America Quote by Umberto Eco

I think that anybody from the 20th century, up to now, has to be aware that if it wasn't for Louis Armstrong, we'd all…

— Hugh Masekela

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

— Margot Asquith

“Pepper it was that brought Vasco da Gama's tall ships across the ocean, from Lisbon's Tower of Belem to the Malabar Coast: first to…

— Salman Rushdie

“I may well be a flop at this line of endeavor. Columbus too thought he was a flop, probably, when they sent him back…

— Saul Bellow

Bunkum and tummyrot! You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that. Would Columbus have discovered America if he'd said 'What if…

— Roald Dahl

“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

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

So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put…

— Ogden Nash

Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John…

— Graydon Carter

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

— Margot Asquith

“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

“We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of…

— Susanna Kaysen

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

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of…

— Susanna Kaysen

In the twelfth century the Basque fishermen of Biarritz used to hunt whales with deadly efficiency. When the whales sensibly moved away, the Basques…

— Clive James