Quotes About Discovering America

#1. Tobacco is the only excuse for Columbus's misadventure in discovering America.

Sigmund Freud

#2. We shall tell you all in good time. We are men and are able to bear,

Bram Stoker

#3. It doesn't matter how many times you win an award, it is always very special.

Zinedine Zidane

#4. Karo sugar syrup mixed with a red dye

Charlie Carillo

#5. He smiled; I was rapidly coming to the conclusion that he smiled for the express purpose of terrifying people.

Moira Katson

#6. An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.
(America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938)

Pearl S. Buck

#7. Risking the appearance of weakness takes strength. And the market knows it.

Seth Godin

#8. My hope is that flexible working and varying shift patterns will give workers a taste for idling and that they will gradually demand greater reductions in the length of the working week.

Tom Hodgkinson

#9. I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.

Daniel Boulud

#10. But, on more accounts than one, I had had enough of moose-hunting. I had not come to the woods for this purpose, nor had I foreseen it, though I had been willing to learn how the Indian manvred; but one moose killed was as good, if not as bad, as a dozen.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespear and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

George Bernard Shaw