. C. Squire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Columbus Doom Land Sailing Seamen Shore
Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.In beauty, but do not condemn,The seamen who embark and fail,But only those who will not sail. — John Piper Copy Share Image
“Only three routes of upward mobility were available to socially ambitious upstarts such as Columbus: war, the Church, and the sea. Columbus probably contemplated… — Felipe Fernández-Armesto Copy Share Image
“But though, to landsmen in general, the native inhabitants of the seas have ever regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and repelling; though we know… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
“under the same cross that Christopher Columbus’s three caravels crossed the Atlantic to the New World.” — Michael Baigent Copy Share Image
“The Spanish fleet was beautiful and terrifying. The great battleships were clouds of sail scudding before the wind while their xebecs and frigates ran… — M. Kei Copy Share Image
“He was a seaman, but he was a wanderer, too, while most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life. Their… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Christopher Columbus ” — Tomer Peled Copy Share Image
He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
“(about sailors) Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them - the ship; and so is their country… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Superior, and Michigan possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean's noblest traits... they are swept by… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It did not last: the devil howling "Ho! Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo. — J. C. Squire Copy Share Image
“Columbus was not the first person to discover America, but the last.” — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
I'm a Buckeye at heart. I spend more time giving concerts in Ohio than I do in any other state - perhaps more time… — Al Jarreau Copy Share Image
I remember my first run-in with cops. It took me really getting to hang, well after that, with cops who were cool, and realizing,… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children. — David R. Ellis Copy Share Image
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,… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
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