America Quote by Rebecca Solnit

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

— Louise Erdrich

The true America is the Middle West, and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

— W. L. George

America did not need to be discovered because quite simply America had the American-Indians. There were whole groups of people that already lived there…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

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

— Margot Asquith

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

— Oscar Wilde

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

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

— Pedro Domingos

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

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

— Margot Asquith

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas…

— Anonymous

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

— Sean Connery