America Quote by Samuel Eliot Morison

America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

— Samuel Eliot Morison

The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from…

— Lewis Mumford

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

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events…

— Umberto Eco

“When, in the fifteenth century, some audacious mariners who had sailed from Europe discovered America, nothing seemed to justify such a venture in the…

— Pierre Boulle

America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia" and changed…

— Mike Harding

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

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

— Oscar Wilde

When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar, and is…

— Francis Parkman

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

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

— Louise Erdrich

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

— Sean Connery