America Quote by Louise Erdrich Download Open image “Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.” — Louise Erdrich ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Columbus
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 Copy Share Image
The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe. — W. L. George Copy Share Image
What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it. — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
“Columbus was not the first person to discover America, but the last.” — Pedro Domingos Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus. — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Can you stop your mother from singing to you? Who would do such a thing? — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Other freshmen were already moving into their dormitory rooms when we arrived, with their parents helping haul. I saw boxes of paperbacks, stereo equipment,… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
My father is my biggest literary influence. Recently, I've been looking through his letters. He was in the National Guard when I was a… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Looking at the shape of the world, I see how we're in a time where women are the subject of hatred, fear, and we… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as stones. Very… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The greatest wisdom doesn't know itself. The richest plan is not to have one. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“Delphine began to read with a mad attention when she wanted to talk to Clarisse. She saw that in her life there was a… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image