Things happen for a reason Quote by James Joyee

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

— James Joyce

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

— Pedro Domingos

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

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

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

What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on the faith…

— Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

“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

It wasn't the New World that mattered...Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters,…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky