America Quote by W. L. George

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

— Louise Erdrich

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

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 Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

— Margot Asquith

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

— Pedro Domingos

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

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

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Columbus therefore cheated on his calculations, as the examining faculty of the University of Salamanca quite correctly pointed out. He used the smallest possible…

— Carl Sagan

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

— Sean Connery

America should do a reverse Columbus. The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world's view of…

— Timothy Garton Ash