Top 100 Quotes About Columbus
#1. Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.
Edgar Guest
#2. I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.
James Thurber
#3. 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 America.
Timothy Garton Ash
#4. Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist legacy of Columbus but affirm dimensions of that legacy by their refusal to repudiate patriarchy?
Bell Hooks
#5. 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 I sink on the way over? What if I meet pirates? What if I never come back?' He wouldn't even have started.
Roald Dahl
#6. This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.
Donald Cram
#7. When you're playing with only 13 guys, and is on the power play 12 times, that'll wear you down.
Mark Richards
#8. The crew of the caravel "Nina" also saw signs of land, and a small branch covered with berries. Everyone breathed afresh and rejoiced at these signs.
Christopher Columbus
#9. You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat.
Ella Maillart
#10. I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things.
Columbus Short
#11. As we speak, that is what we are doing. Projects that come to you are not written for you. We have to take a lesson from Will Smith, who develops projects he can shine in. We're trying to develop things from the ground up.
Columbus Short
#12. I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.
Stephen Sprouse
#13. I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.
Christopher Columbus
#14. Dogbert: So, Since Columbus is dead, you have no evidence that the earth is round. Dilbert: Look. You can Ask Senator John Glenn. He orbited the earth when he was an astronaut. Dogbert: So, your theory depends on the honesty of politicians. Dilbert: Yes ... no, wait ...
Scott Adams
#15. Sometimes you just can't be afraid to wear a different hat. If Columbus had complied, this whole world might still be flat.
Garth Brooks
#16. Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.
Ethel Waters
#18. Chris Columbus selected him specifically for the part
R.B. Grimm
#19. Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.
Stockwell Day
#20. If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
Arthur Goldberg
#21. Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.
Christopher Columbus
#22. And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect of Mohammet and of all idolatries and heresies, resolved to send me, Christopher Columbus, to the said
Christopher Columbus
#23. I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.
Tamara Tunie
#24. Science is not a collection of facts. Nor is science something that happens in the laboratory. Science happens in the head. It's a flight of imagination beyond the constraints of ordinary perception. Columbus chapter -The Virgin and the Mousetrap
Chet Raymo
#26. I can understand the validity of showing people the ugliness of the world, but I also think there is a place for movies to leave people with a sense of hope.
Chris Columbus
#27. I just want to remind everybody that it's Columbus Day. That all those of you that know Italians and like Italians are the people that might venture on to a ship and travel to explore and find new lands, this is your day. It's not St. Patty's Day. That's a different day entirely.
Les Miles
#28. Christopher Columbus said we cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shoreline.
Jack Kruse
#29. America had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.
Bill Nye
#30. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." Christopher Columbus
Tomer Peled
#31. I can never quite decide whether the anti- Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister ... It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred.
Christopher Hitchens
#32. It is hoped that by God's assistance, some of the continents in the Ocean will be discovered ... for the Glory of God.
Christopher Columbus
#33. No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service.
Christopher Columbus
#34. My desire was not to pass any island without taking possession, so that, one having been taken, the same may be said of all.
Christopher Columbus
#35. Dilbert: You joined the "Flat Earth Society?" Dogbert: I believe the earth must be flat. There is no good evidence to support the so-called "round earth theory." Dilbert: I think Christopher Columbus would disagree. Dogbert: How convenient that your best witness is dead.
Scott Adams
#36. You're like Christopher Columbus. You discovered something millions of people did before you.
Lisa Simpson
#37. They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round.
Ira Gershwin
#38. I may well be a flop at this line of endeavor. Columbus too thought he was a flop, probably, when they sent him back in chains. Which didn't prove there was no America.
Saul Bellow
#39. For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
Christopher Columbus
#40. Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood.
Christopher Columbus
#42. Columbus Day is still a federal holiday despite Columbus never having set foot on any territory ever claimed by the United States.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
#43. First of all, God inspires me, where he's brought me, it blows my mind. To know that He brought me this far, it could not have been an accident, to go forward, I'm excited to leap into the void, I'm excited about tomorrow, the unknown, excited to see what else He has for me.
Columbus Short
#44. Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual
James W. Loewen
#45. 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
#46. Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state ...
Henry David Thoreau
#47. I love Columbus Circle. I rebelled against the construction for a while because I go back to the '70s. There was no Time Warner building. Now I've started to really like it.
Peter Scolari
#48. In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.
Charles Kendall Adams
#49. I have a healthy disrespect for religion. I really do. When Columbus came to this country in 1492 he brought syphilis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, influenza and Christianity. The diseases were curable.
David Feherty
#50. Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
Louise Erdrich
#51. The leader of an Earth organization who makes a commitment to history - of humans living on Earth, to begin permanent settlement/occupation of not the moon, but of another planet - this leader will have a legacy for history that will supersede Columbus, Genghis Khan or almost any recognized leader.
