Columbus Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Heart, Fire, World

  Charles Kendall Adams (1892). “Christopher Columbus: His Life and His Work”, New York : Dodd, Mead

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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

  Ohio, Mohawks, Mysterious

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Careers

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

  Arthur Goldberg

  Government, Docks, Advisory

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• The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Discovery, Firsts, Made

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 42, 1799.

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• Columbus found a world, and had no chart save one that Faith deciphered in the skies.

  George Santayana

  Faith, Sky, World

  George Santayana (1936). “The Philosophy of Santayana”

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• Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in the Western Hemisphere, leading to their near extermination, and the transatlantic slave trade, which created a racial underclass.

  James W. Loewen

  Race, Land, Two

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.72, The New Press

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• 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

  Thinking, Getting Older, Gang

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• Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Writing, Wrens

  1870 Society and Solitude,'Art'.

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• If you live in Ohio and you don't wear scarlet and gray now, you're an oddball. And it used to be that you could go around town even in Columbus and see a bunch of people in Michigan shirts ... And that's horrible, isn't it?.

  Dave Foley

  Ohio, People, Michigan

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• His bark The daring mariner shall urge far o'er The Western wave, a smooth and level plain, Albeit the earth is fashioned like a wheel.

  Luigi Pulci

  Levels, Earth, Wheels

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• Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

  Lee Trevino

  Dirty, Golf, Gold

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• 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

  Men, Color, Males

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.239, Routledge

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• The spirit of Columbus hovers over us to-day.

  Chauncey Depew

  Spirit

  Chauncey Mitchell Depew, John Denison Champlin (1910). “Orations and memorial addresses”

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• 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.

  Tom Robbins

  Earth, Woodpeckers, Still Life With Woodpecker

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.122, Bantam

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• I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but it is not America. Neither Americus Vespucius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer account of it in Mythology than in any history of America so called that I have seen.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Names, America

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Excursions, and Poems - The Writings of Henry David Thoreau”, p.132, Read Books Ltd

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• 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

  Different, World, Might

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• 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

  Travel, Home, Islands

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• It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Discovery, Knowing, World

  "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1868-1869.

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• In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Men, Museums

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• The Columbus Day Parade was held Monday in New York. Columbus was the world's first Democrat. He left not knowing where he was going, arrived not knowing where he was, went home not knowing where he had been, and he did it all on government money.

  Argus Hamilton

  Monday, New York, Home

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• It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out five or six men, as Homer, Phidias, Menu, and Columbus, was no wise discontented with the result. These samples attested the virtue of the tree.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Night, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1571, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Romance, Stories, Mystery

  Chauncey Depew “The columbian oration delivered at the dedication ceremonies of the World's fair at Chicago, Oct. 21, 1892”

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• The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations. And there's Columbus - he couldn't even get Italy to pay for his voyage so he has to go to Spain.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Motivation, People, Spain

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.

  Edgar Guest

  Wisdom, Knowledge, Sleep

  Edgar Guest (1916). “A Heap o' Living'”

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