America Quote by James Joyce

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

— James Joyee

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

— Pedro Domingos

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

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

— Margot Asquith

You remind me of Christopher Columbus in that you're always discovering things people knew about years ago.

— Anonymous

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

— Sean Connery

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

— Louise Erdrich

Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul.

— Anonymous

“Columbus's real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at…

— Bill Bryson

Christopher Columbus was looking for a passage to India, but he landed in America. He landed in the wrong place, and when he got…

— Ronald Reagan

“From the Introduction to Christopher Columbus and the Age of Exploration for Kids: In 1892, with the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in…

— Ronald A. Reis

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg