Top 40 Quotes About Discovery Of America

#1. So,' said Cornery, 'we never know anyone.

Albert Camus

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#2. Cod is more responsible for the discovery of the New World than almost anything else. Drove the Vikings across the North Atlantic, and John Cabot discovered America by looking for cod.

Graydon Carter

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#3. The treasures of Cathay were never found.
In this America, this wilderness
Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound,
The generations labor to possess
And grave by grave we civilize the ground.

Louis Simpson

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#4. But it is growing damp and I must go in. Memory's fog is rising.

Emily Dickinson

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#5. And furthermore did you know that behind the discovery of America there was a Jewish financier?

Mordecai Richler

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#6. When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America.

Judy Garland

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#7. THE BASIC UNIT of writing practice is the timed exercise.

Natalie Goldberg

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#8. I have seen too many of my male friends - no matter whether they're on the football field or inside a church - bash gays and then revel in their machismo or piety.

Cory Booker

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#9. Most people seemed to rate the discovery of America pretty highly; I'd have to say that, for me, it paled into insignificance beside the discovery of my prostate.

J.L. Merrow

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#10. The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production.

Karl Marx

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#11. I don't settle down. I don't follow any path.
Because I am the wanderer and wandering is my destiny!

Avijeet Das

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#12. What I'm asking is will watching The Discovery
Channel with my young black boy instead
of the news coverage of the riot funerals riot arrests
riot nothing changes riots be enough to keep him
from harm?

Jennifer Givhan

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#13. The old rules may say we can't protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we've always used new technologies - we've used science; we've used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete.

Barack Obama

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#14. The price one pays when choosing exile is the loss of all that defines you as an individual. The only thing that makes this immense loss tolerable is the discovery of a self you did not know existed - of a true independence. That is the real gift of America, not its fabled wealth and prosperity.

Azar Nafisi

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#15. I tell myself: This time could be different. I rationalize: It's not like the past can be changed. I fear: I lost everything before. And yet... I hope.

Heather Lyons

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#16. The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights.

Shirin Ebadi

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#17. The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.

Lewis Mumford

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#18. I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.

Christopher Darden

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#19. The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

Joseph Conrad

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#20. If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.

Jean Baudrillard

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#21. It is my hope that our garden's story-and the stories of gardens across America-will inspire families, schools, and communities to try their own hand at gardening and enjoy all the gifts of health, discovery, and connection a garden can bring.

Michelle Obama

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#22. I can be a gentleman off and on. When the urge hits me. - Tran

Krista Alasti

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#23. Eduardo Galeano notes that America was conquered, but not discovered, that the men who arrived with a religion to impose and dreams of gold never really knew where they were, and that this discovery is still taking place in our time.

Rebecca Solnit

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#24. When it was time to board my flight, I took one last glance back. I knew that I had everything with me so it was not a "make sure I have everything" glance. It was more like a parting glance to Philadelphia, my home, America- for I would not be coming back for ten months. (Ch 5- Twenty in Paris)

Andrea Bouchaud

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#25. There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed in Sears' basement. Despite all the Indians on the escalator, Columbus' visit came to be known as a discovery.

Tom Robbins

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#26. The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case of each of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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#27. The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety.

Thomas Paine

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#28. There were three things sought by invaders who crossed
oceans to discover America. Those were gold, gospel, glory.
There are four things sought by aliens who crossed heavens
to discover planet earth. Those are gold, gospel, glory, gene.

Toba Beta

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#29. America; a country that was discovered is now a discovery and making discoveries! America is America not because of the name America, but because of the great hands and minds who made the name America be America!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

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#30. Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.

Bob Edwards

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#31. 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

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#32. Most rebellions and revolutions end up with the oppressed group coming to power and inflicting the same evils they endured on some new group that they are now oppressing, I argued. Violence, hoarding power and resources, that's the basic human M.O.

Norman Ollestad

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#33. People have far more power than they realize, if they would only choose to use it.

Jim Butcher

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#34. What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

Arthur Helps

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#35. Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#36. The purest love is the one between parents and their children. The rest may be more elevated, but never as deep or long-lasting

Siddharth Katragadda

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#37. I was going through the motions of life, instead of really living, and there's no excuse for that. It's not something I'll let happen to me again.

Charles De Lint

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#38. The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Robert Penn Warren

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#39. Croatia is an amazing place.

Jean Reno

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#40. FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.

Ambrose Bierce

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