Quotes About Amerigo Vespucci

#1. Against Amerigo Vespucci no such charges of immorality, cruelty, and bigotry can be brought as against Columbus, and the sole accusation against him, of falsifying the date of his "first" voyage, has not been sustained by the evidence.

Frederick A. Ober

#2. America was discovered by Amerigo Vespucci and was named after him, until people got tired of living in a place called "Vespuccia" and changed its name to "America"

Mike Harding

#3. Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion.

Albert Einstein

#4. I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

#5. You know why I've survived in this job, year after year, lousy assignment after lousy assignment, with no counseling whatsoever? Because I have a keen appreciation of the ludicrous. Also because I have no choice.

Kage Baker

#6. I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

Marlo Thomas

#7. It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

Charles Peguy

#8. Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.

Mandy Hale

#9. Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.

Wynonna Judd

#10. Those new regions [America] which we found and explored with the fleet ... we may rightly call a New World ... a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.

Amerigo Vespucci

#11. I am no longer married, so ladies ... there you go.

Tre Cool

#12. Do you always drink Sprite?" I asked.
"Yeah, why?"
"I want to buy some for when you visit my place."
Bailey grinned like I had told her she won the lottery. If she kept smiling at me that way, I didn't think my ego could fit into the restaurant much longer.

Bijou Hunter

#13. I resolved to abandon trade and to fix my aim on something more praiseworthy and stable; whence it was that I made preparation for going to see part of the world and its wonders.

Amerigo Vespucci

#14. The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please

Amerigo Vespucci

#15. But fucking you is like shooting up, and I don't think one more time is going to be enough.

Santino Hassell