Columbus Quotes

If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.

Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

America has had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.

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

When Columbus took off, the purpose was to improve trade relations with China. That problem has not been solved to this very day, but just look at the by-products.

I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.

Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.

The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.

Columbus's doom-burdened caravels Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.

I'll follow him to the ends of the earth,' she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.

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.

I think this is just the natural progression of Columbus gangs. They are getting older now, and they are looking for newer markets. We're really seeing them spreading throughout the state, especially south.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

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

Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.

What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.

Columbus gave the world another world.

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round.

Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen, and in which almost everything has.

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

The spirit of Columbus hovers over us to-day.

Columbus saved the Indians from themselves.

Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual

Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.

Columbus felt the westward tendency more strongly than any before. He obeyed it, and found a New World for Castile and Leon.

Should we stop celebrating the Columbus day - the day when the first illegal immigrants entered America?

Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.

Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?

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.

When you're playing with only 13 guys, and is on the power play 12 times, that'll wear you down.

The usual rejoinder to someone who says 'They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Galileo' is to say 'But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown'.