America Quote by Roald Dahl

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” Christopher Columbus  ”

— Tomer Peled

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

— Margot Asquith

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

I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and…

— Christopher Columbus

“Let’s assume it was Christopher Columbus’s “destiny” to discover the New World, and let’s pretend he was consciously aware of that fact. What possible…

— Chuck Klosterman

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

“Oh, you may be sure that Columbus was happy not when he had discovered America, but when he was discovering it. Take my word…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it…

— Kevin J. Anderson

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

“You're like Christopher Columbus. You discovered something millions of people did before you.”

— Lisa Simpson

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Every one of us has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus to his own soul. ”

— Anonymous