Buzz Aldrin
#52. He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.
Christopher Columbus
#53. THEY NEVER TAUGHT MARCUS GARVEY IN OUR SCHOOL CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IS THEIR GOLDEN RULE
Jay-Z
#54. As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.
Adam Green
#55. I don't know if it was a defining moment. I knew it as soon as I could comprehend the possibility of having a career. I knew very young I wanted to be a movie star. As much as I grew into love of the craft. As soon as I could speak I was auditioning and going to classes every day. It was my life.
Columbus Short
#57. America is now a space-faring nation. a frontier good for millions of years. The only time remotely comparable was when Columbus discovered a whole new world.
James Smith McDonnell
#58. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that
Rick Yancey
#59. Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.
Clive Bell
#60. Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.
Henry David Thoreau
#61. I also noticed that humor was even more of a survival tactic here than in most women's groups. As one asked: What did Columbus call primitive? Answer: Equal women.
Gloria Steinem
#62. Imagine Columbus landed in 1492 and some tribe or another drowned him in the ocean. Would Lester FallsApart still be shoplifting in the 7-11?
Sherman Alexie
#63. 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, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.
Bill Cowher
#64. The disturbance was as the first floating weed to Columbus - the contemptibly little suggesting possibilities of the infinitely great.
Thomas Hardy
#65. In 1487 alone, two hundred heretics had-in one of the greatest euphemisms in the history of language-"relaxed," that is, burned at the stake.
Dogs of God, Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors
James Reston Jr.
#67. If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth society.' They would not believe that the world was round.
Barack Obama
#68. How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before the end of the fifteenth century. Try to get a decent plate of spaghetti there now.
Calvin Trillin
#69. The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only - gold.
Woody Harrelson
#70. Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.
Chauncey Depew
#71. Do you want Columbus to go across the ocean, or do you want to put a message in a bottle and hope that it lands somewhere? I'd rather have actual people be there. Whether they look like Americans or like the inhabitants of some other country, depends on who has the most drive.
Kevin J. Anderson
#72. Schoolchildren don't normally learn this poem about Columbus's second voyage to Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic today): "In fourteen hundred and ninety-five, sixteen hundred people he kidnapped alive." Columbus
Brian D. McLaren
#73. The point of acting is to hide yourself and get lost in character. To play the same character in eighteen movies would be defeating the purpose I believe so I try to keep a little bit of diversity.
Columbus Short
#74. A great many men
some comparatively small men now
if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#75. He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.
Samuel Eliot Morison
#76. Columbus was born around 1492. I say around because before that the world was flat. My stomach also used to be flat, but now it looks like a globe is about to be born.
Jarod Kintz
#77. I want to play Martin Luther King. I want to tell the real story, his demons, his struggles as a man, not just as a hero but fallible, I want to show that side.
Columbus Short
#78. Your failure is measured by your aspirations. Aspire not, and you cannot fail. Columbus died in chains. Joan or Arc was burned at the stake. Let us all live snugly -- and life will soon be little more than a thick, gelatinous stream of comfortability and ignorance.
Myles Connolly
#79. I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their proper positions under their bearings; and further, I propose to prepare a book, and to put down all as it were in a picture, by latitude from the equator, and western longitude.
Christopher Columbus
#80. Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.
Lee Trevino
#81. But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan
#82. Clearly, Columbus never "discovered" America, in either sense of that word. The people who knew it were already here.
Gloria Steinem
#83. Not just Mexico. Columbus should be the home of any big game. There's absolutely no doubt about that.To be able to play in front of a decidedly pro-American crowd for both Mexico games, and to win them both 2-0, is fantastic for everybody.
Kasey Keller
#84. Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
Christopher Columbus
#85. 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 difference would that have made in his day-to-day life? He still had to build the boats.
Chuck Klosterman
#86. 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 them.
Susanna Kaysen
#87. Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.
George Santayana
#88. I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.
Christopher Columbus
#89. I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.
Columbus Short
#90. If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans. - Stephen Hawking
Rick Yancey
#91. Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.
David R. Ellis
#92. Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#93. If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters?
Andrew Young
#94. Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.
Vince Vaughn
#95. To emphasize the heroism of Columbus and his successors as navigators and discoverers, and to deemphasize their genocide, is not a technical necessity but an ideological choice. It serves - unwittingly - to justify what was done.
Howard Zinn
#96. I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.
Sister Souljah
#97. Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.
P. J. O'Rourke
#98. She had gone to the state fair in Columbus once with her sister Clarice and they had gotten lost in the House of Mirrors and Clarice's purse had been stolen by a man who had pretended to be a reflection until the very last moment.
David Foster Wallace
#99. I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses.
Christopher Columbus
#100. The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a round earth, the two most distant points are closer together than they are on a flat earth.
Matt Taibbi
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