quotes about Columbus
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If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
-- Arthur Goldberg -
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.
-- Bill Nye -
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'.
-- Carl Sagan -
Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.
-- Clive BellSource : Clive Bell (1958). “Art”, Perigee
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Chris Columbus was really interesting to watch how he works with children.
-- David R. EllisSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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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 -
Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.
-- George Santayana -
Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual
-- James W. Loewen -
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Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.
-- James W. Loewen -
Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.
-- Lee Trevino -
Columbus only discovered that he was in some new place. He didn't discover America.
-- Louise ErdrichSource : Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris, Allan Richard Chavkin, Nancy Feyl Chavkin (1994). “Conversations with Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris”, p.141, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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When you're playing with only 13 guys, and is on the power play 12 times, that'll wear you down.
-- Mark Richards -
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Columbus did not seek a new route to the Indies in response to a majority directive.
-- Milton Friedman -
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
-- Oscar Wilde -
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.
-- Patricia Brooks -
Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.
-- Samuel Eliot MorisonSource : Samuel Eliot Morison (1983). “Christopher Columbus, Mariner”, Plume
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If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus.
-- Sean Connery -
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 -
I grew up in Columbus, Indiana, a kind of industrial and farmland place.
-- Stephen Sprouse -
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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 -
Well, Columbus wasn't looking for America, my man, but that turned out to be pretty okay for everyone.
-- Vince Vaughn -
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.
-- Winston Churchill -
Should we stop celebrating the Columbus day - the day when the first illegal immigrants entered America?
-- Evgeni Kostitsyn -
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Everybody in 15th century Spain was wrong about where China was and as a result, Columbus discovered Caribbean vacations.
-- P. J. O'Rourke -
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.
-- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune -
Columbus's doom-burdened caravels Slant to the shore, and all their seamen land.
-- J. C. Squire