America Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The country (England) which was called a nation of pirates in the years around 1600 would eventually become the pirates' greatest scourge, not just…

— Peter Earle

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw…

— Mark Twain

“With [Columbus'] sailors ready to revolt, land--as if cued by a hack playwright--suddenly materialized at the horizon on October 12, 1492.”

— Ph.D Alan Axelrod

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

“A lot of the nonsense was the innocent result of playfulness on the part of the founding fathers of the nation of Dwayne Hoover…

— Kurt Vonnegut

As soon as you think, 'Pirates are really popular right now with kids so I'm going to write a pirate movie'... that's when you're…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

It's funny that pirates were always going around searching for treasure, and they never realized that the real treasure was the fond memories they…

— Jack Handey

Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself.…

— Marc Davis

What year is it in your imagination?

— Lynda Barry

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either…

— Mark Twain

“After 1492 the world’s ecosystems collided and mixed as European vessels carried thousands of species to new homes across the oceans.”

— Charles C. Mann